It is really Spring, warming up to Summer. I hope my poem will bring you a smile. We need smiles. Check my events page for a poetry reading I am party of that is taking place on June 9, 2024 at the Tunnel Top Park near Dog Patch in San Francisco. ( not the Presidio … More Caprice: May, 2024 Featured Poem
Earlier this Spring I was on a writing retreat with a friend in the East Bay Hills above Danville. The frogs were so loud they reminded me of peeper frogs in Massachusetts and Upstate New York. We were just back Upstate to visit friends who live in the solar eclipse path of totality. The frogs … More Pacific Chorus Frogs: April, 2024 Featured Poem
I have hope that sanity and good luck will continue to hold so we do not have to go back to preparations. … More Cans of Baked Beans: March, 2024 Featured Poem
It has been so rainy and overcast everywhere and especially close to the Pacific. One day this happened! Spring is starting in San Francisco. Blue West, over the oceanthe mackerel sky is ribbedlike a knitted shawl.Sun flames white cloudsinto glowing alabaster. Drifting east, the rows puffand spread like fingersletting the blueness of skypour through. My … More Blue: February, 2024 Featured Poem
This is the season my hyacinths bloom in their bulb glasses. Some yellow narcissus like tiny daffodils are nestled in large dishes covered with clear marbles and pebbles. Their scent is welcome in winter. This poem is in my third book, All in Measure: A Book of Hours 2020-2022. Bundle up and stay dry for next … More Paperwhite Narcissus: January, 2024 Featured Poem
Like many of you, I try to balance my despair about war, poverty, and loss of habitats for many creatures including humans with the beauty, compassion and kindness I find in my life and in the world. I am grateful to share my poem with you at this turn of the year. Happy New Year to … More Two Roses: December, 2023 Featured Poem
Blue Light Press nominated this poem for a Pushcart Award. Editors submit works by six authors each year to Pushcart. I consider even being a Pushcart-nominee an honor! “Border Skirmishes” is the poem that my Editor submitted. As the fragrant lemon blossoms turn into fruit and begin to ripen this winter, we begin the skirmishes … More Border Skirmishes: November, 2023 Featured Poem
I wrote this in October last year. When I started looking for them again, I was reminded of this poem. Besides, it is Halloween! A Visitation of Bats On my evening walkas the last of the sunset glowseeps into the ocean,I am surprised by a cauldron of bats. They swirl, leaves caught in updrafts,gray motion … More A Visitation of Bats: October, 2023 Featured Poem
I love most of my poems, for at least a while. Sometimes I have poems that are favorites just because they keep making me smile. This is one of those. Featuring the unusual dog delights me. Rarely do I have attached photos but this photo just goes with it. I hope this also brings you … More My Heart is a Radish Today, ft. Dog : August, 2023 Featured Poem
A meditation on the seasons when it is most foggy in the Sunset District of San Francisco … summer and winter. The poem is from the middle of the pandemic when my second book, Cloudbreak came out. Still feels true as I gaze into fog this morning. It almost looks like a blizzard whiteout. It … More In Place: July, 2023 Featured Poem
Heather Saunders Estes 