Poem/a/day: Beach Stars

Beach StarsTo: John

Wishing

you

pails

of

beach

stars

I

see

you

in

blue

green

beach

star

poems

.

.

.

in

the

unspoken

patted

pails

of

periwinkle

word

waves

.

.

.

.

I

see

you

in

the

shoveled

smoking

sapphire

sands

.

.

.

.

in

the

powdered

palettes

of

puffing

indigo

stars

.

.

I

see

you

dancing

on

emerald

ink

bottle

blue

shamrock

sand

cakes.

.

.

I

see

you

tossing

twisting

twirling

turquoise

blue

ribbons

of

beach

star

poems

over

your

shores

Nancy Allen tonight.

June 13, 2009

My name is Nancy Allen. I started writing poetry in the fall of 2006. I started a common journal at Eve’s House in Lansing, MI to offer words of encouragement, hope, and healing for women who are survivors of domestic violence. Our words are like fireflies in the night. When things seem the darkest, one word of hope can light up our lives just as the firefly lights up the night. May our words bring strength, beauty and hope for a brighter tomorrow…Nancy

Bill Castanier

Bill Castanier has been an award-wining weekly newspaper editor, advertising and public relations executive in his 40 year career. In addition, he has been an executive with a newspaper trade association and founded Michigan’s first technology association, I-TE@M. He writes a weekly newspaper feature on Michigan authors and is on the Board of the Kerrytown BookFest and the Michigan Notable Book Awards. He has the only daily blog on Michigan literature (Mittenlit) and founded Spartanpodcast.com.

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