Poems from RhondaNaomi
Rhonda is a Graduate Assistant at Southeastern Louisiana University in beautiful Hammond. On the outside, she is a middle-aged single mother of a 16-year-old and a 6-year-old who fell in love with writing later in life than most writers (started writing at age 30). On the inside, she is still a 19-year-old idealist. She's also a self-claimed late bloomer, but she has written 2 novel-length stories, a screenplay, many short character sketches and she produces poetry in surges that feel like ocean waves of joy.
brilliant and inflaming
a pyro’s plastic milk container
is wafting at the peak of fire
the sunlight dripping makes a hinge
and rainbows...
I am always in the room with you.
Regard the mirror angled on the shelf for you to look in and see me.
I write words on the mirror-
you...
I am always in the room with you.
Regard the mirror angled on the shelf for you to look in and see me.
I write words on the mirror-
you...
Girlfriend! Your man’s over here lookin like a real serial killah. How can I tell you this without havin to tell you every time his hand...
Dearest Husbandry,
I’m your Mississippi Aphrodite, a giant Amazonic.
I am shin-deep in the Mississippi River
and I see above the clouds...