A fair-weather princess
once wandered gardens long.
But she had no use for rain,
or getting wet in song,
with either friend or foe.
She’s devoted to calm,
avoids forecasts in principle,
files storms under unacceptable
and thunder under whimsical.
“Better viewed from afar,” she’d say,
than splashed in this weather’s mess.”
So she built a moat of umbrellas
around her happiness.
By dodging every cloud,
every puddle, every scar,
she slowly turned herself
into a pickle in a jar—
sealed against the tempest,
safe from every squall and squirm,
until the rain she feared the most
was life itself, confirmed.
Published by
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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