Bio: John is a social worker working in the field of disability management
and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and
psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019),
The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments
(2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines,
and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the
Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two
children.
Waterlilies
That day
When we went to see
The waterlilies
In the French countryside
And I watched the sun
Dance across your face
For an instant
On the bank
Of the old pond
As I brushed your skin
Lightly
Reaching for something
Closer to art
Than beauty
When love was soft
And slow
Beneath the shade
Of the apple boughs
In the garden
***
A Night in Florence
Beauty
Humanity
And knowledge
A Renaissance
Of ideals
A new age of learning
In the winds
Of change
Grand visions of progress
Under a new
Medici moon
And the elegant refinement
Of lurid need
In the Tuscan foothills
Carnality and sin
Pressing against flesh
As day turns to night
With the deep undertones
Of Florence
Breathing
***
Dreams
As the night
Changes
Far too fast
Dreams
Are the most floating sleep
Of all
Gently they go
The trembling
The shaky
And the unsteady
As the woolly promise
Of tomorrow
Sings like a future
Encased in glass
***
Enjoyed the imagery of these.
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