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Two Poems by stephanie roberts
Lovers Quarrel
so the sun said
& the stars salted fight
so the moon said
so weary
sadness filled the dawning.
dia-mond dia-mond dia-mond
stars chanted
sang
or mumbled ashamed.
(is it love)
the sun manages against her nature
a question mark
love?
(not again)
the sun manages.
(the stars never really cared.)
then the moon
(his smile broken in half)
with & without sun said,
there is no help for any of it.
these estrangements
arranging derangements
orbit forever.
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April Finally
these mornings are granulated sugar earth
geese barking home
sweet robin song
& war.
you & i are fire and fire
is the cliché
when all i want
is push
free
of your freezing soil
as lime gentle bud
of promise
counter to bait & provocations
that vex us.
i've given up
being tame
prefer
the liberty
of
Tiger of Dragons
uninhibited claw
& flame
unsurrendered
light of the jungle.
stephanie roberts has been featured in numerous journals, in North America and Europe, including Verse Daily, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Arcturus, Crannóg, Atlanta Review, L'Éphémère Review and elsewhere. She is a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee and self-published author of the poetry collection, The Melting Potential of Fire, and a book of short stories, As We Are. Twitter/Instagram @ringtales