This year's Editor's Choice Award goes to Liz Dolan for her poem "The Humble Do Not Fear Failure." Liz Dolan’s first poetry collection, They Abide, was nominated for The Robert McGovern Prize, Ashland University. Her second, A Secret of Long Life, nominated for a Pushcart, has been published by Cave Moon Press. A nine-time Pushcart nominee and winner of Best of the Web, she was a finalist for Best of the Net 2014. She won The Nassau Prize for Nonfiction, 2011, and the same prize for fiction, 2015.
The
Humble Do Not Fear Failure
by Liz
Dolan
March
and
I'm still
waiting
for the amaryllis
on
the sill to bloom
as
it did last winter.
Another
slender green stem
sprouts.
Lovely so!
But
not the golden goblet
of
last year's frosty gloom.
I've
sprinkled stardust,
chanted
psalms,
danced
fandangos.
I've
entreated
trees,
stones,
whoever/whatever
will listen.
I've
even worshiped turtles, frogs, lit candles to tarantulas.
But
the red-winged seraphs guffaw
clutch
their sides
laugh
at my pleas. “Stay on your knees,” they say.
What
I force always fails.
Too
late I've learned
to
wait.
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