Two Poems & One Haiku by Elizabeth Marino

 

FOREST OF WE

In the forest of we

Your hand reaches out

Touches a limb

But not flesh or bone 

 

Deep indigo blue

A star shower tonight.

City lights gleam bright.

A step away from you

I, too, gleam in the night.

Previously published by Highland Park Poetry (USA).

FLIGHT

Did you run before you walked?

 

Toddler grin snaps open

Before she discovers flight.

 

Mira! Mira! Look!

The chair – as if across an ocean.

 

Crumpled eyes as she wavers

Then the excited cries land

 

Doubt against doubt

Then a moment of risk.

 

They will tell her later

About the time

She first took flight.

Previously published by Highland Park Poetry (USA).

HAIKU IN BLUE

Dust storms of charred leaves

Carried by clouds floating by

Azure lake shadows.

Elizabeth Marino is an American poet, actor, and educator based in Chicago. Pushcart Prize nominated, her poems and short memoir pieces appeared in the 2020 collection Asylum, as well as two chaps (Ceremonies and Debris) and over 25 international print anthologies, most recently Riders on the Storm from the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. She is a member of Circulo de poetas & Writers, TallGrass Writers Guild, and SAG-AFTRA. She also co-hosts a classical ballet film series at a local library with Mme. Elizabeth Boitsov, of Boitsov Classical Ballet Productions.