Charleston Currents – Palmetto Poem

Halifax County, N.C., 1938. Public domain photo via Wikipedia.

PALMETTO POEM, Mungin: Jim Crow

By Horace Mungin, special to Charleston Currents

Jim Crow where truth can’t go

Jim Crow where freedom can’t fly

Jim Crow where light can’t shine

Jim Crow where Justice is denied

by Palmetto Poem · 07/13/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

PALMETTO POEM: Lady in White

By John L. Byrne
Image credit: Lady in a white dress, Franz Dvorak, 1927.

By John L. Byrne

The moon and lightning bugs dance
between tombstones. Leaves wrinkle
in the sighing Charleston breeze.
A lady, draped in white, drifts

by Palmetto Poem · 07/07/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

PALMETTO POEM: Where Your Soul Belongs

By Matthew Foley, special to Charleston Currents

I know you’ve heard it
all the days of your life.

A voice,
quietly calling.

A song,
for your ears alone.

Over and over again,it has called your name,
pulled you like the moon
calls home the tide. …

by Palmetto Poem · 04/01/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

PALMETTO POEM: One River, One Boat

By Marjory Wentworth
Because our history is a knot
we try to unravel, while others
try to tighten it, we tire easily
and fray the cords that bind us.

by Palmetto Poem · 01/07/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

PALMETTO POEM: In December Artroom

By Kit Loney, republished with permission

Here is how you get filing cabinets to fly:
Begin with stuffing drawers bulge with pictures–
dragonflies, butterflies, all things on wings.

Airplanes and rocket ships, dancers,
sports page clippings of leaping athletes.
Jam more pictures: Leonardo‘s helicopters,

by Palmetto Poem · 12/03/2018 · 1 comment · Features, Palmetto Poem

POEM, Rutledge: On the Fourth Day

By Jeremy Rutledge, special to Charleston Currents

On the fourth day
of physical therapy
the material
turned to metaphor

all of us working
to find our weaknesses
and give them
our attention.

by Palmetto Poem · 10/01/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

POEM: Notes from the Quarterly Training Session

Barred tail feathers, round brown face.
I wish you would wake, wish you could.
In this sleeping posture – lying
on your back (unnatural, I know),
you appear relaxed.

by Palmetto Poem · 04/30/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

PALMETTO POEM, Mixon: Taking up Space

By Loren Mixon, special to Charleston Currents

Good for:

Wandering minds, i.e. I dreamt myself walking down the street to the thrift store, losing my life in old broaches and lessons in a woman’s fading memory before I found my body sitting in a pew—running from a catholic childhood.

by Palmetto Poem · 04/02/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem