Poetry by Sharmagne
            Leland-St.John


            
 

            
 

            
Ticonderoga Wind

            
 

            
Quietly she listened 

            With a subtle Mona Lisa smile

            As he ever so softly whispered

            "I finally figured out your style."

            "Oh what is it?" she ventured 

            Her voice now growing thin

            The lacy curtains barely stirred

            And the smile became a Cheshire grin

            In the passive Ticonderoga wind

            Then with the lightest of eagle feathers

            You could have knocked her dead

            "You use a lot of adjectives,"

            He matter-of-factly said

            As he lay there Pasha-like

            Upon her pillowed bed

            Is that good or bad she wondered?

            Her soul and body bared

            As she anxiously and deeply pondered

            The information that he shared

            And as she leaned back to listen to the raucous blue-jays sing

            She was eminently aware of one very important thing 

            Without a myriad of adjectives and verbs

            She'd never reach the required one hundred and fifty words

            Then she provocatively turned towards him with gentle nips 

            And licked the words right off his tender, smiling lips

            
 

            


            Sharmagne Leland-St. John,
            a 2007 Pushcart Prize nominee, is a Native American poet, concert
            performer, lyricist, artist, and film maker. Sharmagne spends
            time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in Southern California
            and her fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific
            Northwest. She tours the United States, Canada, and England,
            as a performance poet, either solo or with her band of poets
            "Poetry in Motion." She has published 2 books of poetry
            Unsung Songs (2003), Silver Tears and Time (2005),
            and co-authored a book on film production design. Designing
            Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist (Greenwood/Praeger,
            2006) her third collection of poetry Contingencies is
            scheduled for publishing February 2008.