The poem comes from a moment of clarity when you realize solitude by choice. In this solitude you find things (concrete and abstract) you've been looking for.
As I walk about, the sky is clear.
I feel no pain!
No voices speak to me...
My thoughts are dear,
My mind is clear-
I wish this for years;
Of joy,
Of laughter,
No sorrows I feel.
I cherish this time-
Come with me to this place...
Where forever is today.
Where memories are embraced-
Created to live forever.
Solitude of space;
Captive to no one.
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
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