Now available in e-book format
NOSTOS by Lauren Jedlan
$7.99
At J. Mark Press we’ve selected Lauren’s poems
for every one of our anthologies that she submitted
poetry to.
Lauren is a formally educated school teacher
gifted with poetic talent. Using penetrating words
alone, Lauren enables us to see through her eyes.
So many of her statements “hit home.” You
can hardly say which poem you like best.
(Originally published in stunning
laminated hard-cover), further enhanced with
some appropriate classic illustrations from the J. Mark Press anthologies
that Lauren has appeared in and won reader-voted awards for.
You will delight in reading NOSTOS . Here is one sample poem
(out of 31 enchanting pages).
Published and won a reader-voted award in
“The Sunlit Path, Best In Poetry 1999, and many more.
published by J.Mark Press 2001. Also included in Lauren’s book,
“Nostos.”
FOG AND ICE
Dear one, I abandoned you when I was too green to know
return is not a simple thing. One travels far, and then,
fate has it so, there is no turning back.
Could I escape this dovecote, I would fly to your feet;
yet, solitude conquered you, devouring your memory of me.
No Argus, you no longer see more than a stranger.
The golden thread in you did not endure, but snapped;
about my heart, instead, it strengthened, tangled with regret.
Not even raging storms, blackening skies, maddening seas,
could drive me home: shipwrecked and forlorn,
I met your signal, of fog and ice.
LAUREN JEDLAN