Sharing birth dates
as we do
it’s unlikely I shall ever be allowed
to truly forget him.
Other thoughts
other people
will crowd the rest of my days
excluding him
until our day of celebration arrives
and that moment
of bending over my candles
I forget to make my wish.
Rather
I’ll wonder
whose eyes are meeting his
across their lovely light.
Always be a poet. Even in prose.
— Charles Baudelaire.
In essence I am a storyteller who writes poems. Put simply, I write the poems I want to read.[…]
A sequence of my poems has been published in a hardcover book entitled The Music of Leaving Poems by Tricia McCallum
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