2 Poems by Bruce Levine

Times Remembered

Times remembered
Now repeating
Now receding

Vacant mem’ries
Hollow entries
Long abandoned

Empty journeys
Once remembered
Twice forgotten

Open highways
Never travelled
Dreams forsaken

Faded glories
Full of promise
Now depleted

Long lost treasures
Stolen chances
Dissipating

Silent voices
Empty spaces
Past erases

Times remembered
Now repeating
Now receding


The End of April

Varying shades of green
Leaves unfurling
From buds in the trees
Yellow, orange, gold and red
Colors of fall given over
Washed away by rain and snow
Shadows of tree limbs
Playing in the grass
Ever changing
Holding the future
Retracing destiny
Of life and love
The sap of trees
Rising through its veins
As birds take wing
And flowers bloom
Secrets revealed
Through knotted pines
That, ever green, remain
The forecast of spring


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Bruce Levine is a native Manhattanite who lives with his wife, actress Lydia Franklin, and their dog Daisy. He’s spent his life as a writer of fiction and poetry and a music and theatre professional. His shows have been produced in New York and around the country and his writings have been published widely including in Brimfield Publications, Heuer Publishing, Rodale Press, Visitant, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Friday Flash Fiction, Every Writer, Grey Sparrow Journal, WestWard Quarterly, Leaves of Ink, Eskimo Pie, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Bookends Review, Poetry Quarterly, 50 Haikus, Haiku Journal, Three Line Poetry, Dual Coast Magazine, Mused Literary Review and Literally Stories. Bruce's novellas, Reinvented and An Accidental Journey are available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and iBooks. www.brucelevine.com