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Poet’s Corner

Poet’s Corner: Love and a Goat
Poet's Corner

Poet’s Corner: Love and a Goat

ByGuest Author - for the Lyons Recorder February 2, 2023February 1, 2023

Lyons local Wes Parker
shares a warm, spiced drink with a local Mexican goatherder and his lady goat

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Poet’s Corner: Snow Globe
Poet's Corner

Poet’s Corner: Snow Globe

ByMartin Soosloff December 22, 2022December 22, 2022

What do you see when you shake a snow globe and look deep into it? your memories, your experiences?
This poem will help you surrender to the moment, and the season

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Poet’s Corner (gratitude): 3:30 a.m. in Inverness
Poet's Corner

Poet’s Corner (gratitude): 3:30 a.m. in Inverness

ByBarbara Wood Gray, for Lyons Recorder November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

Poet Barbara Gray dozes in her vacation abode in Scotland and has dreams about songs, peace, birds,… but are they real? A poem about gratitude on this Thanksgiving Day.
“It was gratitude
that would not let me sleep.
The birds joined in as well…”

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Celebrating 25 year anniversary, Rocky Mt High, John Denver (poet’s corner)
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Celebrating 25 year anniversary, Rocky Mt High, John Denver (poet’s corner)

ByKathleen Spring, Lyons Recorder October 20, 2022October 18, 2022

2022 – the 50th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain High album. John Denver died in 1997, 25 years ago this month, and 25 years after the release of his most famous song.
==LYRICS
==my tale, what’s yours?
==official state song of Colorado 2007

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Poet’s Corner (student): Survival Guide for going back to school in America
Poet's Corner

Poet’s Corner (student): Survival Guide for going back to school in America

By Kristen Quinn, Lyons, for the Lyons Recorder September 8, 2022September 8, 2022

A Lyons student writes a poem about what it’s like going back to school… from the mundane shopping… to the daily routine… to the modern fears

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Poet’s Corner: Summer of 60
Poet's Corner

Poet’s Corner: Summer of 60

ByMartin Soosloff July 14, 2022July 14, 2022

“Summer of 60” poem
===pondering upon turning 60 years old ===excerpt,
History of life is an impressionist painting, interpreted as seen fit by the artist
..Chronicler of events pertinent to the teller
standing at the crossroads of memory and future as the foliage grows denser with the years

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Poet’s Corner: Mother’s Clock
Poet's Corner

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)
Poet's Corner

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)
Poet's Corner

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)
Poet's Corner

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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