Poetry by Mitchel Montagna

BIO

Mitchel Montagna has worked as a special education teacher, radio journalist, and corporate communicator. He is married and lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

POEMS

Mountain Memory

The sun streamed like a waterfall
Ferns lit up in the glare
Needles sparked along the fields
that breathed the mountain air

Close upon a strand of flame
These eyes of silver blue
On a face so clear with thought
emotion simmered through

She spoke of city circumstance
Of gloomy narrow skies
She gazed up at the mountain sun
till tears bloomed in her eyes

A later dive with elegance
In rivers cooled by night
A body blurred and flowing free
through starry pools of light

As laurels blazed along the shore
Time carried her downstream
In formal dress she drifted on
from earth into a dream

God’s Will

You stand against the gentle
tides, that urge you back
into the deep; this terror’s
surely racked your bones, to
cross that bright and mighty will.
Your sadness staring down
the surf, as glassy-green
as emeralds; the sunlight
glinting off the waves, and
dancing brightly in your eyes.
All the gifts you’ve conjured
up, and all the dreams that
colored you; they seethed until
they burned your hopes, and
dried your blood with bitterness.
You cannot let them pull
you down, and drown you in their
soothing waves; too horrible to
go in peace, then find your
soul still cries alone.

Reminders

Please do not forget that Literary Revelations will soon publish Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony, and Power in Japanese Art by Hikari and Gabriela Marie Milton. Cover reveal: