[after watching so much rain fall and then suddenly hit the dryness, I returned to a poem I wrote as a teenager, when I was obsessed with the four seasons] Continue reading
Tag Archives: poetry
New Poem, The Heartwind, Published in Mockingheart Review
Readers, Mockingheart Review has published my latest poem, “The Heartwind.”
Read it here on their website.
New Poem Published in Stonecoast Review!
Stonecoast Review has released their tenth issue, featuring my poem, “Skiing Against the Night.
You can order a copy of Stonecoast Review here!
Review: Solstice to Solstice to Solstice by Allison Boyd Justus
“I can show you the sunrise,” says Allison Boyd Justus on November 23rd.
As an experiment in poetry, Justus opened a notebook and began to write one particular poem per day, from the winter solstice of 2009 to the winter solstice of 2010. A poem per sunrise, 366 in all. Continue reading
Birmingham Pigeons—A Poem
[The following poem was published by VerseWrights in 2015]
Birmingham Pigeons
Allotted a life to live out
And fill out and empty out
That is one life too many.
I do not mean to play the fool
To hear your words as one deaf
I cannot take comfort in this here roost.
My friends, my familiars, my confidants, my compadres
My sweet bosom buddies—
You are all equally loved
As are my kinsmen and customs and hobbies
It does not sit well with me
None of it does sit at all well with me.
I’ve done seen one too many pigeons take roost
Fly back out again
Somersault downward
And go out rolling
Straight as a boat line
Never to come up.
Birds and Bees—A Poem
My Poem, “Impostor,” Published in Streetlight!
My latest poem, “Impostor,” has been published in Streetlight.
Check it out here!
And while you’re at it, they’ve got some other good stuff in this issue.
NEW POEM—The Boy Who Never Laughed
THE BOY WHO NEVER LAUGHED
Was once a little boy
A boy who never laughed
Never did escape no single smirk from him Continue reading
New Poem Published in The Paragon
Hey readers!
Check out my latest poem, Recipe for an Appetizer, and other good reads,
in the latest issue of The Paragon,
a literary journal available online.
(I’m on p.51)
New Poem—Times I Have Let Out A Sigh
[The following poem was composed in 2005 in honor of the demolition of a historic building on the campus of Freed-Hardeman University, and was originally published in the school literary magazine.] Continue reading
