Excerpt from KotaPress Poetry Anthology Volume 3, 2003
Coin de Mire
Know me through these scattered words
left behind by waves, like shells on a beach
grains of sand falling through an hourglass
ash of life, like dust
remember the moon, how she licked my face
the tides, how they pulled me this way and that
the waves, gentle upon the shore
remember it all
and find me in these words, for one day
they will remind you I was here, I shone
for you, as you did for me, we were stars
and together, we made light
remind me, lest I forget to rage against the dying
of the light, lest I go gently into that good night
lest I forget from whence I came, and you
lest I forget the beauty of you.
Remember.
Coin de Mire appeared in Reflections Quarterly Anthology
of Poetry and Art, Summer Edition, August 2002 (Wordshop Publications,
USA) and in the Tstream Association of Writers Quarterly Journal, Featured
Author Column, Spring Edition, May 2002.
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Candy M. Gourlay is a young South African writer and poet. She was born
on a windy day in the Autumn of 1973 in Johannesburg, where she still
works, writes and lives with her husband and three children. Her work
has appeared in numerous publications world-wide, most recently The Wide
Thinker; Reflections Quarterly Anthology; and Tstream Featured Author
Column. 'The Storm, Deep Water Here: A Collection Of Thought' and her
debut work of creative non-fiction, 'Story of a Girl' is scheduled for
publication late 2002.
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