This poem first appeared under my maiden name in Canadian Author & Bookman (Vol. 54 N0. 3) in 1979. It’s so interesting rediscovering writings from a past chapter in one’s life – quite forgetting whom I thought I was…..
Another Poem From The Past
Tag: purpose
Note To A Friend
“Clear Night Over Treadwell Bay” – Nominated for Best of the Net 2017
A couple of hundred miles up the coast
two weeks into a summer of cruising
we end our day of fishing with a movie.
But the shouting and shooting carve sharp
initials into the tree-deep silence here,
so I step outside, right onto the glittering
dance floor of an olive-black sky
on a clear, good night. My mind whirls,
words falling far away, then my fears,
then even the best of the best in me, all
dwarfed by this lavish sprinkling of stars:
confetti of the gods, tossed long ago upon
a lifted veil—marrying me now to the
faintest glimmer of worlds beyond ours.
I gaze, it seems forever, a moth burning
to remember a dream wings can’t forget.
I am thrilled to have this poem nominated for the Best of the Net 2017 Anthology by editor Cristina Norcross of the Blue Heron Review, where it appeared July 2016!
Lynne Burnett 