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Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves

There are many poets I love to read. But a handful go further and inspire me to write. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of these. I had read a some of his poems over the years, but decided to pick up a book of all his poems. My heart thrilled to so many things asContinueContinue reading “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves”

Anniversary Card

Days ago, my wife Carrie and I celebrated our 27th anniversary. We spent the day together, not doing anything mind-blowing, just enjoying each other’s company. As we were driving, Carrie talked about the excitement and energy of our marriage’s beginning versus the quieter sweetness we enjoy now. We agreed every phase of our marriage hasContinueContinue reading “Anniversary Card”

Cityscapes

My third book, Shadow and Memory is almost ready to self-publish. One of the poems in it is entitled “Cityscapes.” It is a four-part poem that records my impressions of a city our family visited last fall. Urban areas always make me think of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming.” One of the lines says, “ThingsContinueContinue reading “Cityscapes”

Fib(onacci)

Last year, my daughter was learning about the Fibonacci sequence. This is a sequence of numbers in which each succeeding number is the sum of the previous two numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on. Mathematically, this can be used to describe a spiral: Ideas for poems come to meContinueContinue reading “Fib(onacci)”

Welcome

Welcome to my poetry site. My name is Teague McKamey, and I’ve been writing poetry since the early 1990s. However, I wouldn’t say I took writing poetry all that seriously until 2020. While praying in the spring of 2020, I felt moved to put more focus on writing and reading poetry. That led to self-publishingContinueContinue reading “Welcome”