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Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele
Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele
(April 4th,1953 / Montgomery, AL)
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Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele Poems
- Any Other Name A charred piece of bread doesn't care if it ...
- Manifestation Of A Buddha A child missing for a year in ...
- Poverty Is Not An infectious disease spread through the ...
- From The Inside Out – An Autis... The autistic child’s ...
- A Little Blue Shell A fragile robin’s egg lies in my path, ...
- Dream Pockets Awakened in haste, I threw my cotton ...
- It's Just Blood I had just accidentally smashed my ...
Retired FEMA inspector, environmentalist, activist, Unitarian Universalist, special education teacher and poet, lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama. I have attended workshops with Franz Wright in Provincetown, MA in Oct.2005 and with Robert Pinsky in Camden, NJ at Rutgers in 2005. I am published in Write On, Poetic Hours, Penwood Review, Down in the Dirt, Distinguished Writings, Bell's Letters, Alabama Anthology 2006 and Alabama Poet's Society 2006. I have a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Penn State University and a Masters in Education from Alabama State University. more »
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Any Other Name
A charred piece of bread doesn't care
if it is given the name of “toast.”
Neither does a bird pause its song
to see itself properly identified
in little Darwinian field books. A flower
will open to the sun, unseen by human eyes.
A man, however, whose particular scent
and soul are not memorable, wilts,
decomposing cell by cell, the
divine fire smothered out.
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Thank you Madhabi Banerjee!
thanks. I love your poem and enjoy much
Thanks, I deeply enjoyed your poem. This is a fascinating true story that I also read about, and believe on his rebirth in a new body. I came to read your poem as a cross reference from my poem on Lord Buddha. Please come to read mine.
Technically sound but spontaneous as a hot ember after a fire, Cheryl's poetry pushes the limits of the American-English dialect. By combining the structural soundness of a studied poet with the curious wonder of a child-like spirit, her work illustrates the potential of the American mind.
While Cheryl does God’s work “for a living, ” the youthful exuberance of her creative writing, juxtaposed with an honest real-world perception, conveys an indomitable joy that dwells in her heart- in defiance of troubling realties- to produce poetry that should stand strong among the treasures of the American canon.
Or, more accurately and concisely, what Carole said: >)
rebirthing without a psychiatrist or midwife