Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

Montgomery, AL

Overview Activity Biography Poems Comments Following Followers Statistics Download E-books

Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

Montgomery, AL

Overview Poem Activity

Quotes Biography Comments Videos Following Followers Statistics

Best Poem Of Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

A Little Blue Shell

A fragile robin’s egg lies in my path, unbroken

about forty-five feet below it’s mother’s nest.

Stepping over the unseen fetus, the first rays

of dawn reflected it’s tranquil blue, cooler than

the required mother’s 104 degree feathered belly.

No more than fourteen short days before escape

from that hollow inside to inevitable blue skies.

Then, there must be feedings every fifteen minutes.

Impossible to even contemplate.

Now late for my classroom full of disabled

children, also demanding attention, slowly learning

their way out, I hurry along surprised

to find my palm cradling a tiny blue shell.

Rating: ★5

Popularity

Biography

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 ...

Popular Poems

Manifestation Of A Buddha

★ ★

A child missing for a year in remote Nepal,
re-emerges now 'The Enlightened one, '
the reincarnated Buddha, cross-legged
beneath a tree. No sign of ten months
...

From The Inside Out – An Autistic View

★ ★

The autistic child’s fingers fly across
the keys releasing inaudible syllables
of joy, floating upward between
his fingers.
...

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
...

A Little Blue Shell

★ ★

A fragile robin’s egg lies in my path, unbroken

about forty-five feet below it’s mother’s nest.
...

Dream Pockets

★ ★

Awakened in haste,
I threw my cotton sheets
into random creases, capturing
my startled dreams.
...

See Full List

Comments

Cheryl Lynn Moyer-peele 29 January 2017

Thank you Madhabi Banerjee!

0 0 Reply

Madhabi Banerjee 29 January 2017

thanks. I love your poem and enjoy much

0 0 Reply

Tushar Ray 19 February 2015

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.

0 0 Reply

Chris Mendros 23 July 2008

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: >)

Profile of Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

Comments