The April Selected Poet is Ron Koppelberger

Please feel free to email Ron at: will806095@bellsouth.net

TWILIGHT ROSE

The gift of inner sustenance and souls
Aflame by the frayed design of midnight deep,
A mercy made perfect by the virgin lines of
Youth and the spaces between today and tomorrow,
A reverberating dominion given the crimson
Twilight rose and the shadow of a ghost in
Dreamy darkness.

EVENING WHISPERS

The heat in shallow flashes of twilight, a hairbreadth of
Orange akin to the ghosts of grieving suns and dawn’s
Battle, wrought unto the simmering tongue of a black eyed
Raven in curious foray between the place where
We were born to imagine and the place we were meant
To measure by the width of a bidden dream, of shadow and
Moon-glow reverie, a sound given the heartbeat
Of evening whispers, through the calm of a mystery
In fires of swamp morass and ancient
Sylvan egress, by the way of select
Silhouettes gone along the trail
Unto life and death.

VOODOO DREAM

Spun by ebony threads in a voodoo dream,
By perfumed Hyacinth blooms and burlap cloaks of
Scarecrow design, the pin and needle by
Garlic seed and horseradish flavor,
The breath of a witch and wicked measures of
Bat blood.

BALANCED BREATH

The darkness in dances of ownership provoked by claims
Of scarlet robins in flight, closer to the will of an
Unbidden heart, a fable found in fear of innocence
And swirling heavens alight by riot and fires of
Falling glances, by the tempest in wanton harmonies
Of ash, tears and rain, by the frayed boundaries of an echoing
Song sung in tale bearing call unto eternal shades
Of autumn night and the abandon in mischief and
Wonting hungry avatars of balanced breath, a manifest drama
Of ethereal illusion and spun silken webs

Ron Koppelberger is aspiring to become established as a poet and a short story writer. He has written 99 books of poetry over the past several years and 17 novels and he has been submitting his work for the past year and a half. He is thrilled by acceptance. He is always looking for an audience. He has published 378 poems, 210 short stories and 58 pieces of art in over 97 periodicals, books and anthologies.

He has been published in The Storyteller, Ceremony, Write On!!! (Poetry Magazette), Freshly Baked Fiction and Necrology Shorts. He recently won the People’s Choice Award for poetry in The Storyteller for a poem titled "Secret Sash." He has had his work published in many countries, including the United States, England, Australia, Canada and Thailand. He is a member of The American Poet’s Society as well as The Isles Poetry Association.