Nature Scenes the Subject of Sandra Williams' Poems for National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. For the rest of April, each day we will publish a poem: your favorite poem--one of your own or one by a published author.

Send your poem to janeEstahl@comcast.net with a sentence or two about yourself as the author or why the poem is among your favorites. And stay tuned for announcements of local poetry readings in the area that you may wish to attend to celebrate the integral role poets play in our culture.

by Sandra Williams

The coves quiet in the cold

a few gulls sweep the blue air

a wild sea flows from the horizon

It does not matter now--

the chaos we have wrought

losses suffered, changes to come

cannot touch, taint the heart of things

the quiet, the blue, the flow, the deep

Moon unfurls her cloudy sails.

All night, a silver ship of light

rises on the sea of sky

drifting window to window,

then sinks below the horizon

Red geranium

it's the red geranium

excitable explosion

red blood red

the red geranium

lifts me

with breathing color

healing my heart open

for love of

the red geranium

the red geranium

Sandra Williams shares her inspirations. A writer of poetry, essays and short stories, she believes writing is both therapeutic and enlightening— “When we become aware of what inspires us, we expand our imagination and tap into our intuitive selves.” She collaborates with her husband, Robert, local landscape and mural painter, promoting community arts. She is the author of the historical novella, Moss on Stone and Time and Tide: collection of Tales.

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