by Marieta Maglas
The eye opened
as a dropping hot, liquid sake
from a globe of glass
to reveal an inner, nude feeling~
totem on the retina.
Unbreakable, needed to be broken
out of sight.
In the transparency of aeons,
this sentiment is never hedonic
and means self-defense.
'Tis like tae Kwon do or like
an offbeat bluegrass.
The heart has known true love.
'Tis a disheartened scream
of an offshoot and
recalls the dream
in its Orphic Egg~
bridges,viaducts,highways, and rainbows.
Rain cannot blister life.
'Tis wet and see-through
while dropping
onto the sin core, within~
sorely, steadly, slowly, and silently.
From time to time
It falls to become
a cogency. Looks like truth
or maybe like sake.
Love can breast the chest of the Lord.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Marieta Maglas resides in France, where she pursues dual careers as a poet and a doctor. Her literary themes encompass love, freedom, truth, justice, and existentialism. Marieta's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The MockingOwl Roost, Lothlorien Journal, Verse-Virtual, Silver Birch Press, Sybaritic Press, Four Feathers Press, Kingfisher Poetry, Haikuniverse, Masticadores Canada, Oddville Press, Dashboard Horus, Coin-Operated Press, Mayari Literature, Synchronized Chaos, Al-Khemia Poetica, PentaCat Press, Phoenix Z Publishing, All Your Poems Magazine, Letterpile, Southern Arizona Press, and Antarctica Journal. Additionally, her work has been featured in several anthologies, such as Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing and Art Featuring Everybody’s Favorite Female Sleuth, The Cardinal Anthology Volume 3, Ain’t no Deadbeats Around Here Anthology, Startled by MUSIC 2023, Startled by FAITH 2023, A Divine Madness: An Anthology of Modern Love Poetry, Enchanted- Love Poems and Abstract Art, and The Auroras and Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition. Some of her poems have been translated into Japanese, published in the Journal of Akita International Haiku in Japan, and into Korean, appearing in DiziBooks in South Korea. In 2016, her poetry collection titled Cubic Words was released in Belgium.
Last updated June 29, 2025