This part of my blog includes poems and places in which my work has been published since I began this blog (late July 2014) through 2015. To make this readable, the newest poems are at the TOP of this page. In some cases there will be a link to a blog page if the poem is already on my blog. If not, then I will post the poem in this section.
(in reverse chronological order)
Come visit Miriams’ Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond.
I contributed a tanka about this beautiful glass fish work of art. Isnt it a gorgeous piece of glass art?
My tanka:
circling around
like the old year
upon the new…
a golden splash
of sunset
Mary Kendall
Link to the original:
https://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/glass-fish-haiga-haiku-tanka-and-art/
Daily Haiga:
Seasonal Haiga (December 23, 2015)
Link to publication: http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/1774/-in-time-by-mary-kendall-usa
I was very lucky to have Charlotte DiGregorio select one of my haiku to appear in Daily Haiku:
Daily Haiga
Quiet Sky Haiga (December 18, 2015)
Link to publication: http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/1742/-quiet-sky-by-mary-kendall-usa
Frameless Sky: this is an interactive journal available by subscription only. It was released in December 2015. I have two selections included, one haiku and one tanka.
first hard frost
only silence
this morning
(Picture #24 by by artist, Sandi Pray)
Tanka (December 2015)
his faded photo
torn at one edge,
lost to the world –
a mother’s womb
never forgets …
Moonbathing, Issue 13 (Autumn/Winter 2015)
like pale ghosts
in the woods
beech leaves linger—
I’ve walked this path
more than once
Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge: Kamakura Beach, 1333 (artist’s choice selection) November 20, 2015
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/kamakura-beach-1333-by-mary-kendall/
KAMAKURA BEACH, 1333
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—Ekphrastic Challenge, October 2015
Artist’s Choice Winner
Comment from the artist, Ana Prundaru: “It was incredibly difficult to choose from so many witty, bittersweet and artful pieces, but in the end one stood out: Mary Kendall’s ‘Kamakura Beach 1333’ depicts the ambiguity of our surroundings and weaves past and present in her narrative, walking a fine line between everyday pleasures of casual outings by the beach and devastating circumstances of wars. I was deeply touched by the unexpected imagery and raw emotions, which made me feel vulnerable and powerful at once.” (website)
For more information on Mary Kendall, visit her website.
Note: This poem has been published exclusively online as part of our monthly Ekphrastic Challenge, in which we ask poets to respond to an image provided by a selected artist. This October, the image was a photograph by Ana Prundaru. We received 115 entries, and the artist and Rattle’s editor each chose their favorite. Timothy Green’s choice will be posted next Friday.
Ribbons, Tanka Society of America Member’s Anthology 2015:
when he grew old
he returned to his youth
dodging the bullets
of wars that
ended long ago
“Swallows: Three Haiku”
Ekphrasic: writing and art on art and writing November 17, 2015
This appears on my blog.
~
Swallows: Three Haiku
frail beauty—
scissoring the sky
on indigo wings
hope…soaring on wingless winds
taking leave—
gathering courage
as you fly
Daily Haiga: Old Leaf haiga published on November 16, 2015
Link to publication: http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/1725/-old-leaf-by-mary-kendall-usa
Gnarled Oak My Mother’s Voice (Gnarled Oak, Issue 5: The Globe in My Pocket, November 16, 2015)
http://gnarledoak.org/issue-5/my-mothers-voice/
Hedgerow #55, November 13, 2015:
Haiga: meditation
haiku and photograph by Mary Kendall
“After Forty Years” was published on November 13, 2015 in Hedgerow #55
you take my hand
when we walk together…
the last leaves
nearly
gone
a single glance
from your grey eyes
shifts
my world—
the earthquake of you
cattails, Fall 2015
[haiku]
rainbow—
your small image
in a puddle
cattails, Fall 2015 (Haiga, “Sun Dreams”)
haiku by mary kendall and photograph by ken ronkowitz
Stone Coppice by Andy Goldsworthy
My poem, “The Coppiced Woods” was a finalist in the Jupiter Artland, “Inspired to Write” Competition in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was an Ekphrastic Challenge. I chose to write my poem about Andy Goldsworthy’s work, “Stone Coppice,” which is on the grounds of Jupiter Artland. I’m very pleased this poem was a finalist and will be read on January 26th at a gathering of finalists on the premises. Sadly, I can’t be there to read it, but someone else will.
