The Filigree of Life
Engraved in the midnight sky
The stars and planets
Outline the universe
Projecting the future
Onto the darkened screen of night
Millennia of patterns
Recorded by history
As the boundaries reshape the zodiac
Forecasting evolution
As light-years draft schematics
Of time past and time to be told
Stories in a melting pot
Of liquid iron
Molded into bars like a skeleton
To be wrought by a blacksmith
Into the filigree of life
Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine has spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and as a music and theatre professional. A 2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner, the Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly Summer 2021 and his bio is featured in “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Bruce has over three hundred works published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, The Drabble; in over seventy print books including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal; Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites (on-line and print) and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country. His work is dedicated to the loving memory of his late wife, Lydia Franklin. A native Manhattanite, Bruce now lives and writes in Maine. Visit him at www.brucelevine.com
Marvelous work
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