Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jody Talibart has been writing professionally for over 20 years. A published BC poet and journalist, Jody worked for many years as a magazine Editor and has many feature story articles to her credit in widely-read publications. She was nominated for a national award of excellence in Journalism and has been interviewed on several Vancouver radio stations for her news-breaking editorial. With a decade of writing experience in the marketing communications and public relations industry and eight years of corporate communications success, Jody is currently a freelance writer for a Vancouver-based organizations and focuses her talent on the non-profit sector for causes that are near and dear to her heart. She spends her days off working on her own literary projects, including a novel in progress, and of course, poetry.
There are times in one's life, sometimes fleeting,
where it seems as though a camera shutter snaps
and they are locked forever in memory.
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Quiet as the stars
submerged in the human ocean, undetected
until blood washed up and revealed
malicious, scheming, multiplying destruction,
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The bluebells now have finally gone
back to the earth that bore them,
all my life I’ll dread their bloom
for they mark a time of mourning.
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In the hushed privacy of night
my heartbreak at last overflowed
bursting forth like a wild river, undammed.
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I need to lie down and close the eyes of my eyes.
I need to slam the doors on what breaks me; to paint my mother’s face in my mind.
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