Poems from Annette M Velasquez
I've often wondered what I'd be
if I were something else.
Would you fascinate me so
if I were not myself?
If I could somehow magically,...
Thinking of poetry,
I recall two books
favorites from years past,
each consists of Bill Moyer's
interviews
with various poets...
These...
Today,
during a time
of quiet contemplation
I recall
three simple
metaphors,
which came from my reading-
from various books
on spirituality...
The fury
of a storm-
and the aftermath
the destruction
and debris-
those haphazard heaps
and the realization
that everything's gone-
all...
"Death to all tyrants!"
once blazed across the land,
where slavery and oppression
we're close on every hand.
From the shadowed corners of
a...