Ariel's Song: Published Poems, 1987 - 2023
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Ariel's Song is a collection of intensely personal poems written between 1987 and 2023 that 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: dark poems, love poems, nature poems, funny poems,
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 - Dawn Pisturino
Ariel's Song
Published Poems, 1987 - 2023
Dawn Pisturino
image-placeholderHorse 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