Michael Lee Johnson's brand new poetry chapbook, From Which Place the Morning Rises and his new version of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom (both with many picture illustrations) is now available at: http://stores.lulu.com/promomanusa. He has 2 previous chapbooks available at: http://stores.lulu.com/poetryboy. He is also the author of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7, the original version.
He is publisher and editor of four poetry flash fiction sites--all presently open for submission:
http://birdsbywindow.blogspot.com/
http://www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com/
http://atendertouch.blogspot.com/
http://wizardsofthewind.blogspot.com/
Author website: http://poetryman.mysite.com/
CONTACT AUTHOR DIRECTLY: promomanusa@gmail.com
P.O. Box 486, Itasca, IL. 60143
Selected Poems Published By: Michael Lee Johnson
Please read "About The Author" for a complete list of credentials published or pending publication. This includes
several on these pages, and proper credit is attributed to the publications accordingly. Note they are copyrighted.
This site is dedicated to my mother Edith Freet (see poem "Speaking of Death"), Doris & Robert Light. Also to my, friends: Carol, John, Carie, & all the members of Living Hope support group-and anyone that appreciates life's joys.
Death hides, but doesn't divide.
I hope these pages make you smile,
reminisce, and perhaps shed a tear.
Feel free to send comments about my poetry, good or bad, to: poetryman@walla.com
All material contained on this website is © by the author and may not be reproduced at all in any form without the express permission of the author. Internet publishing in no way indicates material to be "public domain" and all copyright laws are applicable.
Flight Of The Eagle ©
From the dusty eyes
comes the time when
the eagle flies-
without thought,
without aid of wind,
like a kite detached without string,
the eagle in flight leaves no traces,
no trails, no maps-
never a feather drops
out of the sky.
Michael Lee Johnson
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