Piano Recital

By Roger Singer


diamonds 
in the lights

perfect like 
stars

as her smile 
holds my hand
as smooth notes
release a 
gentle message
breaking into
the soul
with candlelight  
whispers of sound
like a 
secret confession
of being 
in love 
only once 


Dr. Singer is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,500 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.

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