'A broken heart that refuses to mend now;
Life isn't like an ecstatic moment, like a pure vow.
They come and go, never last for long;
My past is not jubilant and lyrical like a song.'
(Darkness)
Another Year is a wonderful poem where her imagery tackles all
demands normally placed on a poet and still she emerges unscathed.
'The moonlit skies that would pass...
And I wish I could keep a count of all the stars!'
And later in the same poem:
'There are times when some happy moments sing--….
And dream and read endlessly...forever.'
In another touching poem Blindsided, we are transcended to
vividly realized scene where the poet talks of 'The unforgotten
love' which 'like a ripe memory' 'never goes.' When the poet
laments ' So what happens when one knows she has found him/
But the other stays clueless...'the eternity of single moment is
important. Between past/present/future lie arrays of suffocating
moments that test the lover incisively.
In Human Qualities, she thinks of human qualities and writes
intensely exploring human beings.
' Lost!
In the crowd
in search
of a hand;
That would take me out
And show
The other side!'
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