The bleeding hearts and forget-me-nots have not bloomed.
How can this be?
It is September 2025.
The war has not happened yet.
Gas is cheaper for the moment.
I do not have to listen to a calm voice
still draping a silk sheet over the obvious
while its weather gathers at the door
Oh, happier day, while the weather gathered
So get to work on something that will not fold.
If you want greatness,
then alter the course of history.
Come up with answers that can stand in daylight.
Real answers. Real solutions.
For problems already licking at the frame.
We’ll keep the time.
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in 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 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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