Bev Tappan – Bev Tappan https://bevtappan.net Bev writes when the muse strikes – and has been for years! Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:48:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://bevtappan.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cropped-948b254542a5f68365b8396f976102ee-32x32.jpeg Bev Tappan – Bev Tappan https://bevtappan.net 32 32 255359936 RIVERWOODS POEMS: END OF SUMMER THOUGHTS https://bevtappan.net/2024/09/01/riverwoods-poems-end-of-summer-thoughts/ https://bevtappan.net/2024/09/01/riverwoods-poems-end-of-summer-thoughts/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:33:00 +0000 https://bevpoems.wordpress.com/?p=2122 END OF SUMMER THOUGHTS

The sun was bright, the surf was high

As my daughter and her wife and I

Drove slowly along the New Hampshire shore

Among cyclers and bikers and pedestrians, more

Traffic and cars at the curb than I

Could remember seeing in days gone by

No doubt because it was Labor Day

And everyone wanted the summer to stay.

At Orient Point we took to a trail

And watched some distant yachtsmen sail.

We saw the cormorants flex their wings

While gulls pursued their wanderings.

The Isles of Shoals seemed beckoning.

I thought about that old time inn

Whose porch I once sat happily on

With a dear love who now was gone.

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Every morning when I make
My half of the connected beds
And smooth out the gigantic quilt
You made to cover them both

I recollect we played with paper
Dolls beneath the branches of
Our grandfathers’ hydrangea bush
Not knowing of the sorrows we
Would face along with many joys.

You lost a brother to pneumonia
While serving in the Vietnam War
And then were left a teenager
With a defective infant
Who after all did well enough.

And after many happy years
With a good man found yourself
Alone, confused and wandering
On a cold and snowy night
Towards a merciful pneumonia.

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Poetry Lyrics by Bev Tappan, A Poem is Meant to be Heard & October Sonnet
Music and photos by Izzy Td

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Ellen Schmidt Open Mike, August 29, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
    Mount Washington Poems
  • Repairing the Cairns
  • A Mountaintop Experience

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Ellen Schmidt Open Mike – July 18, 2022
hosted by Dan Tappan

  • On a Summer Evening
  • My Grandfather’s House
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Ellen Schmidt’s Open Mike – June 20, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
    Iceland Poems
  • Wild Harvest
  • There Be Dragons
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Ellen Schmidt Open Mike – May 16, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
  • 2 Poems – both called ‘Spring Fever’
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Are pelting the tulips while sudden gusts
Of wind beset the flowering trees.
A polar vortex surely seems
To have us in it’s icy grip.
What kind of greeting card is this
To usher in a Mother’s Day?
It mocks the merry month of May.
Blasting violets and anemones
Giving us the annual tease.
Memorial Day could bring a frost
We’ll wait ’til June to set out crops.

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Ellen Schmidt Open Mike – April 4, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
  • Timing is Everything
  • A Backward Glance
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Ellen Schmidt Open Mike – March 21, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
  • The Trail Not Taken (with Apology to Robert Frost)
  • A Reminder

Ellen Schmidt Open Mike – March 7, 2022

  • hosted by Dan Tappan
  • The Kancamagus Hike
  • The Last Day of March

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