"Poetry is the Music of the Soul..." --Voltaire
Author: dhenning
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“Tremolo”: Memoir Magazine
Psychological Perspectives
Artemis Journal
The Adirondack Review
Local author Dianna Henning’s book “Cathedral of the Hand,” has received an extremely positive review by Bob Stanley. See article in the Lassen Times: https://www.lassennews.com/local-authors-book-receives-stunning–review/
Just published in Poemeleon a journal for poetry. Part of the museum and poetry compilations called “The Plague Papers.” You can read it here: https://poemeleon.me/van-goghs-the-potato-eaters-dianne-mackinnon-henning
Animal Mission
In the beginning there was promise.
We lived together in harmony,
took only what was needed and that was sufficient.
The Shepherd walked with his sheep,
animal spirit commingling with human spirit,
breath of the sacred between them.
We suffered when we stopped seeing
everything as part of us,
when we thought human greater,
therefore, separate and superior.
The Shepherd set down his water horn,
gave up daily treks over green hills.
He forgot his thirst for clear streams.
Forgot what the earth told his feet.
This division split our spirits,
and the animals cried for their people.
A fracture grew between nations.
At night the animals pined for us to enter their lives,
but we’d forgotten the wholeness of the world,
and for this the animals continue to weep.
Poetry Pacific 2020