Three Wonderful Poems by Lorraine Caputo

 

NEW BORN 

 

Closed against the outside world, the winds 

& rains, the hail & bolts, I 

await the calming … clouds parting & fleeing, 

colours of new-born sun snagged on 

the frays, seeping across the sky … now  

I throw my window open to 

fresh air, a soft breeze enters my soul 

 

 

ONE STEP 

 

One step after tentative step, 

after many months of enclosure 

for hours, for days in this 

small suite on the terrace, 

spending hours gazing down 

upon the streets, spending hours 

sheltered from cold rains 

 

One step after tentative step, 

seeking my balance 

one step … searching for 

calm, to calm my inner self 

another step … to calm my heart 

 

another step … 

            calming … 

another step … 

            healing … 

yet another step … 

            balance … 

and another … 

            centering … 

 

moving forward 

one step … 

            after tentative step 

to my future 

another step … 

            forward … 

 

 

INTO FLIGHT 

 

Stretch, feather by feather, capture the sun’s 

light, sheen in blue, red, yellow, a 

touch of green there on the tip, 

stretch my neck, twist to see what 

is there & (twist) there, flick my 

tail, fan it wide, ruffle my body,  

beak peck an itch, stretch wings … fly …

Lorraine Caputo is a wandering troubadour – and a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 200 journals on six continents, such as Prairie Schooner (US), Revista Máquina Combinatoria (Ecuador), bones (Denmark), Open Road Review (India), Cordite Poetry Review (Australia) and The Ducor Review (Liberia); and 18 collections – including Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017), On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021). She also pens travel pieces, with narratives appearing in the anthologies Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road (Seal Press) and Far Flung and Foreign (Lowestoft Chronicle Press), and travel articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honoured by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her adventures at

www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer

and http://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.