JIM BROSNAN - POEMS

Jim Brosnan’s publishing credits include Nameless Roads (Moon Pie Press, 2019), four chapbooks of poetry and over 500 poems most recently appearing in the Aurorean, The Avocet, The Bridge, Eunoia Review (Singapore), Nine Muses Poetry (Wales), Strand (India), Voices of the Poppies Anthology (UK) and forthcoming in the Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada). Jim has won numerous awards in the annual National Federation of Poetry Societies competition. He holds the rank of full professor of English at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI.

​Exploring the Edge of Sentiment

I search online
for forgotten lyrics
that my heart 
remembers--
the chorus of a song
that visualizes
fragmentary images
of constellations
filled with fireflies.
I will continue
to photograph
the rolling vineyards
of Missouri, hum
the notes of Save
the Last Dance for Me,
wait for your return.

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Early June
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Beneath rock-strewn
mountains, I stare
at rolling meadows
of marsh marigolds,
smooth woody asters,
sagebrush, and ring
grass sunflowers, 
linger at the edge 
of Wyoming plains, 
look for stray moose 
or elk, admire tinted 
red swirls in western skies, 
try to find the right word 
or phrase to describe
the color of this sunset
when I reach for the evening
stars as my shadow disappears
like yesterday’s promises
to meet here again.
Who listens to the river’s
secrets the morning after?


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Interstate Chatter
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Weary from the long
night’s drive
through Kansas
in a convoy
hammering 
down I-70,
I am anxious
this morning
to measure the miles
east without storm 
clouds chasing
my shadow
as my mind returns 
to the silence
of uneasy dreams,
returns to fleeting
moments
in other places
where whispers
aren’t heard.

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