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My heritage
Lisa Albright Ratnavira's work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Poet, Bereavement, Lucidity and Limestone Circle. Her chapbooks are "Passion Takes Three," "Embracing Artemis" and "Traveling with Pen and Brush." She directs the Hidden Forest Art Gallery and Nature Center in Fallbrook with her husband, Gamini, a renowned wildlife artist, and their four children. Her work appears on www.gaminiratnavira.com. Email her at Lisa@tfb.com.
By Lisa Albright Ratnavira
is linked to Celtic Boii
leaves me free to dance
to inhabit
creativity
to defy
social
conventions
Invites me to
pursue
music, color, love
a vagabond's passion
for people
for places, varied
in lieu
of money
Allows others
to disdain me
for my sense
of thievery
promiscuity
my inability
for permanence
a merry poverty
rooted in
letters of travel
granted by
royalty
perhaps I
inspire envy
in my
Bohemian
Gypsy
revelry?
3-06
Published June 2006
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