Peony
In decline
you are a glory
I have watched
the changing story
of your beauty’s
slow emergence
over time
pink rose rust
never losing leaf
or petal
your stem
still green still fine
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Donna Hilbert’s latest book is Enormous Blue Umbrella, Moon Tide Press, 2025. Work has appeared in journals and broadcasts including Eclectica, Gyroscope, Rattle, Sheila Na Gig, ONE ART, Cholla Needles, TSPoetry, VerseDaily, Vox Populi, The Writer’s Almanac, anthologies including Boomer Girls, The Widows’ Handbook, The Poetry of Presence I & II, The Path to Kindness, The Wonder of Small Things, Love Is For All Of Us, What the House Knows, Poetry Goes The Movies. She writes and leads workshops from her home base in Long Beach, California.
From The Archives: Published on This Day
- Alone in the ER by Rob Greene (2024)
- Two Poems by Gary Fincke (2024)
- Five Poems by KHD (2023)
- Two Poems by Kip Knott (2023)
- One Poem by Donna Hilbert (2022)
Delicately beautiful, a wonder. Thank you.
Thanks Donna and One Art! Beautiful landing here, and I love the movement here, the space too.
One of the first poets I loved was William Carlos Williams. This poem has the precision of his work. Brava!
Michael, I am tearing up!
Me, too! What a great compliment and how apt!