Michael Lee Johnson, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Michael Lee Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era and currently resides in the greater Chicagoland area, IL. He is an internationally published poet in 43 countries who has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize awards and five times for the Best of the Net. He is editor-in-chief of three poetry anthologies, and has several poetry books and chapbooks, with over 536 published poems to his name. Michael is the administrator of 6 Facebook Poetry groups and a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society.

I Am a Temple of Worship With Trinket Dreams — Two Poems by Michael Lee Johnson

January 28, 2022 | Poetry

Michael Lee Johnson presents two poems, one that reflects on the lives of poets and the other on the passage of time as life goes on. Such verses emerge from a poetic voice that has seen joy and grief, youth and age, vulnerability and persistence, in ways that only time can make known.