The Ebb and Flow of Earth by Joni Caggiano

The Ebb and Flow of Earth by Joni Caggiano swirling in a fluid motionshe winks sheepishly at me from cobalt skiesfloating swans like tandem ballerinasbehind a willowy cloud, she hidesshe burst forth her radiance where she resides monarch caterpillars nibbleon tall milkweed, where bite-size eggswere laid by gentle maidensorange, slight, wings fly to amaze, and...

One Petal At A Time: A Book Review by Selma Martin

One Petal At A Time by Joni Caggiano is a 136-page-long poetry collection/memoir. It will bring warm and fast tears and make you wish none of this was true. I will not lie to you, the first part of the book discomposed and enraged me. Because we’re talking about a child. My heart fractured. What a misfortune to have...

Praying Mantis – Prose by Joni Caggiano

Praying Mantis - Prose by Joni Caggiano Some days, I unfasten the red and white box beneath the ruffles of my lover's bed. Like the elusive breath of a monarch, a hit of new life. She spreads her moist and crinkly wings after hatching in her identifiable way. She must be patient and wait for...

«One Petal At A Time» Releasing Soon

https://michnavs.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/one-petal-at-a-time-on-update-india/?page_id=12553 Speaking against injustice isn’t optional. Whether you’re afraid of what other people might say or you’re afraid of losing your friends or you’re the only one against a million people or you’re being pressured on every side, I still believe that we must stand up against injustice. Neutrality is connivance with evil. There’s no...

Flaming Sunset by Joni Caggiano

Flaming Sunset by Joni Caggiano touch my skin through silk, as air-born feathersmalleable to your tender strokes, I close my eyesrelease me, take me from my bone-thin ancient tethers space disappears, my beloved refuge, pursue meassimilate my soul, as a window weeper whose painis tainted by my clarity of the indignant power of the sea...

The Inner Child Speaks -pt. 3

https://hytsdaily.com/2024/03/09/the-inner-child-speaks-pt-3/?page_id=3135 Nigel, brings the part 3 of his interview with the wonderful Joni. And this is the part where I can totally relate with Joni’s story. Joni started singing when she was 6 years old, her first performance in front of an audience and aired on a local radio. Apparently, Joni was the only one...

The Inner Child Speaks – pt 2

The impact of child traumatic stress can last well beyond childhood. Trauma is a risk factor for nearly all behavioral health and substance use disorders. A critical part of children's recovery is having a supportive caregiving system, access to effective treatments, and service systems that are trauma informed. And as we celebrate International Women's Day tomorrow,...

Joni, in the Words of Mike U

https://silentpariah.com/2024/03/05/joni-caggianos-new-book-one-petal-at-a-time-to-be-released-in-march-2024/?page_id=2293 Dear Hotel Masticadores friends and poets, I am sharing this stunning feature article of Mike U about our dear Joni Caggiano as she prepares for the release of her debut poetry book "One Petal At A Time". From your Masticadores family, we wish you all the best Joni. Thank you Mike for sharing Joni...

Song Bird by Joni Caggiano

Song Bird by Joni CaggianoWhispering, your tongue holds back crestfallen thoughts.  Nails grip my thighs with the blinding voice of anguish.  Winter squalls belt my heartache.  Dusk’s eyeless shadows linger at open windows.  I tether my sensitivities to a fishing hook that hangs by a hair plucked from my head. My wren and her heart-stopping song...

False Security by Joni Caggiano

False Security by Joni CaggianoStanding sideways, like a cool drink of water with sandy hair, freckles, and blue-green eyes, you wink.  Lissom oaks that taste one too many tempests tire and lean upon false walls of hope.  Your welcoming harbors were the key that unlatched my heart.  Like the Crepe Myrtle, I shed my bark,...

Again, Come Next Spring by Joni Caggiano

Again, Come Next Spring by Joni Caggiano cuddle me, wrap me inward, so deep our seed breathe me, as an ocean wave will yet concede touch me soft like a monarch’s florid- color wing I will savor you, inhaling love again, next spring let’s wipe our tears, on a sapling’s warm case weave imaginings of...

Emmett Till, Emmett Till, Emmett Till by Joni Caggiano

Emmett Till, Emmett Till, Emmett Till by Joni Caggiano sun shimmers in dark eyes, life stirs, myriad of dreamsa princely smile creates unstoppable joyfourteen-years happy, bout to be in city’s ugly schemes a beautiful child who could sing, dance, whistle and playhis mama’s tender nurturing handtouching suit, told him, stay close to cousins, don’t stray...

Mary by Joni Caggiano

Image property of Francisco Bravo Cabrera, All Rights Reserved, ©️2017 Mary Mary, did you sense the breath of the angel Gabriel, dutiful, sent to bestowA message from God, entrenches you, an angst-ridden sense of woeMary, do not be afraid, for I bring great news you must know Mary, God finds favor in you, your womb...

Christmas Publication

Rhymes of Woe by Joni Caggiano

words I write tiptoeacross rhymes of woeclose windows tightdays argue with nightmy words, fears in pendare I stamp and send spray perfume on topif no is answer, I will stopwithout regret my sinfor fear, I’d do it all again Joni Karen Caggiano ·Coautor, bestseller número uno de Amazon, Hidden In Childhood, una antología de poesía...