Ariel's Song

By Dawn Pisturino

This collection of poems features various styles and themes, from twisted limericks that make you laugh to traditional sonnets that make you think and feel the world around you. There is something for everyone to enjoy.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dawn Pisturino
• Release date: Mar 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9798218385620

Dawn Pisturino

Dawn Pisturino is a retired nurse in Arizona whose international publishing credits include poems, short stories, and articles. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, most recently in Hidden in Childhood: A  Poetry Anthology, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women, and the 2023 Arizona Literary Magazine. She is a Mystery Writers of America and Arizona Authors Association member.

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Ariel's Song

Published Poems, 1987 - 2023

Dawn Pisturino

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Horse Mesa Press

Collection copyright © 2024 by Dawn Pisturino.

All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

The author owns all rights to previously published poems. Full credit has been given to the publishers.

The cover was created on Canva by Dawn Pisturino using artwork in the Public Domain.

Contents

1.Acknowledgments

2.Dedication

3.Ashes

3. A Limerick

4.The Man in Galloway Bay

4. A Limerick

5.The Man from Brazil

5. A Limerick

6.The Cannibal and His Dog

6. A Limerick

7.Smoking Hot Love

8.Honey

9.Nature's Child

10.November

11.Stars Fade

12.Ariel's Song

12. Dedicated to My Daughter, Ariel Therese Pisturino

13.Rapping

14.Murder House

15.Drunken Poet

16.Evening at the Mosque

17.The Last God

18.Melissa and the Angels

19.Christ's Sorrow

19. A Sonnet

20.Hold on to that Dream

21.My Life is a Desert

22.When the Morning Comes

23.Legacy

24.Boudica's Soliloquy

25.My Grave

26.The Age of Elegance

27.The Sleeping Beauty

27. Dedicated to My Daughter, Ariel Therese Pisturino

28.Just Me and the Clock

29.The Rusty Tin Can

30.The Smile

31.Psychology

32.The Girl on the Bus

33.The Old Man at the Piano

34.This Land is in My Blood

35.Springtime

36.Summer Eden

37.Sonnet to the Moon

37. A Sonnet

38.O Thou, England!

39.April Showers

40.First Snow

41.Coyote

42.Where Shall We Go

43.Dreamcatcher

44.Separation

45.Grief

46.The Alternative

47.Winter Thorns

48.The Look

49.Narcissus

50.Shattered Glass

51.On Cupid's Broken Wings

52.Passion

52. A Haiku

53.Bricks

54.You and I

55.Ordinary Things

56.The Squatter

57.Baudelaire

58.He Loved His Dogs

59.The Listener

60.I HATE SNAKES

61.Dirty Donald

62.Chelsea had a Little Lamb

63.The Dentist

64.Down in the Graveyard

65.The Screaming Skull

66.The Ghost

67.The Fairies

68.About the Author

Acknowledgments

Iwant to thank my husband and daughter for their steadfast love and support. Without them, this collection would not have been written.

The author owns all rights to previously published poems. They were published under non-exclusive rights (rights revert to the author upon publication.)

The Listener and I HATE SNAKES appeared originally in Hidden in Childhood: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Gabriela Marie Milton and published by Literary Revelations Publishing House.

Nature's Child won Honorable Mention in the Arizona Authors Association 2022 Literary Contest and appeared in the 2023 Arizona Literary Magazine.

Boudica's Soliloquy originally appeared in Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women, edited by Gabriela Marie Milton and published by Ingrid Wilson of Experiments in Fiction Publishing House.

Other poems in this collection were published by Spillwords Press, Literary Revelations Journal, Underneath the Juniper Tree, Danse Macabre du Jour, The Skeptic's Kaddish, Masticadores USA, Gobblers & Masticadores, Masticadores India, Chewers & Masticadores, Hotel