April 2012

bio

    Don Kingfisher Campbell is currently studying for an MFA in Poetry at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Mr. Campbell has taught Creative Writing for 27 years in the Occidental College Upward Bound program and has been a Guest Teacher even longer for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Kingfisher is the host of Saturday Afternoon Poetry in Pasadena, editor of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, and founder of POETRYpeople youth writing workshops. Don has recently been awarded a commission by the city of Pasadena to compose a poem for the City Speaks art exhibit and also won first place in the 2011 Whittier Poetry Contest.
Don Kingfisher Campbell poetrypeople@earthlink.net

The Antique Traveller

read the classic poem
two hundred years
after sandy inspiration

saw those ruins again
what romantic poet decided
to capture of the passed

an attempt to warn the future
so we might recognize tyranny
when we experience it

but the 99% don't act as one yet
this empire's cycle continues
with the reassurance only that

kings and paupers die
buildings and slogans fall
fragments sink into earth

copyright 2012 Don Kingfisher Campbell