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Calligraphy
I study myself
In a mirror.
All my past anxieties
Happinesses
Losses
Spun
Like calligraphy.
Edgy Sanskrit
Fan from eyes
Encircle cheeks
Sweeping Mongolian
Girds mouth.
Ascenders,
Descenders,
Inward internal counters
Ink me
Etch me
Create my
Deep good.
Finally,
I am a page
To be understood.
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New Ground
Sometimes
I am an
Émigré,
Lost,
Held aloft,
Naked roots
Searching,
Desperate
For
Your whisper
Of
New ground.
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Bio: Mark Almand
Mark has been writing poetry since college. He really got going in 2017 as a way to help him deal with his mother’s descent into dementia. He is currently completing a book of poems tentatively called Here and After.
Favorite topics are the metaphysical, grief, love and faith. He has written one book, Claude’s Canvas, a memoir, published in 2010.
Mark is married with three adult children and lives in the foothills of northeast Georgia.
His first published poem was in University of Connecticut’s student newspaper, The Connecticut Daily Campus.
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Welcome Mark! I enjoyed your poetry. You have a way of using beautifully simplistic phrases to write about quite complex issues. Refreshing!
Thank you very much, Terry! I am happy and humbled to have these poems published here.
Mark, So good to see your work here!!
Thank you for encouraging me to submit to the site, Michelle! I’m impressed by what I’ve seen, and I’m delighted to have my poems included.
I’m delighted you submitted.