Pilgrim & his poems
Pacific Northwest poet Timothy Pilgrim welcomes you! Choose from links below (or above) to explore more than 160 published poems -- and more than 125 poems under revision:
Pilgrim's older poems
Pilgrim is associate professor of journalism at Western Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham.
Poems linked just above are at his WWU cloud site -- Tim Pilgrim -- poet & teacher.TimothyPilgrim.org will soon host all Pilgrim's poetry (along with his photos) -- click Timothy Pilgrim published poems at the upper right. The poems will be grouped by year, beginning with 2013 and then older published poems.
Enjoy -- and thanks for visiting!
Poem of the month
Final say
Boy, backpack holding Glock at school,
brought the pistol out and blew away
an armed classroom intruder
before he could gun down students.
The youth fled, hands over head,
running out with the others,
but was shot by a police sniper
who saw he held a pistol.
The sniper was then shot to death
by an outraged parent who had come
to save his only son. Soon after,
the father was shot by a passing priest,
who himself was shot from above
before he could even say last rites.
Timothy Pilgrim
(copyrighted Timothy Pilgrim photo: self-portrait at Zion National Park.)