Poems and Drawings by Marilyn Peretti

Let Wings Take You

Words in poetry
dedicated to preserving
earth's ancient winged creatures,
the cranes.


"Let Wings Take You will be cherished by nature lovers and poetry enthusiasts alike. Written by an avid observer of cranes, these poems are as much about the life and habits of cranes as about human experience and aspiration. Marilyn Peretti's wings of imagination will brush each of us in a unique way and lift us to a higher altitude of inspiration."

        Bill Marr, Autumn Window, and 13 books of poetry in Chinese
        Downers Grove, Illinois

"Marilyn Peretti expresses in poetry what I feel about cranes but am unable to adequately express in words. Her poems bring to me the spiritual essence of these remarkable birds that have inspired poets since times untold."

        George Archibald, Ph.D.
        Cofounder (1973), International Crane Foundation
        Baraboo, Wisconsin

"Born of her deep concern and admiration, Marilyn Peretti's poems are tributes to the great winged cranes and other fragile treasures of the earth. With her work, she gives the reader wings of words, and urges them to 'reclaim your own place in the sky'."

        Donna DeMeyer, Michgian poet
        Artitsts Among Us 2002, Wayne County Council of the Arts
        Moderator of the Savannah Series, Plymouth, Michigan

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Marsh Beds

Birds in branches
for the night
do not mock
long legged cranes.

Gravity pulls us all
to our own beds
for respite from
day’s winged work.

Trees of leaf
do not hug marshes
but leave them to the sky,
to wane and swell,

like black wet mirrors,
waters soaked with beds of
grasses, shallow, where
tall cranes stand, and sleep.

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Poem, Let Wings Take You, in fine art calligraphy by Timothy Botts; Giclée reproduction on fine archival paper, 12" x 15" unframed. $60, including shipping.


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Peretti awarded First Prize for poem Coming Apart,
by Current Literary Competiton, 2000, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Peretti awarded Second Prize for poem New Places,
by The Conference on Aging, 2003, Chicago, Illinois

Peretti awarded prizes for numerous poems by Poets and Patrons of Chicago, Illinois.

Seven Wonders of the Poetry World, 2006. Book, Let Wings Take You selected for this recognition by www.ChicagoPoetry.com

Awarded First Prize for poem Divestiture, by The Labyrinth Society, 2006.

Awarded Honorable Mention for Pads People, by Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, 2009.

Past poems published in: California Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, Black Bear Review, Rockford Review, Urban Spaghetti, Seeding the Snow, The Bugle (Int'l Crane Foundation), Our Developing World's Voices, Luke Lookout, Prairie Light Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, CURRENTof Ann Arbor, The Leaflet, (Nature Artists' Guild of The Morton Arboretum), www.poetrysky.com (Chinese translations), Talking River Review, Arts Beat magazine, www.seastories.org by Blue Ocean Institute, 2005 anthology Beyond Katrina, the 2006 anthology on endangered species, The Dire Elegies, program of Breast Cancer Connections (Palo Alto, CA), CRAM 2, CRAM 3, CRAM 4, CRAM 6 (Chicagopoetry.com Press), and the Kane County Chronicle's Poetry Pages, 2008; Talking River, 2009.


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