Literary Las Vegas: Tami Belt

Friendship, affection, rejection, beauty, music, fear, longing and loneliness are among the topics Las Vegas native Tami Belt explores in her poetry. Belt, founder of the public relations company Blue Cube Marketing Solutions, recently released "Poetic Justice: Lessons of Love, Life & Relationships." The collection features a cover by Las Vegas-raised artist Jennifer Main and is peppered with illustrations and photographs and the sentiment that "Even if we find ourselves in a story we didn't start we have the power to write the ending." Visit 1writesofpassage.wordpress.com.

Excerpt:

I want starry nights

and moonlight dances

holding hands

and romantic glances

I want caring arms

waiting to unfold

and special feelings

wanting to be told

I want picnic baskets

filled with cheese and wine

shared in a world

where there exists no time

I want parks at night

to swing on swings

and all the romance

that a moonlight walk brings

I want endless nights

dawned with laughter

two bodies entangled

in the morning after

I want weekends spent

in hide-a-way places

where dreams come true

to two smiling faces

I want all my dreams

to finally come true

I want them to be

set free by you