semantikon feature literature
Feb. 2004
Bess Rose Miller
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A poetess of some seven decades, Bess Rose Miller has worked as a teacher, edited and help produce Midfest Writing collections and has championed writing through her involvement with Middletown Poetry Circle, her essays and spekaing engagements on writing.
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bess rose miller, poet, lecturer, middletown ohio, cincinnati ohio, from kentucky roots, poetry
Orange Love

Wayside friend, I, myself, a child
heard song where love sobs
out the heart,
and the emerald butterfly soars--
reflecting wonder.
Orange, steamy, sugar afternoon
scrounges and burrows
by crazy brick lighthouse
susceptible to lonely night.

Hard knowledge
sustaining shadow
fires regret.