Diane Dehler is an American poet known for her postmodern lyricism who has been nominated for a Pushcart Award 2014. She received a degree from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, receiving the Outstanding Student of the Year Award. She is an English Language poet in the international literary scene. Most recently she has published in From the Four Chambered Heart: In tribute to Anais Nin, Rose Red Review, poeticdiversity, Skylark: an English-Language Tanka Journal, Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, Contemporary Literary Horizon, Pirene’s Fountain, The Criterion: an international Journal in English and The Taj Mahal Review. She is also known for her flower photography, especially her studies of the lotus, orchid and chrysanthemum. Her blog Princess Haiku has received 200,000 + views and she can be found on Facebook.
In a sea of white anemones
I was swimming in a sea
of white anemones,
Whose ivory foam surrounded
me with the tenderness-
gentle hours of a lover.
The frothing ivory interior
of the flower was a white eye.
A perception from which
arose Aphrodite awakening
from the perfume of Alegria.
