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!