Guest Author

Ana Yin - Author and Poet

Present Is Beyond

 

At funeral after funeral,

Africa’s hottest sun

fails to warm them.

 

Piercing through their hollow eyes,

wistful winds shake their thin limbs.

 

Life, a striving skill

with nothing to grasp, so

”PRAY!”

 

 

 

 

 

Note: When asked to write down what bothers them the most,

these kids hand in their papers with one word on them: DEATH!

 

 

From Inhaling the Silence (Mosaic Press 2013)

Anna Yin is the author of the recently published poetry collection “Wings Toward Sunlight” (Mosaic press 2011). 

Anna Yin, IT Geek and poet, was born in China, and immigrated to Canada in 1999. Her passion for poetry bloomed after coming to North America. She won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award and 2010 MARTY Award for her poetry.  In 2011 her book “Wings Toward Sunlight” was published by Mosaic Press.  She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Her Poetry Alive events have been a new approach to help people explore and appreciate poetry. 

Visit Anna at  http://www.annapoetry.com/