History as Poetry

 History as Poetry

 

                        

Are you the one who stashes your dreams,
at bottoms of rivers, or star-striped streams?
Are your memories of days long-past
written on sea-foams, where moonlight’s cast?
Tell me who you are… Tell me who you are…
What is your place in the sky?
When did dusk or dawn first color each eye?
How brightly burns your star?
Tell me who you are… Tell me who you are…
Where is the place you will rest your breath?
What sings sparrows of life or death?
Will your feet in the snow trail near or far?
Tell me who you are… Tell me who you are…


---Michael Mauro DeBonis, 09-25-2022.






About the Poet: Michael Mauro DeBonis is a poet and a historian from Long Island, New York. A graduate of both Suffolk County Community College (A. A. in Liberal Studies) and SUNY at Stony Brook (B. A. in English literature), Michael’s work first appeared in the Village Beacon Record and in the Brookhaven Times Newspapers. His current work (poetry and prose) may be found in The New York History Review and elsewhere. Mr. DeBonis is dedicated to studying and to learning the history of the great State of New York.