Pendleton Poetry

Saturday POETRY Night Live—tonight!

Thank you Coshocton Public Library System for featuring my poem "Forecast" and Holli Haddix Rainwater for inviting the submission. Your photo is a perfect fit ❣️

"Pandemic Spring: Poems to Get Us Through"
Celebrating National Poetry Month with poems of solace, beauty and connection by Ohio poets.

Today's selection comes from Susan Glassmeyer in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Forecast

It’s here the gray the swollen day
no blue no bright no breakthrough light.

The pressed the hemmed the bruised-up sky
the fist-down cloud the puffed-out eye.

It’s wild the wind-up roar the wind
the funnels flung the din begins.

The rage the rain the sirens sigh
the sidelong pelt the grim howl cry.

The crush the welter’s whim reply
it’s harsh the mayhem death wedge wide.

The loss the jar of blooms the marred
the May the June the longed-for star.

Then calm the birds their song the stay
the blue the bright it’s here the day.


Susan F. Glassmeyer lives just north of Cincinnati between two county parks where the wildlife and the land inspire her poetry.
In 2018, Susan was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Association for her first full collection, Invisible Fish.
In addition to her books, an extensive archive of "April Gifts"—a ten-year poetry project—can be found on her website:
http://www.susanglassmeyer.com

Photo credit: Holli Rainwater