by Marieta Maglas
I'm ready to live
on this planet
moving in spirals
up and down
around the Sun,
around its own axis,
between the flowers and
ancestral fossilized rocks,
rocks rocking their poles.
I'm waiting for the butterflies
to hover above.
I'm a combination of C, H, O, and N
ice melting to give water and
water evaporating
kinetic energy and temperature
inside of a plasma having free ions.
I wonder at the icy comets
hitting the core of our sun.
I wonder at the waterfalls
the waterfalls, the waterfalls
clappers inside any empty mountain and
hollowness where the sunlight
doesn't make angles.
I wonder at the solar flares
hitting the Oort Clouds.
I wonder at times if it is indispensable
to be known or not.
I'm sure that, after being
cataclysmically submerged in water,
any broken mountain
becomes a memory of an unknown,
unknown knowing to ring the bells
in a surviving church.
I'm sure that the entirety
of this immense and civilized life
can burn someday
in between oxygen and hydrogen
to be nothing,
I'm not sure I deserve to be saved by
The Lord, but I keep hoping.
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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