The Coppiced Woods
the trees wait
silently—
for years
they wait & wait
one day
he comes,
bringing gifts—
for them to hold
with limbs
pushed
abruptly aside
he wedges stones
into the open hands
of tree trunks,
and they are now
forever
rendered open,
clasping basalt
boulders
in their palms,
at first so heavy
the heartwood sighs
under the weight
of ancient stones,
but being wood,
submits and grows
around, eventually
embracing the stones
and if one night
a storm might strike,
severing a coppiced limb,
releasing the stone,
only then will it happen
that the day
they waited for
all those years ago
has come,
and they are now
empty
once more
Vertigo haiga:
Prune Juice, a Journal of Senryu, Kyoka and Haiga Issue 17, November 2015
Ribbons, Fall 2015, Volume 11, Number 3
First tanka is on page 30:
sometimes
it begins with a slight fissure
hidden inside…
still I wonder
why it had to end
Second tanka is on page 21 (in the Tanka Café):
fresh water
cleansing, nourishing—
letting the earth
grow green
once more
Whirlwind Review #9: Drifting Along
This poem is on my blog.
Link to publication:
http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/almost-surrendered-on-being-and-nothingness-by-mary-kendall
The Poet’s Corner: Disappointment (Tanka)
Published: September 23, 2015 in the Poetry Corner of Colorado Boulevard.net
Link to publication: http://coloradoboulevard.net/poetry-corner-disappointment/
closing my eyes
and shutting out the world
dreaming
of things
that might have been
“Almost Surrendered: On Being and Nothingness” ~ An Ekphrastic Poem
Published: September 13, 2015 in Ekphrastic: writing and art on art and writing
This poem appears on my blog.
Link to publication: http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/almost-surrendered-on-being-and-nothingness-by-mary-kendall
“Drifting Along”
Published September 13, 2015 in Whirlwind Review #9: Drifting Along
Link to publication:
http://www.writingthewhirlwind.net/Kendall.html
This poem appears on my blog.
“Ripe Apricot” (Haiga) in “Behind the Tree Line”, the first anthology of Wild Plum journal, page 54. Published in Fall 2015.
Link to publication: https://wildplumhaiku.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/585/
Behind the Tree Line – Haiku Anthology (pdf)
“Transformation and the Ineluctable Signs of Aging,” a prose poem.
Published on August 28, 2015 in (My Meta-Morphosis Series) by Silver Birch Press
Link to publication:
This poem appears on my blog.
Small poem, “No more than four…”
Published on August 15, 2015 in hedgerow #42
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no more than four, the girl half-skips,
half-dances down the store aisle
her tiny feet spring up and down
in perfect time to the fairylike tune
she sings, the words grow softer,
soft, now a whisper as I pass by
~
Book Review:
A wonderful review of my chapbook, Erasing the Doubt, appears in Hedgerow #36
Published onJuly 4, 2015: chapbook review by Caroline Skanne
Link to publication: https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/poetry-art-book-reviews/ (scroll down to the first review, which is of my chapbook)
“A Girl Who Wished for an Elegant ‘e’,” Published: July 3, 2015 in (All About My Name Poetry Series), Silver Birch Press
This poem appears on my blog.
Link to publication:
cattails, Summer 2015
haiku:
petals fall—
we gather rosehips thinking
only of tea
cattails, Summer 2015
Haiga (fiddlehead):
Ribbons, the journal of the Tanka Society of America, Spring/Summer–2015
First tanka in Ribbons:
what I thought was a bird
flew past
casting no shadow—
I wonder
if you are near
Second tanka in Ribbons, Tanka Café
lost in the pages
of a book my mother loved —
a sly narrator
speaks volumes of truth
while skirting the end
hedgerow #27, May 1, 2015
Haiga, “Petals Drop”
“Sounds of Summer Evenings” by Mary Kendall (Where I Live Poetry & Photography Series), Silver Birch Press. Published on March 16, 2015.
This poem appears on my blog.
“Meadow Song”
On 3 March 2015, Dagda Publishing Company, a publisher of poetry and literature based in Nottingham, UK, featured this poem in their blog. It was a real honor to have had my poem chosen by this excellent publisher. This is what they had to say about the poem:
Today’s featured poem, and the first one in March, is this one from Mary Kendall. Inspired by a trip to Scotland, this piece has a naturalistic theme to it, and we feel is just perfect for this time of year, as we start to escape the cold and dark of winter and crawl toward summer and longer days. Musing upon the sounds of nature and imagining a song being sung by the choir of trees, flowers and the meadow itself, this piece has a touch of magical realism to it, of there being something fantastical just behind the ordinary and everyday. A poem full of the wonder of nature and the sense of being away from the familiarity of one’s normal life, we hope you enjoy this poem by Mary Kendall.
Note: This poem appears on my blog.
Ribbons, Tanka Café, Winter Issue 2015
winter light
shadows linger low
behind us—
dark-eyed juncos
scurry past our feet
hedgerow #16 February 13, 2015, a haiku
curls of steam
a pot of ginger tea
fragrant this night
“The Broken Promise” (Mythic Poetry Series, Silver Birch Press) Published November 25, 2014.
This poem appears on my blog.
Link to publication:
“Icarus I” (Mythic Poetry Series, Silver Birch Press) Published October 10, 2014
This poem appears on my blog.
Link to publication:
My blog began the last week of July in 2014. Poems published since that date are listed above.
A Poet in Time 