Kate Robinson

Poetry

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"The poem is a confession of faith."

  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

I learned to write poetry by reading poetry
and hope to study the craft while pursuing an
MFA in creative writing in the near future.
 
As a member of the
much of my published work appears
in Sandcutters, the ASPS journal.
 
My inspirational poetry is featured
in June Cotner's acclaimed prayer
and poem anthologies and in her
2006 Everyday Blessings Calendar.
 
I have three poems in two of June's most
recent anthologies - one in Miracles of
Motherhood: Prayers and Poems For A New
Mother (Center Street, 2007) and two in
Dog Blessings (New World Library, 2008).
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Star Child

Baby Blessings
Harmony Books, 2002
 

 

I imagine you
budding purple
in my belly
like the tips
of new iris
 
My days shuffle
until the one
sharp with urgency
lays me down
to whelp
 
Come from song
at sunset
you are touched
with wine
plum dark
 
A thousand blooms
like secret shadows
drop sweet
through leaves of love
 
Tiny fingers
tremble golden
in the moonlight
June infant
star blessed
 
I shall celebrate
the night
whisper-wander
the universe
planet dance all summer
 
sing star child

Wonderdog

Unpublished, 2007

ystery beyond

You staggered into our lives

bone hungry, a desert mirage,

 

gnawing at the edges of everything -

shoes, rugs, furniture, dreams.

 

Snuck into our predawn beds,

stretched out haunch weary

 

for a buddy snooze until sunrise

spurrs a rush bark frenzy.

 

You lurched in fear

from menacing squeaky toys,

 

small mammals, inconsequentials,

but stood fast at roadsides,

 

a tiger-striped Wonderdog, halting vehicles with a  golden-eyed glance.

 

May your four-legged grace

be winged with our prayers

 

in your nose-happy soar through

love-dappled realms,

the mystery beyond.

Revision

The Journey Newszine

SCBWI AZ

Spring, 2007

 

 

Grisly, this business

of literary precision.

 

Poems submit to the knife,

a surgical progression

 

of words carved to spareness,

from whole suns to lightning.

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