Lessons

Maureen Donatelli writes poetry that makes us think. Read this one and see what I mean. Maureen's most recent poem to appear here was Plenty, published in March 2011 as part of Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine.

Lessons
By Maureen Donatelli

Snow teaches sun
silent lessons of endurance
and snow teaches my tongue

meaning is restless
for permanence
and a liar

stars pour out their stories
in flickers
a kind of thought unending

white petals trickle
velvet tears to dark earth
such lessons drip eternal

no wires can hold
the bits of you I have
their velocity breaks my bones

Posted by Annmarie at 4/14/2011 1:08 AM
Categories: today's words
Tags: Maureen Donatelli snow lessons memory story
 

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