Bev Tappan

Month: July 2017

  • RIVERWOODS POEMS: REFLECTIONS

    REFLECTIONS

    The lambent sun burnishes Cannon’s cliffs

    As we draw near Franconia Notch and then

    The rock slide screes are sparkling as if

    A Titan’s eyes are focusing on them.

    Past the verdant vacant ski slopes, Echo

    Lake, the “Old Man-Reimagined” park,

    Over the top of the notch we gladly go

    To reach our destination before dark.

    Would that all our trails might emerge into light

    And not be dangerous or fraught with gloom.

    Let all our journeys be to mountain heights

    Ever toward the heavens, not the tombs.

    Then might our little lives be richly blessed

    Unfettered by fear and warmed with happiness.

     

  • BARTLETT POEMS: WEATHER REPORT

    WEATHER REPORT

    The storm descended from the north

    Across the Presidential peaks,

    A dense envelopment of fog.

    Who knew what havoc it might wreck?

    Small leaves at first began to shake.

    Then tall trees bent and slowly swayed.

    A thick mist swallowed every shape.

    The rain came down in a raging cascade.

    This storm by Zeus’s fist was hurled

    But its tumult soon did pass us by.

    A rainbow over the glen unfurled

    And blue bits did return to the sky.

    Some miles to the south another town

    Was caught in the fury our vale was spared.

    Trees were uprooted and power was lost.

    For their well-being no deity cared.

    But we for whom the rainbow shone

    Know that their fate could have been our own.

     

  • RIVERWOODS POEMS: ONE FOR THE AUDIENCE

    ONE FOR THE AUDIENCE

    More credit should be given

    To brooders, to mother hens.

    Surely the gates of heaven

    Must be open to them

    Whose warm breasts shepherd the young.

    And those should be commended

    To whom the song is sung,

    Who put their hands together

    And give their welcome tongue.

    Appreciation is due

    To all receptive ears,

    The openhearted who

    Say yes to balladeers

    And sponsor new careers.