THANK YOU TO EDITORS STACIA LYNN REYNOLDS AND NILAVRONILL SHOOVRO FOR PUBLISHING MY WORK ALONG WITH MANY OTHER TALENTED POETS.

OPA ANTHOLOGY
of Spiritual Poetry
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Beyond Borders

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THANK YOU TO EDITOR MARK ANTONY ROSSI FOR NOMINATING THIS POEM FOR THE BEST OF THE NET. I AM HONORED AND HUMBLED BY THIS RECOGNITION OF MY WORK. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO READS AND SUPPORTS MY POETRY.

THANK YOU TO EDITOR MARK ANTONY ROSSI FOR NOMINATING THIS POEM FOR THE BEST OF THE NET.  I AM HONORED AND HUMBLED BY THIS RECOGNITION OF MY WORK.  THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO READS AND SUPPORTS MY POETRY.

THE VALUE OF SHADOWS

The Value of Shadows

 

The remains of the night’s rain lay soggy upon

the waterlogged branches of limp, bowed trees,

appearing as the hunched, angled, stooped

backs of many old men walking here.

 

I caught a shape in the mist that

reminded me of you, or

perhaps I was just imagining

you and your soldiers returning

to the spot you had fought so hard to hold.

 

As the sun peeked through,

I remembered these were only trees,

although I gratefully recall it was here,

sixty years ago,

that your battalion won the day.

Thank you very much to Editor Amit Parmessur of The Pangolin Review for publishing "Movie Star" today.

https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com/mypoetrysite/current-issue

Movie Star

How can I know,

while the sun and moon

shift height and bright,

that you will not alter

and become other than

what you were yesterday?

I will know you are my actor

when the reel I see

plays the same

each time it rolls.

I will know you are my constant

when I can take stock of your lines

and be convinced they are not being spoken

as the voice of a ghost.

Stay with me and speak only truth.

Stay with me and comport yourself

in honest form.

Let the heavenly bodies reverse themselves instead.

RETRIBUTION

A huge thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing two of my poems in the July issue of Ariel Chart.

RETRIBUTION

 

 

Retribution

 

I watch them hang him,

this disgraced wretch,

now dangling from the gallows.

His death-the consequence

of his violent ways,

his debt to his victim

finally paid in full.

On this day, 

nothing could take away my smile,

as I fade back into the ether.

LOVE TO THE DAWNERS

Love to the Dawners

 

You only fit in where you belong,

Don't waste energy singing wrong songs.

Against the body, you’re outlier, fringe,

To pull off, cast away, scrap inch by inch.

For at the close, the old adage is true,

Not everyone sees from your point of view.

Thank you whole bunches to Editor Lanning Russell for including the ad for my first poetry collection in Issue 4 of Event Horizon.  A great magazine, well worth the read.

https://eventhorizonmagazine.com

Thank you to Editors Nina D'Arcangela, Julianne Snow, and Lee Forman for publishing my short fiction "The Bargain."

Thank you to Editor Sandy Benitez for publishing "Memory" in this beautiful anthology.