The Tuesday Poem: Featuring Eileen Moeller’s “Wind” Here, & “Anna God Remembers” On The Tuesday Poem Hub
Wind
It is snow blood
coursing through
the roots of light.
It is the breath of stones
in watery darkness,
the longing for lift,
the moan of all
rooted things.
Bones cry out
for wings
in their sleep,
as jewels tap the glass.
It is this lack
that keeps
us dreaming.
The insistent
throb and push of it.
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© Eileen Moeller
Published in Firefly, Brightly Burning, Grayson Books, 2015
Featured here with permission.
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About The Poem:
Today I am featuring my fellow Tuesday Poet Eileen Moeller’s poetry, both here and on the Tuesday Poem Hub. Both poems are drawn from Eileen’s recently published book of poetry, Firefly, Brightly Burning.
To read the Hub feature and my commentary there, click on:
Anna God Remembers
In selecting Wind to feature here today, I was not only trying to reflect the diversity and depth of Eileen’s work. I also loved Wind from first reading, feeling that she had captured that restless element exactly — not least the
“…insistent
throb and push of it.”
I hope you enjoy both featured poems today and will take the time to check out Firefly, Brightly Burning and Eileen’s poetry further. A publisher’s link is provided in the Hub feature and you may also visit Eileen’s site, featured in the Tuesday Poem Blog’s sidebar.
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About The Poet:
Eileen Moeller was born in 1950 and grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, where she had poems published in her high school and college literary magazines. After starting a family, she earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where she taught in the undergraduate writing program for many years. She also did storytelling and ran creative writing workshops throughout Central New York. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies in the United States and England, in online journals, in self-help and spiritual books/blogs, and on her own blog, And So I Sing: Poems And Iconography. Three poems were set to music in 2011, by contemporary composer, Dale Trumbore for a CD titled Snow White Turns Sixty. She has also been the recipient of The Dorothy Damon and The Allen Ginsberg Awards. She currently lives in southern New Jersey with her husband, Charles.
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To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here.