Deep Into The Dawning Mist
written by: David Dephy
“What can be more animating than
hope of freedom?” I said to myself
walking on the street. I feel emptiness.
I see faces. The lonely faces, as if they say:
“What can be deadlier than the fragments
of your own happiness?”
I feel fulness of brilliant expectations too,
and still see faces. Those lonely faces,
as if they sing: “What can be more life-giving
than the kiss on your spirit as the smile of a baby?”
Along the tarnished glances and lights,
breath rolls over us, rushes by into the streets
where all our stories are retold, where they
carry on deep into the dawning mist.
David Dephy - The trilingual Georgian/American award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, performer, multimedia artist. The winner of the 2019 Spillwords Press Poetry Award for June’s Publication of the Month and the finalist of the Adelaide Literary Award Anthology 2019 for the category of Best Poem. The winner of the Finalist Award in the 2020 Best Book Award National Contest by American Book Fest. An active participant in the American and international poetry and artistic scenes, such as PEN World Voices, 92Y Poetry Center, Voices of Poetry, Long Island Poetry Listings, New York Public Library, Starr Bar Poetry Series, Poets in Nassau, Poets in Massachusetts, Columbia University – School of the Arts in the City of New York, Great Weather for Media in New York City, New York City Voices, Bowery Poetry Club which named him a Literature Luminary as well as the Statorec Magazine named him the Incomparable Poet. His works have been published and anthologized in USA and all over the world by the many literary magazines, journals and publishing houses. His first full-length book of poetry in English, Eastern Star, has been published by Adelaide Books New York in USA in 2020. The full-length book of poetry Lilac Shadow of a Tree and A novel A Mystiere are forthcoming in USA in Spring/Fall 2021 from Mad Hat Press. He lives and works in New York City.
Latest posts by David Dephy (see all)
- Fake - February 22, 2021
- Deep Into The Dawning Mist - December 30, 2020
- Streets - March 28, 2020
