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Category: Poetry
POETRY: DECEMBER COLLAGE
-Virginia Prowell 12-16-2018 If I could paint a picture of our December celebrations It would have to be in a collage formation. In the very center I’d place the reason for this…
Befriending
–Neal Lemery (11/29/2018) Kindness Comes in so many forms, so many ways A smile, a cup of tea, Reaching out, giving a hand Listening Accepting. Together We honor ourselves and each other…
POETRY: NOVEMBER SIGHTINGS
– Virginia Prowell (11/9/2018) Though the temperature has dropped a degree or two A ride through the countryside can reveal an incredible view A changing of colors from green to gold Whether…
POEM: Halloween Fun
By Virginia Carrell Prowell (10-28-18) It’s the last week of October, what does that mean? Let’s look at the possibilities of fun and dreams. I was on my way to a meeting…
An Ode to Love
By LaNicia Williams Just as a bird knows how to fly Just as a spider knows why to spin a web Just as the elk knows how to travel in a herd…
POEM: MEMORABLE MOONLIGHTS
By Virginia Prowell (10-14-2018) The sun had just set in the Western sky On a clear day in the month of July The inside lights were all aglow The clock strikes nine,…
POET LAUREATE IN TILLAMOOK OCT. 18th
The Tillamook County Pioneer Museum is pleased to welcome Oregon’s newest Poet Laureate Kim Stafford to a special program on Thursday, October 18 at 1:00 PM in the Main Gallery. Stafford is…
POETRY: SEPTEMBER SONG
Raise your voices in beautiful harmony Let the whole world know the beauty of the season Azure skies beaming down to nourish our souls To encourage blossoms to burst into bloom To…
Bitterbrush Book Launch at Cloud & Leaf in Manzanita June 28th
“I can scarcely remember the first / time we came to this doctor, / David three, diagnosed delayed / as though he were a flight / that might land anytime.” —these lines…