Stars are totally beyond our control. What I do or do not do with stars I don’t have to feel responsible or guilty. Politics, climate, 42 million people not getting SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), wars, my latest aches and pains – just not of interest to stars. The accompanying photo of mine is not … More Stars In Our Eyes: October, 2025 Featured Poem
It is almost October and I start looking for our annual bats. This is a little early for Halloween but I thought you might enjoy this poem. In other news, I am working on my fourth poetry book! Hope to have it out in 2026. The working title is Cadence, or possibly Crosswinds or Lexicon … More Dreams of Bats: September, 2025 Featured Poem
These amazed me when we first moved out to the west. I find them beautiful and a bit humorous. Almost gone from my neighbor’s yard as the weather becomes Autumn in earnest, but August is their moment and all eyes are on them. Naked Ladies A burlesque of pink lilies, stand erect,stems leaf-less, unashamed, rebellious,like … More Naked Ladies: August, 2025 Featured Poem
I continue to be amused and amazed by the fog here in the Sunset District of San Francisco. It is so unlike anything I grew up with in New England forests and farms far from the ocean. It now summer and prime fog time. We watch tourists lulled by brief Thhours of sun suddenly shivering … More Mist and Silver: June, 2025 Featured Poem
This is an old poem of mine, 2022, from before my recent book was published. A couple teachers/editors have seemed to consider it too sentimental or were concerned by the unabashed anthropomorphism which is frequently thought to be tacky or at least uncool. Yet, I love it and this is my blog and I get … More A Gladness: April, 2025 Featured Poem
Happy New Year my friends! My husband and I spend time planning our objectives and goals for the new year during this time It is kind of like a date! We have been doing it for decades. We have seen plans and policies, personal and political, come and go. So I am in the mood … More A New Year – 2023: December, 2024 Featured Poem
They come more often in autumn. No doubt they are inspired by nearby apple and pear trees heavy with fruit. However, like the fog, we never know when they will come and go. I read that some kinds of urban parrots have populations larger than the remaining, dwindling numbers of birds in their ancestral jungle … More Green Angels: September, 2024 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
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
Lilacs are special flowers for me. I grew up with three shades of lilac bushes around our house. They come in lilac-lilac, deep purple and white and smell ever so slightly different, or so I imagined. T.S.Eliot’s poems made an early impression on me and I appreciated his use of lilacs evoking the wild, mystical, … More What Did The Scrub Jay Notice?Featured Poem for February, 2022
Heather Saunders Estes 