The Writer's E-Zine Home

Writers' Village University - F2K: Free Fiction Writing Course - ePress-online
Writers' Village University Membership Information

Poetics Presents

Teresa L. Trotter

Teresa L. Trotter has written poetry, short stories, screenplays, and psychothriller novels for twenty-three years. She has written a spy novella, a Christian horror novel, and a nonfiction book about fostering special needs children. Teresa lives with her adopted children, a three-year old boy and a four-year old girl, as a single, stay-at-home mom. They are the inspiration for most of her current poetry. Her poem "My Choice" was written for her children's baptism.
 

My Choice

(for my adopted children, Francesanne and James)

Tea parties, baptisms, "Beauty and the Beast"
Make up for money, fortune and fame.
This is the comfort zone I've made for myself.
I chose children.

You could borrow a cup of innocence,
But I have only a half cup to spare.
What's lost in me is found in them.
I chose children.

The power of television news is electric.
The information highway's a traffic jam.
I do not live in the despair of the rest of the world.
I chose children.

Worries in a night full of thunder.
I find no easy answers.
Sounds of peace in a night full of stars.
Pisces meets the Aquariuses
In the silence they are safely asleep
On the midnight sky ocean.
One daughter, one son.
I chose children.

Copyright © 2003 by Teresa L. Trotter


T-Zero: The Writer's Ezine
http://TheWritersEzine.com
Copyright 1998 - 2007, Writopia Inc. All Rights Reserved