Hear Ye

Happy Christmas!! Do we, as we holiday, remember the reason for the season? Certainly, the solstice has just passed and we celebrate the changing light, the movement towards spring. It’s the season of birth, renewal, and of joy …

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HEAR YE                                              

prophets shout
to skiers
and snowboarders

they call
along country lanes
beside frozen lakes

seers cry                                              
to shoppers
and salespeople

they tell
of one who is
Joy to the world

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A Summer Father … Here is poetry … interweaving images culled from a wartime childhood with bittersweet memories of a “summer father”. Lynda Monahan