Selected Works, Volume One On Sale
Jerry Prager, author of Legends of the Morgeti vol 1 &2 has published selections of poetry and prose from three of his previously published books, his blog The Well Versed Heart and unpublished works. On Sale at Macondo Books, the Bookshelf, in Guelph and the Eden Mills Writers Fest.
D'Etre Raisins

No sour grapes these,

rather the withered sweetness
of seasons lengthened
to aged fruition
chewed introspectively.

Friday, September 9, 2022

September 8 2020 My Majesty Died

 



Her majesty the Queen, Elizabeth the Second of my entire life

reigned over me like a bow until a quarry forklift operator 

  told Kenny Jackson and Me "they're saying the Queen die."

She was my majesty, now she is Saint Elizabeth of Balmoral,

heiress to the Anglo Saxon monarchs and Saints found

in the histories of Bede’s English Speaking people:,

kings and queens with all their miracles,

created by he or not, the pantheon of his pen,  

in whose company  Elizabeth of Balmoral has now entered.

The miracles of her rule were simple goodness, the wonders of 

her dedicated service were heroic examples of grace under pressure

duties faithfully to her own ascension promise; she was a young

mother who became grandmotherly a rock for nearly

half our nation’s existence: for one third of all international peoples

in the British Commonwealth, whatever their politics and views of

monarchy many are bowing heads to honour her passing, conscious

of her strength of character, her essential goodness in hard places;

for a woman to be, to be the woman to whom elephant matriarchs in

Africa acknowledged her just before he father’s death,

trumpeters of her ascension, the reason for her return to London,

my fair lady-o.