Shadows Beyond Paradise

Five more days — A Poem

Brooke Ramey Nelson
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Two weeks

Front
“Porch”
Sitting

Aloha-Style,
on the lanai above
the street

whose name
means
“sweet voice or echoing sea”,

has brought
me
Peace

in
Paradise.

Don’t
know
what gremlins

await me
on
the

Mainland.

Shadows, I suppose.

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Brooke Ramey Nelson
ILLUMINATION

Native Texan & Mizzou Journalism grad. I’ve worked in newspapers, politics, PR & as a high school pubs adviser/AP English teacher. TOP WRITER?