Mary Angela Nangini

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Mary Angela has completed doctoral studies at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (1995). She has published two poetry books: My Ontario Beautiful (1995) and Woman in Exile (1991) with the Mellen Poetry Press. Her poetry is featured in several anthologies published by The National Library of Poetry including "Best Poems of the 90's," "Best Poems of 1997," and "Best Poems of 1998" and has received nine Editor's Choice Awards. The metacognitive strategy "Being Metaphor" has evolved through her poetry and is central for the development of Human Potential and to harness the Human Shadow. She is an artist, a Gifted Program teacher with Toronto Catholic School Board, President of EDGO (Educators of the Gifted in Ontario), and is listed in the "International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopedia 1997, Eighth Edition." Mary Angela says: "Self-expression through the arts unravels mystery and shapes the human spirit's tendency toward wholeness."

Being Metaphor

As Ombudsman
"being metaphor" bypasses
the limbic system
with its in-built trigger-reaction
function
in dealing with fear and fright
because it allows persons
to personify perceptions
other than their own
as seen from the many
different perspectives.

Nature sifts us
sky, land, water.
fire, wind, ice.
Then offers the choice:
hate...greed...malice...
or bridled love's chalice.

The Trick Of Illusion

like the bite on the apple delicious juicy temptation mouth-watering succulent delicacy a treat until the rot stench hits then you know it's bad and you've been had The trick of illusion? It's the inner hidden core of deception covered over by the outer cosmetic of enticement!

Wiseacre

If only we knew
what we know
when we would
We wouldn't.

But...
we don't
So we do.

Then...
we know
And wish we didn't

law-yer-are?

Hypothetical a situation
could give rise to feelings
circumstantial
moral implications
unrelated to the actual
dealings of the objective
but of the subjective belief system
violated.

Winter Vamps

shimmery freshly iced bony wings poised in flight the apple grove sits on the hill bat skeletons frozen still

Mary Angela welcomes correspondence at marynang@enoreo.on.ca