Jody Talibart

Jody Talibart Poems

There are times in one's life, sometimes fleeting,
where it seems as though a camera shutter snaps
and they are locked forever in memory.
...

Quiet as the stars
submerged in the human ocean, undetected
until blood washed up and revealed
malicious, scheming, multiplying destruction,
...

The bluebells now have finally gone
back to the earth that bore them,
all my life I’ll dread their bloom
for they mark a time of mourning.
...

In the hushed privacy of night
my heartbreak at last overflowed
bursting forth like a wild river, undammed.
...

I need to lie down and close the eyes of my eyes.

I need to slam the doors on what breaks me; to paint my mother’s face in my mind.
...

Amber wings waft through my door
before The Scissors come cut out my breath
and rip the blanket from my grasp
that lies upon the sodden floor.
...

I’d guess she was about ten or eleven years old,
skipping along to her dad’s long stride,
holding his hand and oblivious for a sweet while
to the taunting, whispers and giggles she must get from her classmates.
...

Hours of listening to the crickets and their revelations,
with heads bent over pots of tea,
and innumerable tempests in the china cups we dropped in the grass, were not enough to embitter you from cutting the crusts off my bread, nor the countless little idiosyncrasies which you so tenderly indulged, with the grace of Saint Peregrine, under the shade of the weeping willow tree of my childhood.
...

How is it that letting go, and hanging on,
can be so different and yet painful in equal measure.
Why is hello as gut-wrenching to me as good-bye.
Can each feeling be as difficult as the next
...

I said good-bye to a friend yesterday
and I didn't cry,
no I didn't descend into my catacomb of life's losses
or uncork the bottle of tears I've been saving
...

Jody Talibart Biography

Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jody Talibart has been writing professionally for over 20 years. A published BC poet and journalist, Jody worked for many years as a magazine Editor and has many feature story articles to her credit in widely-read publications. She was nominated for a national award of excellence in Journalism and has been interviewed on several Vancouver radio stations for her news-breaking editorial. With a decade of writing experience in the marketing communications and public relations industry and eight years of corporate communications success, Jody is currently a freelance writer for a Vancouver-based organizations and focuses her talent on the non-profit sector for causes that are near and dear to her heart. She spends her days off working on her own literary projects, including a novel in progress, and of course, poetry.)

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A Sunset Of A Different Kind

There are times in one's life, sometimes fleeting,
where it seems as though a camera shutter snaps
and they are locked forever in memory.

There was a sunset once, of a different kind.
Lake Memphremagog, July,1986.
I sat on what seemed like the edge of the world,
or perhaps the centre of it,
on a stone made smooth by centuries,
and so leant to me by time.

There was no horizon,
the above met the below in one furious solid blaze.
The sun sat before me and we, like lovers in a bistro,
gazed into each other's eyes.

I cried. No one heard.
I saw between life and death
in a watery reflection on Lake Memphremagog,
in July of 1986, when the world came to meet me
and held me for a moment in her wisdom.
And I knew what the rock had known forever,
what the trees and the clouds have always known.

That was a sunset of a different kind,
for the world came to meet me on that crimson lake
and left me too soon,
and left me changed.

Jody Talibart Comments

Dickson Mseti 26 April 2010

POETS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON. LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEY ARE LIKE SOLDIERS IN WAR.THEY RESCUE EACH OTHER, HELP EACH OTHER AND DIE FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.THANK YOU FOR BEING A POET.

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