UPCOMING FALL 2020 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS: Canadian Poet, Seymour Mayne's poems for Hebrew poet, Ronny Someck

Melech Ronny
by Seymour Mayne

King Ronny was loved by all his subjects.

And why, every other monarch ran into problems?

Ronny the First didn’t issue declarations,

he published poetry.

But the Prime Minister and his cabinet members

were definitely not amused.

How can we have a king who is also a poet?

We know how the Maccabees

came to grief,

ruling while also serving as priests.

With poets it is even more extreme.

So King Ronny abdicated…for the women

he loved.  They were all his Muses

and expected him home

every night of the week,

taking care to perform his conjugal duties

even though he was tired

from working hard all day now

as a fully employed poet.

(One of the Ronny Someck Poems featured in the upcoming Issue)

Photo credit: Sharon Katz

Seymour Mayne is a distinguished Canadian author, editor, or translator of more than 70 books. As the leading international innovator of the word sonnet, he has given readings and lectured widely on this unique miniature form. His latest collections include bilingual editions of Ricochet: Word Sonnets in Spanish and French, Auspicious Calligraphy: Word Sonnets, in Romanian, and Cusp: Word Sonnets whose sequences have also been published in French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish editions. His most recent is a book-length offering of new work, Perfume: Poems and Word Sonnets.