We each have one.
It defines who we are,
shaping our day-to-day
in a profound way.
Our stories travel with us.
They thread their way
through our lives,
follow us down paths,
to the right and left,
guide our steps,
while our dreams lean ahead.
Our stories are fledglings,
small birds learning the air,
on their own
into the great wide world
to be interpreted by people
who will add, subtract
and make them their own.
Stories stitched into patterns
of color, history, and skin
changing faces
leaving traces
of greatness from above.
They will explore the vastness
of space
travel to other worlds
throw stones at what they fear
take what is not theirs to study,
then form conclusions,
acting on limited knowledge,
from fragments they mistake for truth,
and then retell the story.
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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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