Mirella Segalotto Goben

Humeston, Iowa

Mirella was born and raised in Germany.  She is the mother of four children: Frank, Michael, Allen, and Sherry.  Mirella is a graduate from Graceland College, Lamoni, IA.  Her majors are commercial art and publication design.   Mirella's poetry has been published in several anthologies and special edition of The National Library of Poetry.  She also won the Editor's Choice Award in four consecutive years.  Other publications
are by the Newera of Humeston, IA and the Tower which is a Graceland publication.   Mirella loves art.  She hopes her poetry will touch your soul.

Lovers at War

We fought a long and bitter war
My true love and I;
And in the end we both had lost
As time had passed us by.

As night fell on us, our souls had
died
When after lost love
Our hearts cried and cried.

We fought a long  and bitter war
My true love and I;
We fought a long and bitter war
before we said
"Good Night."

...and so the night comes
And takes us away
To fantasy realms untold,
And as we float on magic dreams
Our lives quickly grow old.

O sweet love of mine, I need you
now
Ere everything slips away;

What we deem most, we have the
least:
TIME
         TIME
                  TIME.

Brother, Sister You Say!

When, Where, Whom

When you kill each other

Anywhere, anytime

"For your color is just not like mine!"

Or your lips utter sounds so strange

Brother, Sister You say

But Why!?