|
5.5x8.5 paperback, 70 pages -- email if interested: mankh(a)allbook-books.com
- About the Author
Lynn Cooper was born and raised in New York. She
graduated college as an English major, and worked on
Long Island as a human resources professional for over
twenty-five years. A poet all her life, she retired and
moved to Delray Beach, Florida, careful to secure her
valuables: a loose-leaf binder of finished poems, several
anthologies in which she had been published, and a
computer full of writing. Inside a Poemis Lynn Cooper’s
first full-length collection of poetry.
* * * *
sample poems:
Bird Talk
Pushy pedantic parrots
discuss philosophy
global warming, extinction
give wordy, high flown speeches
while I, a self-restrained canary
become lost
in their avian rhetoric
I want to screech
above a tweet
show them more
than a bird’s brain
instead I chirp
flutter wings
fly swiftly over their heads
aim for their open mouths
* * * *
Fear in the Sky
Eye level with bands
of nature’s electricity
I clench my hands, my teeth
shout OMG over and over
As this small jet dodges
thick smoky clouds
in a hellish night
Turbulence triumphs
I grab onto seat’s armrests
eye paper barf bag
my dinner ready
to exit my mouth
Unwanted thoughts pervade
my over-anxious mind
It’s not my time, I have
too much too many to live for
As pilot flies through a black hole
determined to reach our destination
I realize I have
an appointment with Destiny
* * * *
Sunday Morning
Like the still
Autumn day outside
my body is calm
A soft smile defines my lips
I want to hold
this feeling
longer than
our arms and legs
entwine
Longer than
your scent stays
on my sheets
Long enough
to erase years of
Sunday mornings
when I lay alone
feeling like winter
would never leave
* * * *
© 2018-2022 Lynn Cooper.
|
