Poems from Annette M Velasquez
" Paradigm Shift"
is what they have named it-
this period,
so frightening-
with all its
devastation.
But as with every change-
(...
Is reunion
possible
after
an estrangement?
Certainly.
Though usually
much has changed...
And even if things
aren't exactly
amiss
remember...
Every spring
that
gossamer
explosion
of pink,
of downy,
almost
frothy
white.
Those crabapple
and cherry trees
of my childhood
and that one...
If I were to have
my very own genie
to grant me three wishes,
as in the tales of old
I would ask for but one-
let not this new found bliss...
Nightfall,
and with it an ominous chill,
then fear,
overpowering...
You hear the hoot of an owl,
smell woodsmoke,
see a cabin- there, in...