Poems – 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 Poems – Bev Tappan https://bevtappan.net 32 32 255359936 Bev Tappan has written over 300 poems https://bevtappan.net/2026/06/15/bev-tappan-has-written-over-300-poems/ https://bevtappan.net/2026/06/15/bev-tappan-has-written-over-300-poems/#respond Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:46:10 +0000 https://bevtappan.net/?p=2880 Here is a link to her Poem Title Index

Most of Bev’s poems were originally grouped by the time period/place that they were written. Visit the Archives section to see the poems also grouped by Theme.

Bev has also shared many poetry readings on her Youtube Channel. Her spoken words really brings the poetry to life!

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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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