The Brilliance of Life by Jeff Flesch

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The Brilliance of Life
by Jeff Flesch
[author’s site]

My heart breaks
with every
breath I take,
and though
I’ll keep moving,
there are times when
I just sit still,
and let the emotions
wash over me
bruising me left and right,
and, no, I don’t
put up a fight.

Those days
are long past,
lost along the way,
as the self that I
once was,
let go of me so hard,
it left me feeling
quite jumbled,
and at times,
feeling awfully
crumbled.

Heart breaking

again and again,
millions of ways
I couldn’t see coming,
it’s a miracle,
I feel, often,
that I’m still humming,
as I continue
becoming

something

other
than yesterday,
is all I can say,
wondering
in amazement at
the brilliance
of life today

@Jeff Flesch

ABOUT US 

Welcome to MasticadoresUSA.

MasticadoresUSA was founded by Juan Re Crivello as part of Gobblers/Masticadores in 2021. Its current editor is Gabriela Marie Milton.

MasticadoresUSA features talented writers of poetry and short prose. We primarily publish writers who write in English, and are based in the USA. However, while the publication language remains English, we also welcome the work of our fellow writers from all over the world.

What do we want to bring to our readers? Edgar Allan Poe once wrote: Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. This is what we are committed to bringing to you. And that’s not an easy endeavor. 

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES 

If you want to submit, please send your work – poetry and/or short prose – to gabrielamariemilton@gmail.com. In addition to the piece(s), you want to have published, we need your name, and the address of your site. Submit your work as a docx attachment – not in the body of the email. Limit your submission to two pieces.  We do not accept pieces longer than 300 words.

What are the themes that we are looking for? Surprise us!

However, MasticadoresUSA does not publish any work that contains racist, homophobic, sexist, and hate talk of any kind.

Looking forward to your submissions.