Able Muse - marcus smith https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/131/131? en Lonely She https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/marcus-smith/lonely-she? <h2><p>Lonely She</p></h2> <p>Lonely, she climbs a mountain:<br> At the top, in mirror blue air,<br> Her cloud-white breath disappears—<br> She is nothing and does not care.</p> <p>The neighboring mountains shrug,<br> Old men playing solitaire;<br> On her bare peak a single shrub<br> Shrivels in the sun’s cold glare.</p> <p>The view of empyrean expands<br> Below the same sky everywhere:<br> She is nothing and nobody—<br> A spirit freed that does not care.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/marcus-smith/lonely-she?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/marcus-smith/lonely-she?#comments Poetry lonely she marcus smith poems v6 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:54:52 +0000 Administrator 98 at https://www.ablemuse.com Marcus Smith https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/bio/marcus-smith? <p>Marcus Smith’s poetry and reviews have appeared in many journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including  <em>Poetry Salzburg Review</em>, <em>Greensboro Review</em>, <em>Acumen,</em> <em>The Lyric and The Classical Outlook.</em>  Recent publications and commendations include a “Poetry on the Lake” prize (Italy),  <em>The Southern Poetry Review</em>’s contest, <em>Atlanta Review’s</em> tenth anniversary anthology, The Thomas Hardy Society and The Ledbury Poetry Festival. He is a contributing editor to <em>Hunger Mountain.</em></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/bio/marcus-smith?#comments Bios bio lonely she marcus smith poems v6 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:52:54 +0000 Administrator 97 at https://www.ablemuse.com