"When you leave this earth, you will not
be able to take with you
anything that you have received...
Only what you have given."
-- St. Francis of Assisi
S C A T T E R
... Far-flung-- as if, at first strung
from the wind's nail, impaled
on its tempest of time
then freed-- unfurled-- to go
where the Profane
courts-or-collides
with the ethereal Sublime--
either to descend or climb
such stairways, rung by rung.
Above, or Below-- so as to know
those regions where fate
might lure or lead, to then go on
in choice, as both Heart & Voice,
to become, Oneself, the breadth
& scope of an entire driven World.
Marlene M. Tartaglione is an artist whose creativity manifests poetry, children’s literature, visual arts. Her work has appeared in presses nationally & abroad. Ms. Tartaglione has won 4 poetry prizes, her work presented at venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, M.O.M.A, New York Book Fair. Her poem, S C A R E B, has recently been nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize. Ms. Tartaglione’s M.B.A. studies were conducted at NYU; Ms. Tartaglione also holds a B.F. A. from the Cooper Union, where she studied with poet/ educator/ scholar, Dr. Brian Swann.
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