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By TBeaulieu
Forgotten
Parched flowers melt into
A puddle of soft velvet
Lapping broken earth
Remembered
Drops soak into loam
Engorging stems, leaves, petals
Rise to taste the sun
Jennette Green writes sweet romance with a touch of spice. She fell in love with writing as a child and filled notebooks with stories. Her books have received “Reader’s Favorite Hero,” “Reviewer’s Choice Award” and more. She writes contemporary, historical, sci-fi and fantasy romance
By TBeaulieu
I’ve ended up closer to Death Valley than to
The cornucopia fields of San Joaquin
Even though I’ve said I’m halfway between them
I’m sliding down the sandy slopes eastward,
After two plus years in isolation, I’m in the desert
Where word-devils spin my poems up
Into the blinding sunlight which hurts my
Pale blue eyes that linger away from the blank page.
So much to write about – relief fund fraud, rents doubling
Legal loopholes that spiral out to lasso the edge-walkers
The opportunists, and survivors of poverty, laziness, bad luck, razors
Because if you understand the system there is more bounty
If you can’t climb up to the high road you don’t take it
I’m fortunate to be a spectator of this bottom feeding
And write about it, and whine about how the tiny tornadoes
Steal my words, up and away, even as they sparkle in the dust.
Dianne M. Buxton’s poetry can be seen in Poemicglobal, Caveat Lector, The Griffin, Sanskrit, and The Pathway To The Heart anthology . A graduate of the National Ballet School of Canada and an alumni of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in NYC, she retired from performance and teaching in the dance world and now writes.
By TBeaulieu
“True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives color and scent to a flower.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.
By TBeaulieu
Being walkers with the dawn and morning
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness,
Being walkers with the sun and morning.
Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright. He is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.
By TBeaulieu
I.
Winter? Spring? Who knows?
White buds from the plumtrees wing
And mingle with the snows.
No blue skies these flowers bring,
Yet their fragrance augurs Spring.
II.
Oh, were the white waves,
Far on the glimmering sea
That the moonshine laves,
Dream flowers drifting to me,—
I would cull them, love, for thee.
III.
Moon, somnolent, white,
Mirrored in a waveless sea,
What fickle mood of night
Urged thee from heaven to flee
And live in the dawnlit sea?
IV.
Like mist on the leas,
Fall gently, oh rain of Spring
On the orange trees
That to Ume’s casement cling—
Perchance, she’ll hear the love-bird sing.
V.
Though love has grown cold
The woods are bright with flowers,
Why not as of old
Go to the wildwood bowers
And dream of–bygone hours!
VI.
Tell, what name beseems
These vain and wandering days!
Like the bark of dreams
That from souls at daybreak strays
They are lost on trackless ways.
Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, born in the late 1860s in Japan, was a dramatist, fiction writer, and art critic. His poetry collections include Naked Ghosts: Four Poems (Fantasia, 1925), Tanka and Haiku: 14 Japanese Rhythms (G. Bruno, 1915), and My Rubaiyat (Mangan, 1913). He died in November 1944.