Michael Ceraolo

Michael Ceraolo is a 63-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length poetry books published (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press), and has two more full-length books in the publication pipeline.

"Modern Olympian Ode #42 (1980, 1984) When Two Halves Didn't Make a Whole" and "Modern Olympian Ode #41 (2021) Triple Threat"

so she was no stranger to history
Now a citizen representing her adopted country,
Sifan Hass of the the Netherlands was out
​to make a different kind of history:

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Modern Olympian Odes #27 & #28

And so
some dreams will merely be delayed a year,
some dreams will be realized ahead of schedule,
some dreams will be deferred, perhaps permanently,

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Something in the Air (1968)

she bowed her head and turned it away
from where the flag had been raised 
as the Soviet national anthem played

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