You were mesmerizing
On the dancefloor.
While, I, a wallflower,
Sat by myself
And asked,
"Why could not I
Dance?"
I pictured ourselves
In later years,
Bent and old.
In remorse
I asked why
I have not really learned
When I had the chance.
Faint music plays
From the distance.
On my shoulder lays your arm,
While your waist has my hand.
"Oh, Sweetheart,
Is it too late yet?
Please, teach me!
Teach me how to dance!"
©Maria Evelyn Quilla Soleta
BIO OF
MARIA EVELYN QUILLA SOLETA
MARIA EVELYN QUILLA SOLETA gives thanks to prose and poetry! Motherhood is a calling and subject so close to her heart. She lives in Cavite, Philippines. Her poems are unadorned yet truthful, purposely warm, and witty. People, places, things, and even circumstances give colors to her rhythm and rhymes, stanzas, and lines. She began to write poems when she was six and has published two books on poetry, 'My Twenty Poems' and 'Finding My Heart', (an Amazon bestseller in five categories a few hours after its launching in January 2021.) Her works can be found in many anthology books and journals. Evelyn has also won local and international awards for her name. Her poems resemble the works of a woman poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay.
She says, "Hibiscus is another name for gumamela. If I were a flower, I would be a gumamela! This flamboyant flower comes in different varieties and in lovely colors of red, yellow, pink, orange, white, and even purple. I "Find My Heart" in writing. This THANKFUL heart that is seen in the eyes of my children and beloved ones; this PRAYING heart that is listened to by my Heavenly Father, this GLEEFUL heart prancing with the rushing waves or musing at the vast moonless skies, this EXUBERANT heart eager to open its first bag of fresh anise-coated pretzels, this YEARNING heart with the tender longings of a mother to her own mother or of the touching remembrance of a daughter to her father.. All my life I've always dreamed of becoming an author."
Evelyn's husband Danny, and their four girls Andrea, Guia, Daniella, and Laura, and three grandchildren, Tala and Mayla, and Lucas, keep her inspired to continue this passion of hers-- Writing!
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