GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“CHOICE,” is included this week for Tell A Fairy Tale Day, February 28. The author loved fairy tales as a child, and the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights). The author wrote another poem with this same story in mind, see “Unforgotten Dreams” this site: https://www.singularprism.com/2021/01/04/these-unforgotten-dreams/

REFRACTIONS—an essay by Kathleen Roxby

“THE SHOE REPAIR SHOP,” is included this week for National Old Stuff Day, March 2. The author recently mourned her inability to locate a shoe repair store and believed that perhaps they no longer existed but had become anachronisms. However, to her delight, a small shoe repair shop set up business near her dog’s pet trimmer’s location. Yes, the owner is, like in the memory she reports, also from Asia.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“RESENTMENT” is included this week for March 2, National Old Stuff Day. The author chooses to see that old stuff to be discarded can be more than physical, and perhaps more important to release rather than hold. She wrote this after listening to a couple of friends who continued to torture themselves with pain from years ago believing they would lose their sense of self if they let go of those memories (or even just the ancient pain).

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GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“VALENTINES” was found among the poet’s papers. It is included for Valentines Day, February 14. The poet’s husband never forgot to remember her on Valentine’s Day each year of the fifty-two years of their marriage.

REFRACTIONS—a poem by Robert Roxby

“A River Night” was found in the poet’s writing journal with this note: “From a time of my wife’s youth.” It is included for February 14, Valentine’s Day.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“FOR THAT ONE MOMENT” is included this week for February 15, Singles Awareness Day.

 

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GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“A GIFT OF FLOWERS,” found among the poet’s papers, was published around 1990 in Medley, a collection produced by her daughter for distribution among the author’s friends.

REFRACTIONS—a memory from Robert Roxby

“GIFT OF LOVE,” is included this week as an antidote for Curmudgeon Day, January 29. Though the author left a note on this poem reading “For a friend’s gift to her mother in hospital,” it is just as likely the author used the love of his own mother when writing this selection.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“WATCH OUT” is included this month for January 29, Curmudgeons Day. The author began this in jest, but poems tend to run away with their authors. This one did just that.

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“THE INTERNAL CRY,” found among the poet’s papers, and is included this week for World Blue Monday, January 15.

REFRACTIONS—a poem by Robert Roxby

“HELPLESS”. The poet wrote this when his wife was in hospital having suffered a stroke which took her voice. It is included this week for World Blue Monday, January 15.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“WEATHERING WINTER,” like the other two poems this week, this one is included for January 15 World Blue Monday.

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“QUESTION,” was first published in the author’s collection GLASS RAIN, GOLDEN RAIN in 1990. When still a child, the author studied the night skies of her home in West Virginia, read all the Greek and Roman myths linked to them. As an adult, she added stories from Asia. Long a fan of science-fiction, the reality of space travel witnessed vicariously via television fascinated her making her wish she, too, might fly among the stars. This poem is included for Science-Fiction day, January 2.

KALEIDOSCOPE—from a series by Kathleen Roxby on the English language

“JANUS WORDS,” like January and the Roman god Janus, can lead you in two different directions. The author lists a few to illustrate the problems facing people new to English. It is included this week for Trivia Day, January 4.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“THE VIGIL” is included this week as a nod to Science-Fiction day, January 2, and to accompany the poem by Margaret Roxby.