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
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
I Am a Country Girl, But: June, 2023 Featured Poem There has been so much negative press recently about San Francisco. I can not help but think it is written with a touch of gloating. Even my mother, who lived in New England and thought snow and ice was good for her, would say it … More Poetry Reading In-Person. Love to see you!
I hope you are having happy holidays. This is a special time time with family and friends, past and present. My birthday was a big one this year! Of course, a poem. I wish for you and yours a marvelous New Year and for the world, a year of peace and justice. Thank you for … More Turning Seventy — December, 2022 Featured Poem
This is a season when people bring bouquets to hosts and hostesses. This was an unexpected and delightful gift from our housemate. Happy Holiday season to you all! A Petal Moves, Then Another She brought me flowers,a bouquet of fuchsia anemones.Elegant stems covered in soft downlengthen up to ferny ruffs framing faceslike a cluster of … More A Petal Moves––November, 2022 Featured Poem
Growing up in New England, over 50 miles from the ocean, fog was rare and exotic weather when I was growing up. My Dad would tell me about the pea soup fog in London and I imagined getting lost. Living in San Francisco, 2 miles from the ocean fog is a very frequent visitor and … More The Fog Speaks –– October, 2022 Featured Poem
Heather Saunders Estes 