Marilyn Peretti's poems have appeared in journals including Kyoto Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Talking River, Journal of Modern Poetry, California Quarterly, Snowy Egret and online New Verse News. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she has self published two books on cranes: Let Wings Take You, and Cranes to Come, once featured at Int’l Crane Foundation; also Lichen-Poems of Nature, Angel's Wings, and To Remember-To Hope, thoughts on tragedies of the Japanese Tsunami. See other poems at http://www.perettipoems.wordpress.com
White Poinsettia
Aztecs surely knew
what glory they might
bring to hopeful eyes,
cultivating the brilliant
flor de Nochebuena,
delicate broad plant
mostly seen in season
of Christ's Celebration,
wide green leaves with
snowy bracts fluttering,
gracefully curving to points,
so like wings of angels.