January 2023
Russel Winick
rvwinick@sbcglobal.net
Bio Note: I recently began writing poetry at nearly age 65, after concluding a long career as a business attorney. But my interest in poetry arose more than fifty years earlier, from reading the work of Langston Hughes and studying the lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel songs in junior high school. My poems have appeared in The Lyric Magazine, Lighten Up Online, and Grand Little Things, in addition to Verse-Virtual and other print and online journals.

If I Would Meet

If I would meet a person
Who approves of all I do,
And agrees with my decisions,
Who likes all of my ideas,
Understands my every feeling,
Laughs routinely at my jokes,
While admiring all I say,

Yes, if I would meet someone like that,
I wonder what I’d think of them?

Flourishing

His life has been a sandy beach,
On which disappointments have come in waves.
Tall, thrashing waves.
But they didn’t cover the entire beach,
Like the sun has.
©2023 Russel Winick
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