I am sorry, but I again became consumed in work and forgot my real life, and I forgot to finish what I’d started when I introduced Diane Giardi last week. Forgive me. I know you will have enjoyed her poems that I’ve already posted here. She won won four awards in the recent Massachusetts State Poetry Soceity’s national contest, that had some 25 categories and hundreds of entries. Here is another of her winning poems.

92 Dreams Deferred

Langston knew

In gut, in soul

Feels the bottom

Feels the whole

…

Wrenching longing

To be

To do

One dream, ten dreams

Ninety-two

…

Unwrapped talents

Unused skills

Passions passing

Dropped

In sills

…

Deflate, debunk

Denounce, deprive

Straight-jacketed ambition

Cobwebbed drive

…

Deaf ears turned

Curtain drawn

Ninety-two dreams

Left unspawned