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MEMBERS and our Poems
Barbara Bache-Wiig
Barbara J. Bache-Wiig is a retired
speech/language pathologist who segued into writing poetry after
a stroke that hit her left temporal lobe (speech/language) fourteen
years ago. Her poems have been published in
ASHA
Magazine, Chrysanthemum, Free Verse, Writers' Crams,
Kaleidoscope, Poetry Depth Quarterly, She has two
chapbooks, Lessons, 1997, and
Marking Time in 2004. She is a member of the Wisconsin
Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) and The Poetry People.
The Tree Pose
VriksasanaHere she goes again
feet firm on yoga mat
standing tall
breathing, stretching,
reaching her arms out
from her shoulders
eyes steady, focused
on tiny birdhouse outside
she bends her left leg
to push foot firm against
right leg just below the knee
she feels the sturdy
but distorted trunk
as the branches stay out
then ease up to join
her hands above her head
creating the crown
when an errant thought
topples
today's tree attempt
Barbara Bache-Wiig
July
21, 2006
Barbara is published
online at
http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/poetry/bbache-wiig.htm
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Mary Jo Balistreri
Mary Jo spent most
of her life as a concert pianist and harpsichordist. When she
retired, she began writing poetry. Today, she spends as much time
writing as she once did practicing. She has new poems coming out in
July in Toward the Light and in The Healing Muse.
Later this year,
her first book, Joy Comes In The Morning, will be published by
Bellowing Ark.
Grace
Back and forth,
back and forth, a mermaid slivers
through the crystalline breadth of ocean.
For almost an hour, she curves left arm,
right, lifts her face to the air, the splayed
red hair to the light. All this slowly,
deliberately, so smooth she seems fused in motion.
Something other, she is the perfect phrase
of a Mozart sonata, awe the only response.
Perhaps this is what is meant by grace,
this unexpected transparency lifting, lifting
until certainty is no longer important
and all that remains is the real.
Mary Jo Balistreri
Maryam Dachniwskyj
Maryam believes in the three
necessities of life, carrot cake, coffee, and poetry, and
champions these in any way she can. A member of the WFOP, she
lives in Pewaukee and has had her poetry displayed at the
Milwaukee Art Museum. Her work, "I Birth Him, Then He
Drives Himself to College: Sophomore Year," will appear in the
upcoming issue of Free Verse.
Fresh from Pewaukee, Wisconsin
We don't have a cabin
We have a garden
We don't go up north
We go out back No boating, no
fishing
just digging, planting,
watering and weeding, endless
watering and weeding If we
uproot any earthworms,
we scoot them aside, gently,
politely, almost reverently
Little miners, recyclers, plump
with five hearts each to one purpose:
the firm flesh of Big Boys, not bass
The earthworms are safe with us—
we dangle from their hooks
Maryam
Dachniwskyj
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Carol Deprez
Infinity
How many grains of sand
to cushion the ocean floor?
How many drops of rain
to make Niagra roar?
How many stars to chart
before the sky is mapped?
How many descendants of Adam
before Eden's tree is sapped?
Carol Deprez
April 2008
Carol has published a
chap book, Poem Fish.
She is also an accomplished photographer and we thank her for
sharing her photos on this site.
Kathleen Grieger
Kathleen is published online at
http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/poetry/kgrieger03.htm#2.
Janet Leahy
Janet's subject matter includes
politics, inner city school kids and cosmic wonder.
She has published a chap book,
The Storm ~ Poems of War Iraq .
Janet received third prize for poetry
in the 2006 Bo Carter Memorial Writing Contest sponsored by the
Waukesha Writers' Workshop and honorable mention in 2007.
2008: Honorable mention for Winter Haiku - Free Verse, issue
#94.
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Kathleen (Katy) Phillips
Katy lives, gardens, reads and writes
at her home in Waukesha, Wisconsin. A former teacher, she has
been writing poetry for eight years, drawing on her life as wife,
mother and grandmother for inspiration.
Her poetry is also awed into writing by the world of nature right
outside her door and the world she has met during her travels.
Add an interest in all things Irish and you have an idea of what
makes this poet tick!
Katy, a member of WFOP and the Poetry People, LOVES to go to
workshops to learn more about the wonder-filled world of writing.
She has published a chap book,
Voices from the Orchard.
Kathleen received first prize for
article in the 2007 Bo Carter Memorial Writing Contest sponsored by
the Waukesha Writers' Workshop and honorable mention for poetry.
2008: First Place, Richard Swanson Poetry/Prose contest.
"Reading James Wright" published in Free Verse, issue #94.
At Dawn
nature rewards
the nightly work
of Arachne's daughter
transforming
fragile web weavings
into gossamer gowns of silk
sprinkled with pearls
of morning dew
Kathleen
Phillips
May 23, 2006
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Betty Irene Priebe
Betty has published a chap book,
Porch Shadows.
Before Early
Snow
Before early snow,
a certain chill steals throughout the house.
Within, there comes an old, forgotten,
quiet sense of cold.
At the top of the
stairs, I pause, listen,
and put the laundry down.
In the kitchen, the hand slicing
bread slows.
The hallway dims
as if someone has entered, someone
who enters everywhere at once.
The upstairs bedrooms stiffen.
White shadows cloud
the air outside
White windows foretell
the fall. Trees in the yard
pull inward, darken.
The house
withdraws.
The light turns blue.
The snow, released
at last, drifts free.
Once more, within,
new radiance enters,
and I find again the truth
I thought I had lost .
Betty Irene Priebe
2006
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Ginny Scholtz
Ginny is a nurse with an urge to write. She enjoys
family, nature and pondering life's experiences. Her poem,
"Stubble Rakers," is published in the September/October 2007 issue
of Wisconsin Trails Magazine. Member WFOP.
Northern
Wisconsin Town - July 21, 2008
Days of easy cycling
abundant food, refreshing air
Have to wear a bike helmet
Dragon skin not needed here
Virginia Scholtz
July 25, 2008
Paula Schulz
Paula received 1st Honorable Mention from WFOP--
TRIAD 2006 for her poem, "Prayer of the Garden Snake."
2008: Honorable mention for Winter Haiku - Free Verse, issue
#94.
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