Saturday, 30 September 2023

Two Poems by Andrea Damic

 


Art by Andrea Damic - Coronavirus


People

 

people we meet

journey through our life

often unnoticed

intangible

like disappearing snowflakes

precipitating out of moisture in the clouds;

some of them stay, but

not for long

some grow into a distant memory

unconscious realisation

an afterthought, to which

we unwillingly circle back

like a déjà vu,

at times abruptly,

an imminent storm

covering the sky brusquely

until they disappear, in a flesh

not worth our time, but

others mark us

for a lifetime

every so often,

resembling a fresh breeze

in the early spring, and

they stay for a while

like a lengthy slender vine

leaving its ingrained mark, so

we keep them in our hearts

as long as we need

soundlessly yearning for the day

we capture their hearts,

impalpable but real

lingering

***

in the people left behind

 

 

Precarious Existence

 

fear, ever-present

during the forced

lockdown existence

 

not knowing what the future holds

 

our only authority,

the unyielding persistence, to

keep art alive, so

 

it incessantly unfolds




Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She’s an amateur photographer and author of prose and poetry. She writes at night when everyone is asleep; when she lacks words to express herself, she uses photography to speak for her. Her literary art appears or is forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, Door Is A Jar, The Dribble Drabble Review, Five on the Fifth, Roi Fainéant Press, Your Impossible Voice, 50 Give or Take Anthologies and elsewhere. She spends many an hour fiddling around with her website damicandrea.wordpress.com


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