Journey by Beverly M. Collins

Clouds move brisk on their way to

a gathering. All precipitation-on-deck!

There will be rain storms to tend

to and strikes of lightening will be needed.

As I relaxed on the grass with my friends,

I watched intently as a cloud with the

appearance of an elephant-with-a-

Giraffe’s-neck, spun its way into their meeting.

Do clouds look down and wonder what we

really are or can they see through our disguises?

Do our biggest dreams hover in plain view?

Can clouds detect that a waitress running down the

sidewalk, is really a dancer?

When they retire into a drought periodically, is it

to remind us of the water that we’ve wasted?

Do they smile at our rain dance and forgive?

When I am flying in a plane, I am in awe to be on

their level without the slightest thought of ever

being their equal.

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Beverly M. Collins is the Author of the books, Quiet Observations: Diary thought, Whimsy and Rhyme and Mud in Magic. Her works have also appeared in California Quarterly, Poetry Speaks! A year of Great Poems and Poets, The Hidden and the Divine Female Voices in Ireland, The Journal of Modern Poetry, Spectrum,  Lummox, The Galway Review (Ireland), Verse of Silence (New Delhi), Merak Magazine (London), Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada), The Wild Word Magazine (Berlin), Indigomania (Australia) and many others.

 Winner of a 2019 Naji Naaman Literary Prize in Creativity (from Lebanon). Collins is also a prize winner for the California State Poetry Society, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, once for Independent Best American Poetry and “short listed” for the 2018 Pangolin Review Poetry Prize (Mauritius).