AUGUST POETRY

Poets for August : Cat Holt, Richard Donnelly, Anne Bradshaw, S M Abeles, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, and De Jackson

SOLO

By

Cat Holt

Single startling note.

As a bird cried out.

Shattering the heavy

Old dusty silence.

As the echoes faded

Another note followed.

Then more stop

Started out.

Until a gentle

Broken song

Stuttered

In to life.

That one sweet

Sorrow solo.

That hoped to

Start a chorus.

THE FLOWER OF THE WILD

By

Cat Holt

– How embarrassing.

The rose blossomed

Black instead of

Delicate pink.

– Oh the shame.

Its strong fragrance

Of spice and blood

Snaked through the

Dusk purple air.

– Everything is ruined.

As it wears its

Sharp thorns with

Pride and glory.

– Oh how awful.

It should have been

So gentle, demure

Not this wild growing

Rose of night and fire.

How wonderful