Poet’s Corner – The Lyons Recorder

Poet’s Corner: Mother’s Clock

ByBarbara Wood Gray, poet, Louisville, CO, for the Lyons Recorder May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

Honoring our Mother’s on MOTHER’S DAY 2022
Poem about Barbara’s Mother’s Clock that is now in her home,
and how it reminds her of her mother’s presence and heartbeat

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Poet’s Corner: Old Friend (National Poetry Month)

ByFawn D Lewis, for the Lyons Recorder April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The final Poem for
National Poetry Month…
“Old Friend”
About our love for our companion.
Written by
Lyons poet Fawn Lewis.

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Poet’s Corner: Winning at Love (National Poetry Month)

ByBarbara Wood Gray, poet, Louisville, CO April 21, 2022April 21, 2022

== excerpt == The pandemic gods… thought they had won… by thinking they could say… that touching and hugging were all bad…. so they took them all away.
——— The littlest acts of kindness… can take the sad away.

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Poet’s Corner: Streaming (National Poetry Month)

ByMartin Soosloff, Lyons poet April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Sitting at the happy place, bubbling St Vrain backyard confluence….great word, confluence – a coming together…. Stream of consciousness at the confluence…. Flow…. Unedited burbling words coming at me, conjures the saying ….“One cannot walk in the same river twice”

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Poets Corner: Ukrainian Tears (National Poetry Month)

ByGuest Author - for the Lyons Recorder April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

APRIL – NATIONAL POETRY MONTH // EXCERPT: We support with prayers and tears….A shared sorrow over loss of lives, livelihoods and childhoods cut short…..Shelling, bombs, attacks on neighborhoods, communities, freedom……..Ukrainian tears shed for family members, left behind to keep watch over the home.

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Poet’s Corner: Find Your Zen

ByMartin Soosloff March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

poetic interpretation of a 2nd year with COVID by Martin Soosloff
==quote==Find your ZEN
Find your center, find your ZEN
One step forward, mask again
Remembering the feeling of interaction
Hard stop, variant variation mutation…

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Do You like solitude? read about its pleasures

ByKathleen Spring, Lyons Recorder February 3, 2022February 3, 2022

Solitude is not the same as loneliness.
These four brief quotes (by famous people) reflect on the pleasures of solitude.
(Many of our readers
live in mountain homes, away from cities, and may relate to these photos and short precise quotes)