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Mira N. Mataric, Ph.D, has been continuously published for 60 years: 31 books of poetry, short stories, novels, essays and reviews, including 5 books of translations. She has received more than 20 international awards, including 4 USA Presidential medals. She was a librarian for 14 years at in the National Library of Serbia, Belgrade. In the USA, she has edited a literary magazine for and chaired a non-profit organization, Women in the Arts, while teaching English, Russian, Comparative Literature, Special Education and presently Creative Writing, continuously, as well as actively participating in public poetry readings in the USA and Europe.. |
First Love
It is not crimson red but light pink and blue like Picasso' s early paintings. It smells like snow and early violets and tastes like insecure hope making you feel like singing in the shower.
Mature Love
Although not passionately red it is reassuringly warm like the autumn sun. It smells of verbena and tastes like the soothing herbal tea making you feel like a tired river finally reaching the sea. Late Love
Like a cat soft twilight love crept into me your knife thrust into the flesh of my existence
What is Love?
Love is a frightened shivering bird. Open your heart. Love is a delicate light, a candle in the night a shrine of hope, a slow, sprouting seed. Love is a thorn in the heart. Credits: First Love was published in the Anthology Teen Years by Palabra Productions, Spring 2005, Poetry People, a directory of the Southern California Poets, 2007; Bear Springs; CUB, May 2009. also in the book Seasons of Love, Zora, 2004 and in its Serbian translation in the book Doba ljubavi Zora, 2004 Mature Love was published in the Anthology From Silver Fountains, International Library of Poetry, 2000 and Poetry People, a directory of the Southern California Poets, 2007; Poetry and Cookies Anthology of Altadenian and Pasadenian Poets, 2005, and the books Seasons of Love, 2004 and its Serbian translation Doba ljubavi, 2004. |
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