Kim Lavallee

Valleyfield, Quebec

Kim Lavallee, Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada, 18 years old; pen name Zazu. Occupation: work along with my mother, we own a foster family for mentally ill patients. I am as well a part time nanny. Education: attended Ormstown Elementary, Gault Institute, Chategauy Valley Regional High, and Vaudreuil Catholic High. Membership: I belong to the McGill Reach Camp program for science. Publishers: The National Library of Poetry, Illiad Press, Logan Publications, and Quill Books. Published In: I've been published in our local newspapers, I won the Editor's Choice Award in 1994 and 1996, I also won the President Award for Literary Excellence two years in a row (1995 and 1996). I was granted an Honorable Mention for "Being Understood", I also won the 1994 Iliad award program. And recently I was bestowed the honor of being inducted in the International Poetry Hall of Fame. "I believe being granted the gift of expression upon paper to see the power of emotion and being able to feel it through another's eyes but put into your words and released upon paper is one of God's greatest gifts."

Mischievous Good-bye

The phone rings once,
twice, and on the line
a womenÕs voice a stranger
IÕm sure she asks for him
he speaks with her,
he rushes to change his
clothes I choose not to
impose, he leaves an hour
or two or three, and
as he enters the house
upon the wind a strange
new perfume blows,
Yet I choose not to
know however sadness fills
my eyes and as he
passes me by he
says not a word and
with the blink of an eye
and a sigh I know
this means good-bye.

The Words of a Lonely Heart

There has been a chain
of events which have
occurred and I seem to
be in the middle, yet
I feel as though IÕm
not even there, like
its simply a daydream
that youÕll awake from,
the words of a
lonely heart are now
being spoken without
hesitation or precaution,
and yet to say I
understand would be a
lie, for I know
not why they are
now being spoken they
confuse my thoughts and
break my heart even
more to know my love is
for another I can not
be his lover nor can
I love him freely
if he wonÕt let
me see within him.