The Soul Has No Gender

The Soul Has No Gender

Ann Christine Tabaka

 

pronouns – do not a person make / the

soul has no gender. cells divide & cells 

combine – to form a body whole. whatever 

physicality lives within our structure is not 

the final product. we grow & evolve / we 

move & expand / we are never concrete. 

the ocean is not he nor she. we come from 

earth & so we return / we are elemental 

beings. thus, do not judge – for judgment 

owns the final hour. emotions rule, appearances 

fade / only time can claim our path. trod 

carefully my friend. life speaks to us in many 

colors. pronouns – do not a person make / in 

the end only one rule holds true –

love and be loved. 

 

 

 

Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry; nominated for the 2023 Dwarf Stars award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; winner of Spillwords Press 2020 Publication of the Year; selected as a Judge for the Soundwaves Poetry Contest of Northern Ireland 2023. Her bio is featured in the “Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020” and “2021,” published by Sweetycat Press. She is the author of 16 poetry books, and 1 short story book. She lives in Delaware, USA. She loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and four cats. Her most recent credits are: The Phoenix; Eclipse Lit, Carolina Muse, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Ephemeral Literary Review, The Elevation Review, The Closed Eye Open, North Dakota Quarterly, Tangled Locks Journal, Wild Roof Journal, The American Writers Review, Black Moon Magazine, Pacific Review, Pomona Valley Review, West Texas Literary Review.