Bio: Beverly M. Collins is author of the books, Quiet Observations:
Diary thought, Whimsy and Rhyme and Mud in Magic. Her
poems and short stories have appeared in publications based in USA, England,
Ireland, Australia, India, Berlin, Mauritius, and Canada both in print and
online. Winner of a 2019 Naji Naaman Literary prize in Creativity (Lebanon).
Collins, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, is also a prize winner for the
California State Poetry Society; was born in Delaware, raised in New Jersey and
now lives in Southern California. (USA). Her photography can be found on Fine
Art America products, Shutterstock, iStock/Getty images, Adobe Stock
and more. Website: beverlym-collins.pixels.com
Gypsy Tantrum
As sure as waiting words touched
by breath grows wings, the small
seed is a question mark armed with
answers.
Once seeds have opened,
new trees are among us with
design, thorns, flavors, all manner
of shapes and hues of bright green.
They boast splashes of ashy gray
that are called upward to a throne of
light, it creeps as soft leaves, curved
petals and cannot fit back into a pod.
Same as the humans that enjoy its
shade, the seeds claw toward sun
and victory with a cast iron will.
Like living bells that shimmies its
skirts and shifts from silence into
songs.
Beyond Faith
Many a heart aches as love goes to
war over the painful unexpected.
We wait in stranded boats for we
know everything has changed.
I have triumphed and failed quietly
like a shadow that craves the spotlight.
All is fair in love and war they say.
Rivers overflow their banks and
conquer the grounds near them.
What is proper flow in the stream of life?
When we carefully open mystery’s doors, will
we dissolve quickly and soothingly? Or will
center stage be the place where we vanish
