The Tookany Review
Fall/Winter 2005 Poetry written by Cheltenham Adult School Workshop Participants
poems
In this issue
Mary Brucker
Edited by Deborah Fries
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Mary Brucker
Two poems
September Dance
That month so warm, so welcoming.
Leaves shown, slowly changing their clothes.
For brilliant greens to multi colors of reds, oranges, yellows
They undress.
They fluttered, slowly begin their dance.
Their dance, they would do, growing
Wilder and faster.
As the weeks turn to months.
But for now, they tug and sway away from their branches.
Like a baby weaned from its mother and learning to walk,
Leaves show their dance in pride.
Chorus dazzling.
They surf on the warm welcoming breeze.
Sonnet: Silent Addiction
You think you'd need this to live.
You think it wouldn't cause you to die.
Life, it's intent to give.
A trap you don't realize.
It's delectable sights and smells a pleasure.
You do not know your prison unseen.
Taste relapsing into lethargic leisure.
Saps precious hopes and dreams.
Then one day you gasp and stare.
The bars so strong and many.
Once pleasure, now long despair.
Locked into addictive frenzy.
The key lies in your hand.
To break these choking strands.
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Mary Brucker is a resident of the Jenkintown area who frequently performs in local venues -- reading her poetry, singing and playing guitar. For the past 20 years, she has had a career in social work, primarily working with the elderly. Her poems have appeared online at Canisluna Works in Progress.