Rosemarie Casaula

Smithtown, New York

Rosemarie is a retired grandmother of two and is still writing poetry at age 60. She had some of her work published by The National Library of Poetry. Writing clearly became an outlet for Rosemarie since she began writing at age 33. She believes there is nothing that can touch an individual more than a poet's special words and sensitivity in expressing an experience or emotion. Rosemarie says, "Poetry to me always was and still is a shared interlude of a brief glimpse of one of the many facets which emanate from every persons' inner heart and soul."

Unanswered Longing

When yearning is blind
When it knows not its goal
An abyss you will find
Just a dark empty hole
For as blindly you grope
In unending despair
A poor soul with no hope
For naught else will you care
As you pour out your life
For what it not there

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When together are we
In a tender embrace
And we whisper our words
And our hearts interlace
We become then as one
And our hearts do unite
Drops of dew we are then
That do merge and delight
In the joy of each other
We do revel as the dew
As we touch and feel as one
And then part again as two

Joy

Ah but how my heart does vibrate now
Like a bell struck with a golden hammer
Its tone emitting from around it now
As ripples round a stone when thrown into a sea
Reaching with its resounding song all parts of me
Euphoric now and filled with joy for all tomorrows
To live them each and every new dawn with glee
This core of mine does ring, its golden timbre sings from within
For happiness is what it feels, it's then the golden hammer strikes
Oh to have it always so -for it's joy and gladness my heart most likes

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Oh paradise that to me you alone have shown
In my heart now shall I keep the memory
Like a cherished song, a melody that's mine alone
When heart is tender, mine to hum in my reverie
Oh land of Eden where you alone have led me
A stranger to this place of beauty was I
And tenderly its' lovely wondrous paths you showed me
In heaven while with you there felt I
Oh paradise though mine for just a visit
Forever shall I keep it locked in a corner of my heart
And the Golden Key I'll keep when need be to open it
To let its tender, warm Heavenly bliss to me impart