Helping To Chart A Lost Continent: Category Archive for Poetry

LINDA ALBERT ~ Poetry & Other Writings

Author Biography

Linda Albert is a corporate trainer and personal communication and life coach with a Master Certification in Neuro-Linguistics. An author and poet, Linda’s work has appeared in many publications, including McCalls Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Among her awards are the Olivet and Dyer-Ives Foundation Poetry Prizes. She is a recipient of the International Merit Award in Atlanta Review's 2007 International Poetry Competition. Linda resides in Longboat Key, Florida with her husband.
Helping to Chart a Lost Continent
(First published in Other Voices International Project, Vol. 41, April 2009.)

Every woman
is part of
a lost continent
that flourished once
like Mur, Lemuria,
Atlantis,
until some ancient
cataclysm
swallowed it whole,
submerged
each woman's story
under the sea.
Fathoms deep,
we slept away
our pain for eons,
hinted at, but
best forgotten.
Now, despite that,
everywhere you look
another speck
of land appears,
thrusting itself upward
after a long and arduous
labor.
It is a delicate business,
helping to birth
a continent,
requiring every
woman-voice
to make the new/
old landmass whole
and seamless,
a foolish, fearless
heart
to chart it.

Linda Albert
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- Essays (1)
- Poetry (3)
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  - April 2007 (1)
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