The Alchemist: Poems 2019

By The Alchemy Poets

The Alchemy Poets never fail to enlighten and entertain.

From the simplest to the most complex, these poems are dazzling and reflect the writers’ wide-ranging interests and engagement with the world.

 

Both new and seasoned Alchemy poets are observers, ambitious and centered on things as they are, and passionately in

• Language: English
• Publisher: GoldTouch Press, LLC
• Release date: Feb 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952155239

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THE ALCHEMIST

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Poems 2019

Copyright © 2020 by The Alchemy Poets.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2019921129

HARDBACK:     978-1-952155-22-2

Paperback:    978-1-952155-21-5

eBook:           978-1-952155-23-9

Cover Photo: Symbiosis by Marilyn Vasko Laufer

Designer/Editor: Alana Sherman

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Contents

MARCIA M. SALTON

THE RESERVOIR

MORNING REFLECTIONS

GET THEM DONE

VERTICALLY CHALLENGED

YEARLY REBIRTH

MY HYDRANGEAS

SQUIRRELLY THOUGHTS

LIFE’S STORMS

PATRICIA DURNEY

MEMORIES OF LOVE

LADY DELAWARE

THE SOUND OF YOU

WHAT BUGS ME

GENDER ADVICE

P.R. GATES

THE OLD DOG

BURY ME BAREFOOT

DAMPNESS

NAPKIN POEM

YOU WERE HERE

WAITING

FIREFLIES

HE LEFT TODAY

VERA ATKINS

PASTA IS MY FAVORITE FOOD

MY TREE

A SPRING MORNING

AUTUMN

MY SPECIAL PLACE

CORA SCHWARTZ

FEBRUARY WIND

A GRANDMOTHER’S BABYSITTING PRAYER

BUCHAREST AT NIGHT

I CAN PRETEND

A DYING SURVIVOR

MARILYN VASKO LAUFER

RAPTOR

POETRY

CANOPY

SEND ME YELLOW ROSES

LOSS (2)

TRIP

SYMBIOSIS

SHAUNE BORNHOLDT

REVISITING THE MEADOW

THE LIFELONG LEARNING POETRY CLASS

TRAPLINE

GLORIA WAGENKNECHT

CURLY HAIR BLUES

DAY’S END

OUTFOXING THE SQUIRRELS

SOLAR POWER

ALANA SHERMAN

A PATH WINDS THROUGH SCRUB

WHAT I FOUND

EVENSONG @ CANTERBURY

PARTICULARS

IN THE KITCHEN

LIKE AN OCEAN WAVE

LORI MEISNER

I HAVE NOT WRITTEN

HAIKU AND TANKA

About The Authors

MARCIA M. SALTON

THE RESERVOIR

The water sparkles blue and calm.

Tourists and locals pause to see.

They do not know or don’t recall

What lies beneath this tranquil scene.

Our Atlantis. Real. No myth.

Swamped. Swallowed. Seen no more.

Houses, churches, schools, and roads

Deliberately drowned. Did no one care?

People cast out. Lives displaced.

Family birthrights vanished. Gone.

Done for need, for progress, growth.

For strangers in a far-flung place

The water sparkles blue and calm

Masking the death that lies below.

MORNING REFLECTIONS

Nary a ripple on the glass-like lake,

water