Author

Helga Kidder

3 works

Helga Kidder is a native of Germany’s Black Forest and has been writing poetry in English since 1990. Her poems are inspired by the dictionary, alphabet, and her gardens.

Poetry

As Shadows Slide Away

When you look for my voice, find it
in my poem in slightly accented speech,
a Nordic inflextion, a Southern drawl.

Poetry

Elision

Being an erudite endomorph, I simulaate earth,
thus engender effulgence, a kind of ozone
I believe is not easily broken through.

Poetry

Visions

Another day of doom prophesy,
but my candle glows and warms
confidently as the flame reaches upward,