#Photography, Poetry

Simple Math

In the world

I am one of the many

a distant stranger

wrinkled face

gray goddess.

Just like you.

It is a daily challenge to be noticed.

To be recognized, near impossible.

The special moments are few and far.

When they come

I feel gifted, energized

my spirit soars

until my inner editor

a fanatic

delivers

another sucker punch.

And as the blood drains

from my muse

it reminds me of

a spangled, lone star tick

who has cracked my code again

the equation elemental,

silence the fanatic.

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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 of American Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category. View all posts by Cornelia DeDona