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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

IN THE (NEW VERSE) NEWS: SALVATION RINGS ON 5TH


Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

James Penha, Editor THE NEW VERSE NEWS (who by the way is the author of SNAKES and ANGELS: Adaptations of Indonesian Folk Tales, Winner of the 2009 Cervena Barva Press Fiction Contest) has posted a jpg of  my poem "SALVATION RINGS ON FIFTH" this morning.  Check it out: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnewversenews.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fsalvation-rings-on-fifth.html

Here's the original, written 11/24, in anticipation of tonights (11/30) Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center, NYC:



SALVATION RINGS ON FIFTH

( *
avenue
bellringers
chiming
A
ZZZZ
V
dollars
emerge$
$faith
gleams
==
Heaven’s
intermittent
jovial kaddish
looms majestically!
Newsrooms observe:
+ + + + + + + + + + + + +
+ + pilgrims + + + + + + + + +
+ + + + + + + + + queuing + + + +
>|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|<
Rockefeller’s *S*P*R*U*C*E* twinkling
>|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|< >|<
>>>>>>>> underneath? voices <<<<<<<<<
: )       
!WOW!       
X-MAS-SIVE!        
YULE-TIME-ATE!        
ZONIC!       


~ rmh 11/24/2010



Happy Holidays!

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