by David Dephy
I watch you when you walk,
7714 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn,
New York 11214, this place
is more beautiful when you walk,
when you ride breeze into the mist
behind the lilac shadow of a tree.
Dragonfly always follows us.
Emperor dragonfly, the prime messenger
of all the good news, the sign of luck.
We love silence, as if dragonfly
wants us to know what lies behind silence,
a secret, as if dragonfly wants us to touch
that silence, reveal a secret, as our own breath,
but there are no words in our thoughts,
there are no thoughts in our minds,
there is trust only, language of silence,
universal with a simple syntax,
we recognized ourselves in others,
and felt how a quiet recognition
can drown out every fear.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
DAVID DEPHY -- The trilingual American award-winning poet, novelist, multimedia artist. Founder of Poetry Orchestra. The 1st place winner of THE ARTISTS FORUM Poetry Award in New York City 2021, the winner of the Finalist Award in the 2020 Best Book Award National Contest by American Book Fest, the winner of the 2019 Spillwords Press Poetry Award and the Finalist and Shortlist Winner Nominee of the Adelaide Literary Awards 2019/2020 for the category of Best Poem. Named as Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry, Stellar Poet by Voices of Poetry, Incomparable Poet by Statorec, Brilliant Grace by Headline Poetry & Press and Extremely Unique Poetic Voice by Cultural Daily. He lives and works in New York City.
Last updated July 21, 2022