November Wisconsin countryside
Bare trees elegant against the sky
Colors in the landscape muted now
October’s glory is gone
And love grows eternally
SMILE
Fall/Winter 2008 – 09
SMILE, a large print journal, was edited and published by Joyce M. Johnson.
older music
by many artists
listened to again
in a new way
years and growth
sometimes when I pray
before a meal, I remember
my grandmother’s prayers
in Swedish, and her voice
Poems From Psalms And Nature and Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
each flower
a star for a time
daylilies
yellow chrysanthemum
on an old green chair
in the yard and an orange
pumpkin near the door
fall stillness
POEMS FROM OOSTBURG, WISCONSIN
praying the Psalms
sun reaches the chair
where I read
Large Print Poems 