Poetry Breakfast would like to congratulate the following poets. Though it was difficult for us to choose only six poems to nominate for the Best of the Net Award, we narrowed it down to these: Birthday Present by Joan McNerney By... Continue Reading →
June There are too many clocks and not enough time. I will take and keep this minute for myself. This minute of mercury this swift summer night as sleepless stars glide through the sky in aerial ballet. About... Continue Reading →
Birthday Present I wanted to bring back the best gift from the country for you, just for you. I wanted to. Some sky would be nice, lots of lovely sky with light fleecy clouds. So I rushed through stores and... Continue Reading →
Blown Away by Joan McNerney I'm gonna have lunch with the sky. It's been way too long since we got together. I'll run downstairs through hallways into bursts of blue. Perhaps never return to work, words, paper clips, bookshelves. Who... Continue Reading →
Virtual Love by Joan McNerney A long slim poem full of hyperbole and alliteration drifted into the wrong e-mail box. There she met an erudite rich text format manual. They became attached. Her fleeting metaphors lifting his technical jargon. They... Continue Reading →
Scarves by Joan McNerney I want to make scarves from the sky. Since I’m not much of a seamstress, here’s hoping it won’t be too hard. To start I’ll just pick up a fleecy white cloud to cover my neck.... Continue Reading →
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