The world is a jewel box for you,
a songbook for me; musical gems
are my style;
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds,
Thin Lizzy's Emerald.
See you at the Beatles Museum!
for a string of pearls were found
in the Yellow Submarine,
All together now, rubies, diamonds
and emeralds, and tourmaline!
South Africa, Namibia, places
I've never been, King Solomon's Mines!
I'm still mining for the songs,
I've got the White Album by my bed.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th