Diane Giardi  joined the North Shore Poets’ Forum and the Massachusetts State Poetry Society in 2008, after moving with  her husband last year from Southold, NY, to Annisquam in Gloucester.  She had come to the Poets’ Forum’s annual reading held in April for National Poetry Month, and she read some terrific poems during the Open Mic period. We were very happy she joined.

Diane is an artist, with an MFA in clay. She currently teaches art at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols and Endicott College, and she has  taught in the past at The DeCordova Museum School, Syracuse University and The School of The Museum of Fine Arts. To visit her visual arts/education website link to: http://campus.digication.com/dianegiardi

She has enjoyed writing poems since she was very young.  Diane was surprised this month to find out she received four awards in the Mass State Poetry Society’s National Contest, which includes about 25 categories and attracts many entrants.

Here is one of the four … Look for the others over the next few days.

Hanging on Your Every Line

What you underlined

will keep me sane.

I revisit you.

I know you, why that sentence says it all.

How you connect,

what it means and

I’m back in time.

I love the waviness of your line

from deep red marker, to light charcoal pencil, to faded blue pen.

My eyes rest on the stars you created,

highlighting the paragraphs

that describe what mattered in our lives.

I dive into the pages where you wrapped circles around their numbers,

so many years ago.

You speak to me again as I reread

what fed us.

Reinforcing why I love you,

why life, lonelier now is still worth living.