Today
is May Day, honored as one of the eight points of the year by our pagan
ancestors, celebrated by workers everywhere, and, aptly, chosen as the
"Day without Immigrants". Write a May Day poem, story or piece.
Kasey Asberry, S.F.
May Day 2006,SF
Precious, at the edges
The fleeting moment, twilight or dawn indeterminate;
The moon hanging on by her fingernail.
La frontera, encima de la playa, la via lechera alrededor, siempre.
What was a demonstration is now
A sea of white, overfoaming its designated banks, overwhelming for a
moment that other tide, commerce.
Al encima, a glance, lasting the chip-chip of a quartz second.
Containing in it first
wisp of smoke, drops of rain, edge of light
The border, the beach, the milky way.
A tightening of the throat that presages opening of the heart.
Smells
of the ripply lake drifts to nostrils of sun and wind
burned horseshoe
pitchers on the courts just obove
the lake. Sounds of mallards, geese, fishermen and
picnickers nearby. On the courts, sounds of chatting and laughter
as pitchers mingle and greet each other; of horseshoes clanging against the
one-inch, cold-rolled steel peg surrounded by blue clay dug from a hillside;
'thunk' as the horseshoes pitched settle into
the clay; score calls of 'four-dead', 'three ringers, three points' or best of
all calls, 'two ringer, six points' and scorekeepers calling scores back to the
pitchers to asure them the score is being recorded
properly.
Spring
time is here! Bring out those rusty shoes, WORK on your game, meet, greet,
compete. Its a MAY DAY
Lois
Webster-Woosley
!no no no! no allegiance to the flag nor the republicans for which it now stands nor the corporate estates mushroomed all over Amerika and no allegiance to the name and the emptiness within singing how did 1 nation under G-d become the empire of evil? no allegiance to them my commitment is to we the people: us willard
vega san
anto
every month should have a day__ June Day__ March Day__
but I can't cop
out Willi
said May Day and he's the guru of this bright site__
so if I may say__ not ne say this May___ we are all immigrants on this earth
coming out of somewhere into
somewhere with birthrights
instead of green cards or
visas___ if we would be free to move
and live anywhere would it
even out like Parisian one day
Persian the next___
with all the privileges and so forth and so on__
ok this is frivolous
reflection on a serious topic in the month
of May__ that pretty
springtime ringtime__ but hey it's Willi's site
and he allows us privileges
of posting what we will___ and then
there's that other Will__
universal man for all ages__ citizen of the
world__ translated to every
language__ Will we or won't we
this May Day let them all
be__ to be or not to be
Sue Machlin,
NYC