Saturday Poetry – ‘I Came Here for Some Answers’ by Lois Roma-Deeley
Saturday Poetry – ‘I Came Here for Some Answers’ by Lois Roma-Deeley
This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘I Came Here for Some Answers’ by Lois Roma-Deeley. Roma-Deeley is an Italian American poet and the author of Like Water in the Palm of My Hand (Kelsay Books, 2022), among other titles. The recipient of a 2016 Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant, she currently serves as the poet laureate of Scottsdale, Arizona.
For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Lois Roma-Deeley’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @jazzycarolanne_with the captivating artwork ‘Tell the Trees’ complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions.
To view the others we have published in this section, go here.
‘I Came Here for Some Answers’ by Lois Roma-Deeley
At the top of the Grand Staircase
in Bryce Canyon
the hoodoos call to one another—these rock waves,
crests of limestone, siltstone, dolomite, mudstone
paralyzed by time, patiently resist the dark night sky.
I came here for some answers.
But if these stone towers and red spires
know anything, they’re not telling me.
I’ve never understood the beauty
of destruction. Shiva’s eye third of wisdom.
Those Tibetan monks who destroy sand mandala
to get healed. The millennia of wind, water and ice
having their way with me. This moment
which will never come again. The weathering
of my life into smaller and smaller pieces
until there is nothing but this silence
whistling past my ears.
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