Gloria

By Doug Tanoury

Voice bunched and mixed
Together like cut flowers
In Spring

And I am awed by what
Comes forth from Gloria
What life

Is born what thoughts
Arise from a word of praise
That echoes

Now in my chest and
Pulses through my veins
The light

Reflected in my eyes
A gesture and spoken
Word

And the soft sound of one
Mountain moving toward
The hills.

Doug Tanoury, grew up in Detroit and still lives in the area with his wife and three children.

Doug has been published in Writer's Digest, Ego Flights Alura Quarterly and A Year On The Avenue (Two Dog Press). Online he has been published by The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Eclectica, Poetry Magazine, Agnieszka's Dowry, Recursive Angel, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks and others.

The greatest influence on Doug and his work was the 7th grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of

Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company.

Athens Avenue Poetry Circle at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6915/

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