Poet’s Corner: Love and a Goat
Lyons local Wes Parker
shares a warm, spiced drink with a local Mexican goatherder and his lady goat
Poet’s Corner: Snow Globe
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
Poet’s Corner (gratitude): 3:30 a.m. in Inverness
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…”
Celebrating 25 year anniversary, Rocky Mt High, John Denver (poet’s corner)
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
Poet’s Corner (student): Survival Guide for going back to school in America
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
Poet’s Corner: Summer of 60
“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
Poet’s Corner: Mother’s Clock
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
Poet’s Corner: Old Friend (National Poetry Month)
The final Poem for
National Poetry Month…
“Old Friend”
About our love for our companion.
Written by
Lyons poet Fawn Lewis.
Poet’s Corner: Winning at Love (National Poetry Month)
== 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.
Poet’s Corner: Streaming (National Poetry Month)
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”