Michael Belongie advocates attentiveness to the Silent Teacher. Our Creator speaks volumes every moment in our own journey and inexplicably guides those who are open to illumination. Michael who has six published poetry chapbooks, national textbook editing advisory experience, and thirty years of drama reviewing encourages his readers to share with him such poems created with that perspective. Michael offers "Embracing the Moment," new poems that open opportunities to embrace present gifts. The photo of his granddaughter as a toddler is immediate with family golden retriever, Keats, as each fondly at-tends to each in their loving responses to the moment.A span of forty years of poetry,… published locally and within the reach of the internet, offers testament to his active career as a teacher and advocate of poetry. As a past president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, founded in 1950, he continues to participate with advocacy for the arts and need of poetry in our lives.