EVA WALDAUF

 

Dancing Waves

my love and partner dialing oldies, 

WW2 era tunes, on his cell speaker,

rouses my craving to dance with him,

lightheartedly, clasping one another, we venture a spin,

giggling and chuckling at our fumbled attempt

before long, we're escaping to Second Beach,

revel in blazing sun and balmy breezes,

beyond the cusp of September, drifting in 

ocean's undulations, tide jumping in seaweed,

crisp, briny waters refreshing our souls

Worship

opalescence, semi-precious stones, amethyst and 

aquamarine, hills, arcades and domes,

ancient temple rising up, to the Goddess of beauty,

fertility and love, Aphrodite

now abandoned, unvisited, yet it maintains it's style,

grace and presence, a place to explore silently

and wonder at citizens who created sanctuary,

how they persisted and worshiped ages ago

a living township, windows warmly lit, peoples'

silhouettes in doors and interiors, arched doorways 

in high walls, all border the holy place,

hill hulking behind it, almost inaccessible, even so

hundreds of lives flowed through it, as yet many do 

Snippets

perhaps entrance, struts, catwalk, large windows,

modern homes, office towers, ship masts at daybreak,

float, predawn yellow, steam on water,

rising up to bleached blue jean sky, blanched,

vanishing again to air or ocean or islands or homes, far below

people implicit through not revealed, still abed in early hours,

their creations seemingly throughout, drawn curves and rule straight, 

supports, snippets of function, blurred out, surreal, 

against harsh black and pumpkin orange, a place to ponder, 

a wisp of fresh air, window open to imagination and dreaming

EVA WALDAUF

EVA WALDAUF is a poet and visual artist, born in Toronto, Canada. She moved to western Canada, to Vancouver in 1993, with her first husband and first cat. In her middle years, after her divorce, she found love again. Eva discovered she also loved poetry and had a desire to write, after attending Simon Fraser University. In and around Vancouver, Eva has featured at diverse poetry events for 18 years. Eva continues to write poems, perform, create collages and show her art. Her latest poetry features were: Spoken Ink November 2024, Art and Poetry in the Gallery July 2024, Quills Pandemic Issue launch January 2023 and Writers International Network Gala, December 2022, where she received a Distinguished Poet Award. Waldauf's poetry is published in magazines and journals, including Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine (Pandemic issue) December 2023, Poetry Breakfast June 2023 and Our Poetry Archive Oct 2022. Silver Bow Publishing, among others, has included her poems in several anthologies, titled Royal City Poets and Mind Paintings.  Atlantic Adventures & Big City Romance is her second, most recent book of poetry. She is a Director of Pandora's Collective Outreach (Writers).