A Wee Potpourri of Poetry by E. Giordani
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Waiting for Athena
Shall we sing of the knowing gray twinkle in her eye,
that waitng lady, the Athena within
And shall we laugh at her double-edged wit
that draws, cuts, and quaters even time?
And shall we dance her jig, stepping lively
to her fickle rhyme?
And play in the golden heat of summer,
wondering if she shivers at its chill?
And drink the gentle nights away,
musing at the rooftops already covered with snow
before the August corn?
Does she know, does she mourn
waiting for Athena to be born?
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About the Book
This collection of poems runs the gambit from light and funny to thoughtful and serious, demonstrating that within the torrent of every day life lie our own personal pools of self-reflecting poems.
About the Author
A teacher of literature and poetry, he has introduced his students to the multifarios realms of poetry and poets. He has read his poems at coffee houses and other public and academic gatherings. He started and edited the literary magazine at Brooome Community College for twenty years. He is the author of Pocket Full of Tales, a collection of sixteen pieces of short fiction. He has translated and published poems of Hermann Hesse, A native New Yorker, he now loves in up-state New York, although he looks fondly upon his younger years in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Syracuse University. A vetran of the U.S. Army, he attended the Army Language School in Monterey, California.