Author Archives: magn8717

        Starting Over was the theme of this year’s Friends of the West Roxbury Library Poetry Contest.  Here’s my contribution that won honorable mention for the second year in a row!!!   Starting Over   Starting over whether I like … Continue reading →

You plant a tree for the next generation. You plant tomatoes for this one! I’d like to take credit for first half of that quote, but I can’t. However, I can say the second half of the quote is is … Continue reading →

By the light of an argent moon, I sit in the dark with my cat Quiet Rustle, looking out at the drive way and yard. Many times we’ve done this, late at night when we can’t sleep.   The difference is … Continue reading →

Another effort for  National Poetry Month!!! Spring Part 2 In morning darkness a mockingbird is first to break the stillness rousing me from my bed to go out in the yard groggily wondering what tree he calls from beckoning  a … Continue reading →

Here’s my latest effort for  National Poetry Month!!! Spring Part 1 rain came anyway flowing over incipient buds gurgling down black-slick tree-trunks puddling amidst tufts of sprouting vivid green grass right on time despite my forgetting copyright 2021 Christopher Donahue

  like ice chunks drifting a flotilla of white swans winter becomes spring copyright 2021 Christopher Donahue

  winter’s icy grasp freezing cold discouragement then spring’s first green buds copyright 2021 Christopher Donahue

  Dark cold starry nights Dazzling snow white sky blue days Winter’s grip ’till spring copyright 2021 Christopher Donahue

let February be February let the second month do it’s thing let it snow snow snow let it make me late for work let it make me happy with snow covered fields  blue skies and frigid starry nights Let February … Continue reading →

Last January seems almost a lifetime ago. Covid hadn’t struck yet and my wife and I were about to take down the Christmas tree. It was almost February and we were ready. But looking under the tree, we noticed Felix … Continue reading →