by Virginia Scholtz
 

 


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MEMBERS and our Poems


Barbara Bache-Wiig

Barbara J. Bache-Wiig is a retired speech/language pathologist who segued into writing poetry after a stroke that hit her left temporal lobe (speech/language) fourteen years ago.
Her poems have been published in ASHA Magazine, Chrysanthemum, Free Verse, Writers' Cramp, Kaleidoscope, Poetry Depth Quarterly, She has two chapbooks, Lessons, 1997, and Marking Time in 2004.
She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) and The Poetry People.
She was selected as UW-Waukesha's Distinguished Alumna, 2008.

The Tree Pose
            Vriksasana

Here she goes again
feet firm on yoga mat
standing tall
breathing, stretching,
reaching her arms out
from her shoulders
eyes steady, focused
on tiny birdhouse outside
she bends her left leg
to push foot firm against
right leg just below the knee
she feels the sturdy
but distorted trunk
as the branches stay out
then ease up to join
her hands above her head
creating the crown
when an errant thought
topples
today's tree attempt

                            Barbara Bache-Wiig
                                     July 21, 2006

Barbara is published online at
 http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/poetry/bbache-wiig.htm


Mary Jo Balistreri

Mary Jo spent most of her life as a concert pianist and harpsichordist. When she retired, she began writing poetry. Today, she spends as much time writing as she once did practicing. She has poems published in Toward the Light and in The Healing Muse.

Her first book,  Joy Comes In The Morning,  was published in 2008 by Bellowing Ark Press.

Grace

Back and forth, back and forth, a mermaid slivers
through the crystalline breadth of ocean.
For almost an hour, she curves left arm,
right, lifts her face to the air, the splayed
red hair to the light. All this slowly,
deliberately, so smooth she seems fused in motion.
Something other, she is the perfect phrase
of a Mozart sonata, awe the only response.
Perhaps this is what is meant by grace,
this unexpected transparency lifting, lifting
until certainty is no longer important
and all that remains is the real.

                          Mary Jo Balistreri

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Maryam Dachniwskyj

Maryam believes in the three necessities of life, carrot cake, coffee, and poetry, and champions these in any way she can. A member of the WFOP, she lives in Pewaukee and has had her poetry displayed at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  Her work, "I Birth Him, Then He Drives Himself to College: Sophomore Year," will appear in the upcoming issue of Free Verse.

Fresh from Pewaukee, Wisconsin

We don't have a cabin
We have a garden
We don't go up north
We go out back

No boating, no fishing
just digging, planting,
watering and weeding, endless
watering and weeding

If we uproot any earthworms,
we scoot them aside, gently,
politely, almost reverently
Little miners, recyclers, plump

with five hearts each to one purpose:
the firm flesh of Big Boys, not bass
The earthworms are safe with us—
we dangle from their hooks

                           Maryam Dachniwskyj


Carol Deprez

Carol has published a chap book, Poem Fish.  She won Third Place for Serious Poetry and Honorable Mentions for Humorous Poetry in the 2008 WRWA Jade Ring Contest. 

Carol is also an accomplished photographer and we thank her for sharing her photos on this site.

Infinity

How many grains of sand
         to cushion the ocean floor?
How many drops of rain
         to make Niagra roar?
How many stars to chart
         before the sky is mapped?
How many descendants of Adam
         before Eden's tree is sapped?

                                 Carol Deprez
                                     April 2008

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Kathleen Grieger

Kathleen is published online at http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/poetry/kgrieger03.htm#2

Janet Leahy

Janet's subject matter includes politics, inner city school kids and cosmic wonder. 
She has published a  chap book, The Storm ~ Poems of War Iraq . 

Janet received Runner-up for "Gas, 1940" in the Wisconsin People & Ideas Wisconsin Book Festival 2009 Poetry Contest.  Other awards include 2008: Honorable mention for Winter Haiku - Free Verse, issue #94; awards from the Bo Carter Memorial Writing Contest sponsored by the Waukesha Writers' Workshop. 


Kathleen (Katy) Phillips

Katy lives, gardens, reads and writes at her home in Waukesha, Wisconsin.  A former teacher, she has been writing poetry for eight years, drawing on her life as wife, mother and grandmother for inspiration.
Her poetry is also awed into writing by the world of nature right outside her door and the world she has met during her travels.  Add an interest in all things Irish and you have an idea of what makes this poet tick!
Katy, a member of WFOP and the Poetry People, LOVES to go to workshops to learn more about the wonder-filled world of writing.  She has published a  chap book, Voices from the Orchard.

Kathleen received awards from the Waukesha Writers' Workshop, Wisconsin Regional Writers Association and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.

At Dawn

nature rewards
the nightly work
of Arachne's daughter
transforming
fragile web weavings
into gossamer gowns of silk
sprinkled with pearls
of morning dew

                                 Kathleen Phillips
                                     May 23, 2006

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Betty Irene Priebe

Betty has published a  chap book, Porch Shadows.

Before Early Snow 

Before early snow,
a certain chill steals throughout the house.
Within, there comes an old, forgotten,
quiet sense of cold.

At the top of the stairs, I pause, listen,
and put the laundry down.
In the kitchen, the hand slicing
bread slows. 

The hallway dims
as if someone has entered, someone
who enters everywhere at once.
The upstairs bedrooms stiffen.

White shadows cloud the air outside
White windows foretell
the fall.  Trees in the yard
pull inward, darken. 

The house withdraws.
The light turns blue.
The snow, released
at last, drifts free. 

Once more, within, 
new radiance enters,
and I find again the truth
I thought I had lost .

                       Betty Irene Priebe
                                          2006

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Ginny Scholtz

Ginny is a nurse with an urge to write.  She enjoys family, nature and pondering life's experiences.  Her poem, "Stubble Rakers," was published in Wisconsin Trails Magazine.  Member, WFOP.

She maintains The Poetry People web site.

Limerick

A poem came into my head
I thought I would like what it said
That notion so sapid
on paper turned vapid
‘til now it is, tragically, dead

                                  March 21, 2009
                                  Virginia Scholtz


Paula Schulz 

Paula received 1st Honorable Mention from WFOP-- TRIAD 2006 for her poem, "Prayer of the Garden Snake."    2008: Honorable mention for Winter Haiku - Free Verse, issue #94.

 

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