Today I got an email notice that my poem "Echo of Hope" was published in the World Poetry Movement's latest anthology, "Stars in Our Hearts." Of course they want me to buy the anthology for about seventy bucks. Does that make one a "published poet" any more than posting a poem on their own blog does? The prior editions in this series are available for purchase on Amazon.com, so maybe that makes it a little more legitimate.....of course there aren't any royalties, only the honor of having your work included. ISBN: 978-1-60880-123-7. It's the artist's life! We work away for the shared joy and good will of it all. My daughter Rachel had her poem "Dreams" published in a similar anthology when she was in high school, so I guess it runs in the family.
Here's the published poem. I vividly remember watching the miners being rescued. A true miracle and credit to some fine engineering of the drill that brought about their freedom:
ECHO OF HOPE
A poem about hope in the dark places of
life.
In honor of the thirty-three miners
rescued in Chile on October 14, 2010
Echoes
of a life once lived
Haunt
the darkness
As
days of buried hope
Assemble
alongside
Tears
and dreams
In
rocky-place room.
Will
wild little things made big
By
pressed in places
Naw
their way deep into my soul
And
leave imprints that
Elude
the eraser of time?
Then
I hear it―
The
echo of hope,
Of
pounding dreams,
Relentless
pursuit,
Moving,
looming
Near
to my gloomy
Desolate
tomb.
The voice of the Hero
Disquiets the night;
Rescue feels raw,
Bloody, rough-hewn.
Do my wide eyes assist
The maddening quest
For freedom and light,
For death of this night?
Then I hear it―
The echo of hope,
Of pounding dreams,
Relentless pursuit,
Moving, looming
Near to my gloomy
Desolate tomb.
©
Nancy Gerst, 2010
Copiapo Mining Accident
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