Living Gems/ Her Strength in me / Untitled – Poems by VEARNA GLOSTER

Living Gems

 

Lullabies I sang to them

All knit I with the same glue

I watched them grow from a distance clear

Many times with a shattered heart,

I feared

 

I taught them how to sing and dance

I played as their sibling in the sand

But with the moments fleeting by

Each parting goodbye was a resounding cry within my heart

And knew too well

Also within theirs

 

To grow with love and beauty dears

I pray that you would.

And one day learn,

The mystery of our broken home

Then yet forgive a mother’s stand

To have her children grow with peace of mind!

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Her Strength in me

 

Mother, your love never left.

For each day it came dazzling through my fractured soul

To soothe me from the taint of wrongs

They have piled upon my pretty gown.

 

When I am bowed in despair

In my blood, you stir

Making me know you are here.

And in your strength I slowly rise

Facing another day,

To my surprise!

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Untitled

 

She was everything he needed

He mused how it all came together

Yet unable to understand its entirety

His acceptance was real

 

Her laughter

It was a delightful sound he had missed

This too, was a kiss

A kiss to his heart, which warmed and stirred his own joy

 

He smiled,  eyes glassy as he was intoxicated by her aura

By her unique stare, by the way she ate and by things she didn’t say

 

He simply sought balance… and in her, this he had found.

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Vearna Gloster has been writing short stories and poems since in high school. She has a very vivid imagination and would usually write out how she felt whenever she was unable to express herself verbally.  Vearna was featured in the Sunday Express Mix Music Section at #1 on the top 12 Indigenous Chart for her piece on ‘Honey’, capturing the state of our local honey industry in November 2014.  She has been an awardee in the Special Prize Category of the NIHERST Prime Minister’s Awards for Scientific Ingenuity in 2015 with her Solar Bee Hive Vent and  was featured in the Plenty Sport E-zine Issue #19 in January 2016 as  ‘ The Honey Bee Runs! As an independent Researcher in the beekeeping field, she is currently working on “An Introduction to Honeybee Botany in Trinidad and Tobago”.

She is a forthcoming author of the ‘Sun Goddess’, her first poetry collection.