Anna Cates
Triolet on Maud Gonne
How far away the stars seem, and how far
Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. —William Butler Yeats
on the bed of longing he burned
she sighed on a silk pillow
above the Irish shoreline clouds churned
while on the bed of longing he burned
the days eclipsed and seasons turned
till hair grayed and passions mellowed
on the bed of longing he burned
she sighed on a silk pillow
Bio
Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum &
Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). Her first collection of poetry,
The Meaning of Life, was published by Cyberwit.net,
and her second, The Darkroom, by Prolific Press.
Individual poems by Anna Cates have appeared in Abyss & Apex, Codex, Blueline, Frogpond, Specs,
Yarn Review, Matter Press, and other avenues. She lives in Ohio with her two beautiful kitties
and teaches education and English online, including graduate courses in creative writing.
Visit her at her Amazon author's homepage:
https://www.amazon.com/A.-Cates/e/B006TGBCT2
Poems by Anna Cates in the "Living Haiku Anthology":
http://livinghaikuanthology.com/poet-portfolios/290-c-poets/annacates.html