A Novel Choice

 




 

A Novel Choice


 

 

 

Chasing a rainbow

through a field of dreams

Holding the tail of a kite

as it floats to the top of the mountain

Piling up choices into mounds

of vanilla frosting

Holding forever moments in the

palm of your hand

 

Revising the past into the

hope of tomorrow

Time that seemed frozen

reawakening now

Pages and pages set

down in a journal

Defining the future

growing out of the past

 

A novel – a story

a tale told out of context

A time not forgotten

a wrong not resolved

With an eye on the future

moving on with the tide

Like the Gulf Stream through sorrow

shifting course once again

 

Arriving at the goal post

moved each time in the shadows

Out of reach and beyond longing

held by fate out of sync

As choices surround moments

encompassing pastures

For the grazing of cattle

and for opening doors

 

The time that seemed lost

on the pages of yesterday

No longer slumber on a shelf

high above

Out of reach yet not forgotten

with the help of a partner

Dusted off with a dust rag

climbing mountains of success


Bruce Levine


 

Bruce Levine is a Pushcart Prize poetry nominee, a Spillwords Press Awards winner, and a WestWard Quarterly featured writer. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five on-line journals including 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, Ariel Chart, Literary Yard, and Spillwords: over seventy print anthologies including Tipton Poetry Journal, Poets’ Espresso Review, Creations Magazine and WestWard Quarterly. He’s the author of the chapbook Sweet Dreams and is also a classical composer.

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