Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Magical Poetry by Penny Nolte

 

Being.the.traveller


Magical Poetry

A Soft Kiss

Dusk, hour of the rods

When all is peripheral

Near, as yet unclear

Dusk, I let the night embrace me

And so let the daylight disappear

(previously published in Syracuse Review and Anomaly Poetry/Domesticated Primate)


Knowing not Knowing

The candle holder hovers 

About an inch above

The shelf

I know this is a dream

Or there is something behind

Holding it there

And wish I didn’t know

(previously published in Fireflies’ Light)


Graduation Dream

The last month, week, day,

when couples all around us

shed tears and part.

We stay.

“Two of them,” we say,

and fifty years later, still, in love.


© Penny Nolte

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Penny Nolte

Penny Nolte creates gentle narratives of family and place. After a long pause from storytelling, her newest work is found in The Avalon Literary Review, The Writer's Journal, The Macrame Literary Journal, and Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, among others. Originally from upstate New York, with a fortifying decade in Colorado, Penny now calls the Green Mountains of Vermont home.


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