Disappointment

POETRY CORNER

Disappointment (Photo – Jean Sudbury).

– 9/23/15

Alice Pero

Her birds are flying
so wild in the yard
yet she cannot move
from this place
and this sighing

Alice Pero is a poet & musician living on the edge of a desert wash in Sunland where she often dreams of the gentle rolling green hills of Ireland and hopes she will not be too old by the time she gets to go there.

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Patty Hardin

alive with promise
the butterfly crosses my path
tempts me
away from the darkness
of disappointments

Patty Hardin a North Dakota transplant now living in Long Beach, Washington. She says “remember that darkness and disappointment are inevitable, but not permanent”.

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(Photo – Jean Sudbury).

Mary Kendall

closing my eyes
and shutting out the world
dreaming
of things
that might have been

Mary Kendall lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She says “I meditate daily so I can try to be fully in the present moment. I’ve found that the best way to deal with worries about ‘what might have been’ is to corral them into a poem”.

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* Photos by Jean Sudbury, a Sierra Madre artist, photographer, writer, composer, musician, creative and patient gardener​.

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