World Poetry Featured Poet Anita Aguirre-Nieveras!

World Poetry Featured Poet

Anita Aguirre-Nieveras is a Philippine born bilingual poet.  She writes Haiku and other short poems as well as traditional and contemporary styles. and is the author of several books.  Anita is the World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Awardee 2004 and World Poetry Ambassador to the Philippines. Anita has been with World Poetry from the begining and is a World Poetry commitee member.

“Fantasy” was published in “The Best Poems and Poets of 2005 by the International Library of Poetry,  U.S.A. 

                                       FANTASY

                    In my dreams you are still there, Apollo,

                                    perfect beauty shrouded

                                  in mist of gentle raindrops,

                        dropped naked before my cold, bare feet

                      by a mischievous god from a primeval sky.

                                    Sometimes you take me

                                    n the cloak of your arms

                                   and lock me there, secure

                        or in a cozy bed, innocently entwined

                             like pythons in passionate dance.

                                           Time and again

                  you kissed me in the Sampaguita-scented room,

                 in white shores of tides and salty seaweed scents;

                                        in solitary caves where

                            illicit lovers sought sanctuary and in

                      the shadowy recesses of my secret garden.

                                      But in my winter solstice

                                           you are gone, Apollo

                        and I finally came to terms with myself

                            that you are, and always have been

                                         only an elusive creation

                       from the lonely caverns of my poetic soul.

                                   Anita Aguirre-Nieveras (C)