Month: June 2016

  • RIVERWOODS POEMS: THOUGHTS IN THE NEWFIELDS WORD BARN

    THOUGHTS IN THE NEWFIELDS WORD BARN

    At Open Mikes

    The spoken word

    Is often heard, but

    What of the unspoken word

    The forgotten word

    The belated word

    The word of advice

    The word of wisdom

    The word of caution

    In the Beginning

    Was the Word.

    Who will have

    The last word?

    Who will hear

    Our last word?

     

  • RIVERWOODS POEMS: A PASSING THOUGHT

    A PASSING THOUGHT

    Flesh of my flesh

    (As well as their father’s)

    Bone of my bone

    (Their father’s too)

    How proud they make us

    These five fine siblings,

    Spouses and offspring.

    We are transmuted

    Translated to new

    And complex persons.

    What more do we ask

    Than to have a share

    In this chain of lifetimes

    On our planet Earth.

  • RIVERWOODS POEMS: AT THE ACADEMY CONCERT

    AT THE ACADEMY CONCERT

    Last night we heard Beethoven’s

    “War and Peace” sonata

    (Or so I choose to call it):

    Brief interludes of harmony

    Give way to the clash of arms.

    And then the “Blitzkrieg Waltz”

    (Though he himself denies it):

    The dimly heard Valse by Ravel

    Drowned out by war’s alarums.

    It seems this new generation

    Of promising high school students

    Does not expect peace in their time.

    And those of us in our nineties

    Suspect that they are right.