A Thousand Winters to Summer

by Jacques Fleury 

             As I walked the streets
   Winter underneath my feet
With lingering thoughts
Like past lives incomplete
With beauty hidden underneath my tongue
With dreams as green as my mother’s thumb
I kneel at God’s feet
My breath incomplete
Like a secret defeat
Futility dancing to tomorrow’s beat
Vivid notions to deceit
Dragging in the heart of the midday hour
Stressing the sun’s smirk
Watching winter’s
Swoon…
Then comes summer
          As crescent as candid as the moon
        Like the morning soon
    Creeps out of its cocoon…

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Spirit of Change Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–