"A Perfect Peach" and "Now The Stars Hide"

New Poetry from The Metropolitan Review

Still Life With Peach And Plums by Oliver Clare

Please enjoy these heavily imagistic poems by Nolo Segundo.

—The Editors

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A Perfect Peach

Picture a perfect peach,
with color both subtle
and bold, a shape perfect 
to behold, and a taste
like Heaven foretold…

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Now The Stars Hide

I grew up in the countryside
on a farm with the nearest
neighbor a quarter mile away.
Every night the stars shone, 
unreachable precious jewels
adorning eternity—and I felt
very, very small and yet,
strangely, also very, very old
and more, oh so much more
than my daytime self drunk
on the petty and the mundane.  

Now I live on a quarter acre
with neighbors on my left and
neighbors on my right and 
neighbors across the street and
a big city so close it cloaks even
the light of night-born stars and
I am left only with the memory
of eternity….

Nolo Segundo is the pen name of a retired teacher who in his 8th decade became a published poet in more than 260 literary journals in 21 countries, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net, and has 3 collections published in softcover by Cyberwit.net: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE; OF ETHER AND EARTH; and SOUL SONGS.