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It's All Transcedental by Selma Martin

Little bell, little bell
In the middle of the day
You made me pause for a moment
Just to listen

And in the pause I found my joy
Fired me up—made me whole
Showed me the miracle
That in my day had been missing

Had you not beckoned to my senses
To take this moment from the present
This day would have passed me unawares
And not been quite so transcendental

Now there’s a skip in my step
A smile where one had been missing
And by golly—today is Monday
Will you come again, just to remind me, little bell?

© Selma Martin

Selma Martin is a retired English teacher with 20 years of experience teaching children ESL. She believes in people’s goodness and in finding balance in simple living. She lives in Japan with her husband of 35 years. In 2018, Selma participated in a networking course whose final lesson was to publish a story on Amazon. She completed the course and self-published her short story, Wanted: Husband/Handyman, in 2019, and later, collaborating with peers from that course, she published Wanted: Husband/Handyman in Once Upon A Story: A Short Fiction Anthology. Selma has published stories on Medium for many years, in MasticadoresUSA, The Poetorium At Starlight, Short Fiction Break, Lit eZine, and Spillwords. In July 2023, she published her debut poetry collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows (Experiments in Fiction). You can find Selma as selmawrites on Instagram and Twitter, and on her website, selmamartin.com.