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In the Flickering by Neetu

June 26, 2025 by Neetu Malik in category Poet's Day by Neetu Malik tagged as art, Caves, distance, echo of love, light, Neetu

In the Flickering

Walk me through
your cave

show me the petroglyphs
the stories
you have laboriously pecked on the walls
with your hammer stone,
carved in the light of a lantern
where shadows cast gloom.

I want to see. I want to run
my warm hands along
cold rocks to decipher forms
and feel their rugged ridges.

This light is dim. I need a better view.
Hold my hand and place it where
the scenes begin
that you have etched, with squinted eyes
by a flickering lamp.

I trace them lightly,
my fingers grow numb—
in your cave’s icy hollows
there is no echo of love,
even your stories are silent.

Are you still here or am I
alone?

Some of Neetu’s Books

Pennsylvania Bards’ Eastern PA Poetry Review 2023

THE OCOTILLO REVIEW SUMMER 2018 VOL 2.2

Let It Shine By Veronica Jorge

November 22, 2017 by Veronica Jorge in category Write From the Heart by Veronica Jorge tagged as light, thanks, Words shine

I knew Sally Paradysz for a brief time, yet I will miss the sweet wedge that she was on, A Slice Of Orange.

I admired her thankful nature; always attune to the many things to be grateful for, and ever aware that brambles and branches are not obstacles, but opportunities for creating new pathways and making marvelous discoveries.

Therefore, I thought it fitting, at this Thanksgiving season, to devote my post to Sally.

Write from the Heart | Veronica Jorge | A Slice of Orange

Gentle, kind and sincere, her writings and comments hinted at something more and offered a glimpse toward something greater. I have to believe that it was her faith in God that inspired her words and her actions.

So, giving thanks is how I will always remember Sally. And I will ever see her and think of her like the image I selected for this post; her words spreading kindness and her open heart and hand sprinkling light and hope on all she knew and touched.

Sally Paradysz, may you rejoice in Paradise.

See you next time on December 22^nd.

Veronica

Veronica Jorge

Manager, Educator, and former High School Social Studies teacher, Veronica credits her love of history to the potpourri of cultures that make up her own life and to her upbringing in diverse Brooklyn, New York. Her genres of choice are Historical Fiction where she always makes new discoveries and Children’s Picture Books because there are so many wonderful worlds yet to be imagined and visited. She currently resides in Macungie, PA.

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