http://blueline.goobertree.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12353
Persistent Noise
It continued for forty days
the drip, drip, drip,
ping, ping, ping,
tap, tap, tap
until I stopped hearing it.
Fading into the distant roar
of a thousand hands clapping, encouraging creative minds to
delve deeper, pursue with a vengeance that which needed to be drawn out.
As a bucket lowered into a well
disappearing down until the only sound left
was the creak of the crank.
Splashing at the bottom
drifting upward
higher and higher, louder and louder until the drip, drip, drip was
drunk, drunk, drunk.
Soothing parched throats
cold fluid
energy harnessed and recycled
ebbing, flowing, contained, excreted.
Sustaining life
pouring down onto the earth
returning again into the air
in an endless cycle
multiplying the percentages
exponentially
until the element defines us.
Like this:
Like Loading...
Published by
Cornelia DeDona
Author/Photographer, and native New Yorker, Cornelia is currently a
Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii for thirty-six years. She makes her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online and Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In October 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League ofAmerican Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
Cornelia's books:
"Letters To A Prisoner" by Connie D. (Honorable Mention For Poetry in 2011 New York Book Festival) https://www.createspace.com/3512628
"Hawaiian Time" by Cornelia DeDona (Third Place Multi-Discipline inaugural Vinnie Ream Award)
https://www.createspace.com/5751889
"Meadow Pause" (out of print)
"Boogie Fever" (out of print)
"Meadow Pause Revisited" (e-book)
https://www.amazon.com/Meadow-Pause-Revisited-Connie-D/dp/1466366141
"Fire Dance" (e-book)
http://www.blurb.com/ebooks/215568-fire-dance
"Pasta Italiana" (a notebook with color photos of Murano and Burano) http://www.blurb.com/b/3697761-pasta-italiana
"Saturdays With Lillian" (An Anthology from my days at University of Hawaii's Windward Community College)
http://www.blurb.com/b/2006721-saturdays-with-lillian
View all posts by Cornelia DeDona
