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Anorexia | Ann M. Bauer - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Anorexia | Ann M. Bauer

These early seventy years have betrayed her,
She never saw it coming.
Her powerful ego failed to respect the bones and muscles of her core.
The stone statue of her frame gradually crumbled,
By the insidious attempt to starve it.
She won this battle, but at what cost?
The inability to walk, sit, stand for any length of time
No relief from the pain except at rest,
undisturbed numbing sleep her friend.
Extending each day fraction of minutes,
‘til half the day she’s in her cocoon,
The sanctuary of linens and quilts
a way of survival.

The Maid | Ann M. Bauer - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

The Maid | Ann M. Bauer

Neither a foul nor friendly smell, but odd,
Unfamiliar, both intriguing and heightening
her anxiety that perhaps this was something she created.
The rotting oranges in the bottom of the fruit basket,
the mildewed towels scattered on the floor?
The rusty pipes, or the neglected cat’s litter box,
The weight of accumulating waste,
its lingering odor seeping into the walls,
finally dusting on the seams of
her fine hairs under the chin,
in the delicate creases
of her knuckles disturbing
the core of cleanliness
she so earnestly strived for.

Gandhi | Alberto Quero - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Gandhi | Alberto Quero

To fight or not to fight:
that is no dilemma
Will our struggles cease with us?
If they are fair, if they take us our lifetime
they will prevail within the new hearts
in the generations that are to come,
they will erect a solemn destination
for their nations
May a spinning wheel every man be
peace is invincible
—–
From Alberto’s award-winning poetry book, “Los Que Vinieron,” published in Spanish by Negro Sobre Blanco Editions. Caracas, Venezuela, 2014.

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