Lizzy’s Sonnet
Seemingly no place to go That inner voice now quiet, asleep While rages ‘round the burlesque show That is life, the one that’s kept Alive from day to day And night to night Fear held at bay By dreams of light Then comes that time of ecstasies When waking into dreams Released, the demon flees, Life set free in streams And morning washed with cleansing tears Comes healing from the nightmare fears
Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis, emerged as a poet in 2019, beginning with the publication on January 2 of three poems in The Write Launch. Since then, his poetry has been published in Frost Meadow Review‘s Pandemic Poetry, October Hill, Cathexis Northwest, Meat for Tea, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Esthetic Apostle, and three anthologies. Russell grew up in and around Texas, was vocationally scattered throughout the Southwest and Great Plains for many years, and is now settled in Vermont with his wife, Dawn.
Grand Little Things 