Airport Waiting Room

Airport Waiting Room
By Ben Schwartz

Gray seat
metal and plastic
uncomfortable
impossible to sleep
while snowed in
for days.

Fast food
cold grease
warm beer
. . .is that meat?
Don’t risk it.
I’ll have fries.

(I mean
how bad can
a French fry
. . .be?
. . .oh.
That bad).

Newspapers
leave prints
of ink
across my hands.
My hands
wipe my face.

Journal entries
of sleeping children,
lonely women in
red suits and
high heels.
Men remove wedding rings.

Newsstand paperbacks.
Famous authors
I’ve never read
become enticing
out of
desperation.

Call my name
Wave a boarding pass
Don’t care where
I land.
Get me out.
Let me fly.

Ben Schwartz is compiling journal entries and photographs of his trip around the world which he hopes will be interesting to more than his friends.

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Poems for Imbolc

Stirring
By Aileen Conchobarra

Seeds stirring
underground
sigh and roll over
dreams of bursting
forth into
blossom.

Emotions stirring
in one’s heart
sigh and tug
the blanket
dreams of
fulfillment.

To Brigid
By Darcy Arliss

Great, bright, shining
One
Three-in-One
Who blesses this day:
Give us what we crave
The love
The creativity
The healing.
Inspire us with
Your Fire.
Make our passions
Yours.

Groundhog Day
By Brenda Braene

Poor little Phil!
All he wants
Is a long winter’s nap.
Yet on the second day
Of the second month,
He hears the fray,
The yelling, the commotion
Hands yank him out
Of his warm burrow.
Raise him to the cameras
And he pees down the
Handler’s leg in fear.

Darcy Arliss dedicates her life to the gifts of Brigid.

Brenda Braene is a frequent contributor to Circadian Poems. Her blog is Poet Meets Muse, and she is one third of the website, The Three Braenes.

Aileen Conchobarra is a garden designer learning to express her love for the work in poetry.

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Poetry News

Congratulations to our frequent contributor, poet, novelist, and essayist Colin Galbraith. His newest book, Poolside Poetry, launches in March. Meanwhile, The Sunday Herald featured him in last Sunday’s article. You can read it here.

The Valentine Submissions for Circadian are closed; St. Patrick’s Day submissions are still open until February 17. Please note that poems for the holiday anthology need to be 12 lines or less. If you send poems of 20 or 30 I will not be able to use them. Please follow the guidelines.

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