Literary Revelations wishes you a great Sunday and a wonderful week ahead. We are thrilled to present you with two fabulous poems by Michael Shoemaker. We hope you enjoy them.
Bio
Michael Shoemaker is a poet, photographer and writer from Magna, Utah. He is the author of a poetry/photography collection Rocky Mountain Reflections (Poets’ Choice) and the forthcoming Grasshoppers in the Field. Michael is a winner of the California State Poetry Society Prize and is on the shortlist for The Letter Review Prize for Poetry. His writing has appeared in Blue Lake Review, Literary Revelations Journal, The High Window, Seashores Haiku Journal, The Penwood Review and in anthologies at Poetry Pacific and Echoes of the Wild. Michael has been awarded artist residencies at the Wollf Cottage in Fairhope, Alabama and the Writer’s Cabin at Camp Tilikum in Newburg, Oregon. Michael is an editor at The Clayjar Review. He lives with his family where he can enjoy looking out on the Great Salt Lake every day. His hobbies include tennis, pickleball, golf and hiking.
Where I Belong
Latitudes north
draw me
where my destination
will be
a place
where I can
lean back in a camp chair
and breathe in the harmonious
smell of deciduousness
the red maple, white pine and sweet birch
and know from the heaven’s
vaults and spires
down to the center of my core
in this late lazy afternoon daydream
that I belong
in thy enraptured arms
sheltered, courageous, warm,
bold and free
for today and tomorrow
until time’s last
dangling moment of eternity
photo by Michael Shoemaker
From a Borrowed Garden Terrace
vermilion violet
ethereal fragrance
tumbles
from high trellises
over
the
wall
into a pool
casting
shimmering
radiant resplendence
revolving kaleidoscope
reflections
dancing and darting
slivers of sunlight
mid water lilies
completed in virtuoso
silence
Do no forget: On March 17, 2024 Literary Revelations will publish a fabulous poetry book – Echoes Lost in Stars by PS Conway.
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Indeed. Thank you,
Beautiful poems.
Thank you hon. I hope you are well.
Thank you Gabriela, I have been well and just need to catch up with life. 😀🌻
Glad to hear you were well hon.
He was an excellent poet beautiful poems👌