Special Selection for the 2022/2023 Winter Holiday Issue
Poetry by Ralph La Rosa
(with apologies to Emily Dickinson)
O my dear Prodigious Elf
That merry month is here.
I madly hope You’ll gift myself
With what I’d like—this Year—
A brand-new feeder for my birds
The Phoebes and the Hummers—
Happy wingèd—little—Bards
In Choirs every Summer.
On Wizards of the World’s best Words
Bestow the Wit to Weave—
Worthy webs from their Word-Hoards
That Measure Man’s beliefs.
And lastly—let One—realize
How Chill a life can be
Without those sometimes—sunny—Smiles
That rarely shine on me.
Ralph La Rosa’s poetry appears widely on the Internet, in print journals and anthologies, and in the chapbook Sonnet Stanzas and full-length collections Ghost Trees and My Miscellaneous Muse.
