The Heart Cannot Be Silent


my heart calls your name
in the gloom of endless nights
and days of longing

Dorothy Alves Holmes
A Poet Who Loves To Sing

(Senryu Poem)

The widower eats dinner alone
At the restaurant in Alves France
Pamela, a divorcee, sits at the table next to Arnim
She is unsteady as she begins to leave
So he asked her to sit with him
Thus begins their sojourn to love
Serendipity —- for they connect
The aging professor from Germany
Meets another retired professor (film studies} from Brooklyn
Now involved in human rights
They talk, connect
And so it begins
“I never thought this would happen again,” they both said
And now they are married