Look To the Sky

By Helen Losse

As you long for love
and pray to the Heavens,
as you sing, look to the sky.

Look to the sky
where clouds gather,
clouds darken,
as you live, as you worship,
forget not to remove shoes
on the holy mountain.

Look to the sky:
Sky over ocean,
sky over hills,
sky over mountains,
sky yellow with jealousy,
red with Heaven’s passion:
sky bringing tongues of fire
like a mighty wind:
a sky filled with a rainbow,
a sky that consumes.



Helen Losse is a poet from Winston-Salem, NC. She is the author of two full length books, Seriously Dangerous (Main Street Rag, 2011) and Better With Friends (Rank Stranger Press, 2009) and two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes. She attended Missouri Southern State and Wake Forest. Her recent poetry publications include Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Review, Blue Fifth Review, The Pedestal Magazine, ken*again, Referential, and Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont. Helen’s poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice for a Best of the Net award, one of which was a finalist. She is the Poetry Editor for online literary magazine The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.