Beneath the Leaves
I
The ice is cold and deep
but we grow warm
before we sleep.
One last chance
to picture in our mind
our loves so dear, so kind.
I don’t fit the schedule
any more, so pick me up
off the floor, and carry
me around the house
again. Let me visit
all the rooms where
I have been, let me
smell the fumes. The carpet
will never be the same,
just replace the carpet
in my name. The ice is cold
and the snow is deep
but we grow warm
before we sleep.
II
It might have been
two days later,
a week, a month or two,
who know how long
before nature would
make its call.
He had no voice, no say
at all, in what was going
on, he wasn’t ready,
nature never is on time,
but I think he knew,
Page 2
They put the tourniquet
around his leg, slipped
the needle in, released
the rubber tube to let
the syringe begin. “No
turning back,” I said.
I think his heart
was broken then.
He didn’t struggle,
eyes half closed,
he let us do the best
for him. I felt his heart
in my hand, it was strong
and full of life until
it missed a beat,
and stopped so fast
it surprised us all,
when his head went limp
and it was over, then
the world crashed in.
Black, so black, he
loved us, we loved him
III
Beneath the leaves
my dog sleeps,
beneath the rocks, geodes,
the best that I could find,
beneath the rose, in the soil
this dog of mine.
The beloved Hanna dog: Johann
Friday, November 6, 2009
Adell's Poetry
Ancient Tree
Wonderful piece of architecture,so strong and straight, reaching upto touch the hand of it’s creator. There it stands bare and naked, as a new born. Waiting there for the season to end,to grow anew with the warming sun. It’s now fully clothed in leaves of green. For many months giving shelter and shade. To birds, the squirrels and people too,who stop and share it’s leafy boughs. The tree now tells us it’s time to rest Leaves of reds, yellows and green radiate warmth and yet. It knows the leaves that will wither and fall. Leaving it bare,naked,Now it’s fall. No - it’s not the end , just the beginning, back alive it’s SPRING again.
Adell E. Kearney,age 82, my first poem written on the way home from a poetry reading at C.L.C. 11 / 01/ 09.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Charlie Zahm Christmas Concert
Mark your calendar for December 6th at 4:00 p.m. for the annual Christmas Concert with Charlie Zahm. The Arts Committee will be planning a festive evening for you. Invite the children in your family for a fun time with Charlie.
Click on the Charlie Zahm YouTube videos below on the blog page if you want to enjoy his singing.
Click on the Charlie Zahm YouTube videos below on the blog page if you want to enjoy his singing.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Choral Society Concerts
Southern Delaware
Choral Society
P. O. Box 444Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971ph: 302-226-5231
gr8fulgail@comcast.net
"My Soul Now Magnifies the Lord"
The December concerts are as follows:
December 12 7:00 p.m. at Eagles Nest Fellowship Church, Milton, DE
December 13 3:00 p.m. at the Woodbridge High School, Bridgeville, DE
Tickets are $20 Contact Paul Hanke for tickets 302-644-0256
The Southern Delaware Choral Society was created to bring quality choral music to southern Delaware and to provide singers with the opportunity to enhance their musical knowledge and skills. Two concerts are presented annually with two performances of each concert performed in a variety of Sussex County venues. John Ranney is our conductor with Rebecca McDaniel serving as rehearsal accompanist and Gail Launay as Executive Director.
The Spring concerts (April 17 and 18) will be a Broadway Review at Epworth UMC in Rehoboth and Mariner's Bethel UMC in Ocean View
Choral Society
P. O. Box 444Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971ph: 302-226-5231
gr8fulgail@comcast.net
"My Soul Now Magnifies the Lord"
The December concerts are as follows:
December 12 7:00 p.m. at Eagles Nest Fellowship Church, Milton, DE
December 13 3:00 p.m. at the Woodbridge High School, Bridgeville, DE
Tickets are $20 Contact Paul Hanke for tickets 302-644-0256
The Southern Delaware Choral Society was created to bring quality choral music to southern Delaware and to provide singers with the opportunity to enhance their musical knowledge and skills. Two concerts are presented annually with two performances of each concert performed in a variety of Sussex County venues. John Ranney is our conductor with Rebecca McDaniel serving as rehearsal accompanist and Gail Launay as Executive Director.
The Spring concerts (April 17 and 18) will be a Broadway Review at Epworth UMC in Rehoboth and Mariner's Bethel UMC in Ocean View
Poetry Readers
What a wonderful evening we had with our local poets. Gary Hanna, Anne's Husband and two of his friends shared their most intimate thoughts with us. There were about 25 of us excluding the three poets. We each have memorable poems from the evening. Bob Druckenmiller said he'll never forget Gary's remembrance on the death of his loving dog. Others remembered Denise's loving cat and how she'll never forget the purring and the weight on her chest. I remember Gary's poem of how his boat dock heaves up and down with the seasons and that his chair keeps sliding down the dock, so that he may slide off the side of the World someday. Another poem of half baked barbecued chicken being the only meal she experienced, over and over, at a relative's home brought back similar experiences with some of us. There was something for everyone.
I'll try to get a few of these poems to share with you.
Alice
I'll try to get a few of these poems to share with you.
Alice
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Poets on Sunday, Nov 1st at 4 p.m.
The poets reading on Sun. Nov. 1st at 4:00 PM at the church:
Sherry Chappelle (Rehoboth Beach) is a former teacher of reading and writing who is amember of the Rehoboth Art League Writers Group. Chosen to attend two workshops with former Poet Laureat Fleda Brown, she has read her work as part of the Poetry At The Beach, John Milton Poetry Festival, and Biggs Museum of America Art programs. She was a 2007 recipient of an Opportunity Grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts to work withnationally known poets Maria de los Santos and Gerry La Femina. Her poems have won prizes form the Delaware Literary Connection and have been published in The Broadkill Review and Beach Life Magazine.
Denise Clemmons (Lewes) spent the first 20 years of her career as an executive in the technology industry. She escaped the corporate world to devote her energies to the non-profit arena, including running a welfare-to-work program in D.C. and serving as an Assistant Curator of the Tudor Place Historic House and Gardens in Georgetown, DC. She is a certified Delaware Master Gardener, writes a weekly food column for the Cape Gazette, conducts poetry workshops for the Wellness Community and is a member of the Rehoboth Art League Writers group. Denise has published fiction, non fiction and poetry and has been writing since she learned how to read. She holds a BA in Biopsychology from Vassar College and an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.
Gary Hanna (Dagsboro) is a former senior officer with the U.S. Department of Education and since retirement, has been able to turn his attention to his hirst love, poetry. He has won three small national poetry contests in 2002, 2005, and 2009, an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2003 and a Residency Fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2007. He also is a member of the Rehoboth Art League Writers Group, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Broadkill Review, and Director of the Poetry At The Beach reading series, here in southern Delaware. He holds an MA in English Literature from Indiana University.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
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