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GAYLE SLATEN

Editor & Poet Laureate

During the time of COVID-19, where social distancing has become the norm, poetry reflects the fear and hope that isolation brings.  May you be safe.  May you stay healthy.

 

 

Distance

 

Ever the optimist

I see kindness abound

During this time

Of distancing

I feel the care

Of neighbors reaching out

Across the nations

Bridging the gap easily,

Taking the impossible

By surprise

Creating a new paradigm

Of working together

Against a common enemy

From our separate spaces

Quieting the fear

Through connection

On a deeper level

Going within

To reveal our humanity

Ever the optimist

I am witness to

A more gentle time 

Emerging

 

 

When This is Over

 

End of days

Brings me here

To this small,

Well appointed room

Like the scene from 

2001

Floating in space

Yet in a space

Of comfort and

Recognition, as though

I’ve been here before.

Safe--

This is all there is,

Just this room

And it is enough

To rebirth myself

Into a new life,

In a new world,

Shored up

For the new order

Of the universe…

Ready for anything

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I was named Gayle Lindsay Slaten at birth—my mother said she gave me a writer’s name. Prophecy or not, I have been writing since I could hold a pen.  Poetry flows with my nature, helping me to discover myself through hard times and a good friend to me as I traverse this earthly path.  This column encompasses the balance between dark times and light, earlier musings and lessons learned along the way.  I share my writing to help others know that life can change in a moment, just by making and acting on one choice.  I am happily living in Tucson, AZ, writing, drumming, dancing and making art. 

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