Poetry: Telesto

Telesto

This poem comes from a prompt via DS106 Daily Create.

I am Telesto,
a tiny moon in motion,
a forgotten daughter
of the Greek god, Oceanus,
an orbital body
of stories and myth –
forget me at your peril,
for I am proof that
even the smallest of us
can become our own
centers of
gravity

Peace (in the sky),
Kevin

In The News: Baseball Poetry

Daily Hampshire Gazette Baseball poem article May2025

The local newspaper did a piece about the poem I wrote for a friend, with a baseball theme, for the National Baseball Poetry Festival. The article is behind a paywall, so you only get the front of it here.

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

Poem: Sijo

Pencil: Sijo

A palm-sized pencil,
accidentally kicked by a kid,
rolls its way to my foot,
an invitation to writing;
the graphite snaps before
I scribble out this poem

This Sijo-style poem is via the prompt at DS106 Daily Create. I don’t think I quite understood the syllable and grouping concepts, but hey, I found a poem.

Peace (and poems),
Kevin

Poem: Baseball Under Ground

The story behind this poem is that my wife was working on a flower bed under the front windows, and deep down, she found an old baseball. No doubt, one of my boys had buried it at some point in baseball childhood. The poems comes from there. – Kevin

    An old baseball, sunk
    into soil, never grows
    roots, only smudge
    and grime, remnants
    of past time

    Still, some kid here tried;

    Small fingers, folded
    on a stitched face
    of white thread
    and knitted lace,
    dug down into the earth
    with barely a trace
    of which game the ball
    even belonged to –

    a home run hit
    to cheering mates
    or a hesitant swing,
    a loss that grates –

    Some summer days
    race forward like a batter
    running base – you can bury
    the lede, if you truly believe
    in surfacing the story —

    Other days slink, slow,
    a seed for song,
    a game of imagination
    most of us still play
    minutes before the sun
    fades away

    PS — image credit: “Johnson Park” flickr photo by dankeck https://flickr.com/photos/dankeck/53548608010 shared into the public domain using (CC0)