As autumn colors fade to bare limbs and stark skies, take a few minutes to contemplate these autumnal poems previously published on Zingara Poetry Review:
Tag: Carol Alena Aronoff
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softly by Carol Alena Aronoff
sift the soil as if it held the delicate shell
of your motherarchaeology of dreams unfulfilled or pending
astronaut adventurer marathon dancerdig up her wishes layered as onion, replant
where memories of loss, disappointmentthreaten to overrun days in moon’s shadow
there is no way to know the flowers that bloomedfor a morning their scent may have lingered
too faint for recognitionwith life ephemeral as blaze of autumn leafing
fragile as moth wing in summer lighttake no notice of strident voices or mud wasps
you know what this jewel is worthwhat facets still face away from sun
it takes only a hand to turn them—
Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D. is a psychologist/teacher/writer whose poetry has been published in numerous literary journals/anthologies. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has five books of poetry: The Nature of Music, Cornsilk, Her Soup Made the Moon Weep, Blessings from an Unseen World, Dreaming Earth’s Body. She lives in rural Hawaii.
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