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Valerie Noir

Valerie Noir feels that words are power, transmuting into an indelible form emotions and moments that could otherwise escape if not given form. For her, writing is as natural as being, serving as a conduit through which she captures, for future reflection and present contemplation, intangibles that are experienced, but often times less intellectual than emotive. She is currently working with her co-author on their third novel while simultaneously searching for venues to share her other forms of written expression.

Apple Blossom End

Like showers of rain
comes the cold, autumnal shades of pain.
Bleeding out my dying days
I am watching fading shadows and light play.

They gather up the red,
another tear I shed.
Under a yellow amber sky
they watch me cry.
All my leaves die
and I will wither in this cold
finding I'm much too old
to really care.

Winter ice freezes around me;
is it a shield or a cage I see?
Will this life I leave
be before I unsheathe
this last fruit dormant so long,
my final apple blossom song, petals
finding a place to belong.
Or will I meet the hand ax metal
and fuel one last fire;

Well at least then
I might be admired.

Copyright Š2005 by Valerie Noir