the sacred white
elephant
charges up
the tousled green
mountainside
with a tiny sliver
of Buddha relic bone
tightly clutched
in his trunk tip
his sole purpose
to collapse
and die on the sheerest
cliff
to signify
where a temple should be
built
from the millions of
voices
in the world
crying out for peace
at the same time
Stephen A. Rozwenc is a widely published
expat poet, who currently resides in Thailand. He is the first poet in the
history of American literature to write and publish 90% of his work after the
age of 65. He has published 7 collections of poetry. His published book
collections are: The Fourth Turning, Grass Hill, Ekphrastic Nightingales,
New England Fortune Cookies, Death Is Birth, Russia, Translations of Famous
Russian Poets, Thai Diary, and Selected Poems.
More than 300 of his poems and translations
have appeared individually in numerous poetry publications including: The
Mailer Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Blue Lake Review, Dm Du Jour, Equinox,
Eunoia Review, Glass Poetry, Naugatuck River Review, New Pattaya Review, Philadelphia
Poets, Poets Against War, Plum Tree Tavern, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The
Plum Tree Tavern. His poetry and translations have been published
internationally in Europe and Asia. He has been a past recipient of two
Williamsburg Massachusetts Arts Council Grants for poetry. Two of his poems
have been selected for inclusion in the Lothlorien Poetry Journal Anthology of best
poems of 2021.
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