Poetry Portfolio

Below are links to some of the poems I have published; please check them out. Scroll down for published poems with art.

A Day in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (published by Green Ink Poetry, Oct 2023)

grief is wider than the sky (published by Out There literary Magazine, Sep 2023) My poem is the fourth on the page.

I have only what I remember (published by Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Sep 2023)

Árainn Mhór (published by Hyacinth Review, Sep 2023)

Poem by Lesley Rogers Hobbs and photo of Glacier National Park

Poem by Lesley Rogers Hobbs with picture of California river

Poem by Lesley Rogers Hobbs — Published in The Avocet, Winter 2022

Maggie - an Old English Sheepdog at Death Valley NP

I love writing ekphrastic poems and was thrilled that The Ekphrastic Review selected this amazing painting, “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso (1937) shortly after I visited the painting at La Reina Sofia art museum in Madrid. My poem was published in Dec 2022.

Poem by Lesley Rogers Hobbs. Photo of Donegal coast — The inspiration for this title came from Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said: “I don’t think there’s any point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.”

Mum’s Birthday

My sister and I are watching the sun crest over
El Puente Nuevo in Ronda. The camarero
delivers two sparkling drinks

then preps for lunch service. It has become ritual,
each year, in a different place, we raise a glass
to the mother she barely knew. Already,

she is planning where we will go for Mum’s 100th.
I smile. The icy gin and tonic freezes
my throat.

Painting by Glenn Harrington, contemporary US artist. Called Courtyard Tables

Courtyard Tables by Glenn Harrington

published by Ekphrastic Review Nov 2025

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