The new Gathering 2024 poetry anthology, which contains my poem “prayer upon an empty hilltop,” is now available over at Amazon.
This is Gathering’s second annual publication, and it is once again a joint initiative between Poets Anonymous and Local Gems Press. I remain quite grateful for this opportunity to Bards President James P. Wagner, as well as Lesley Tyson and Megan McDonald of Poets Anonymous. 🙂
what stars I find will usher me,
the moon will beam camaraderie,
what winds will wind around my ears
will bend to answer for my fears.
between them, all the endless space
will draw eternity to face
with vast and reassuring mien
the quandaries of the unserene.
here, the shade of me will mark
a figure in the violet dark.
all the hilltop consorts know
identity’s illusion, though.
let starlight penetrate my skin,
the moon expand to let me in,
the winds, again, absorb my voice,
if retrieval be their choice.
— (c) Eric Robert Nolan 2020
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Eric Robert Nolan, Author 