These posts are a bit out of order, but I'm not enough of an expert with Blogger to know how to adjust that, so just keep reading down for more of Alan's work as I'm posting several things he's sent me over the past few months, my very bad for not keeping current! Alan is a true renaissance man - trumpet player par excellence, amazing poet, husband, father, and retired university librarian...so many talents! Enjoy these poems! Thank you Alan for continuing to share your work with us - please keep it up! Keep reading below - there is more after this first one!
ON ONE DAY AT A TIME
in these troubled times
and false spring
after seventy
but also before
those older years
try and find
on one day at a time
find something in each day
you will enjoy doing
something good and interesting
you absolutely love to do
on every single day
Postscript: written on June 6, 2020 seventy third birthday,
with hope of strength and peace in these times.
Published by: JerryJazzMusician (a national online jazz journal),June 18, 2020.
Published by: Birdsong Journal (a Sandy Benitez publication), June 23, 2020.
AFTERWARDS: FOR THE SPRING OF 2020
“The World Breaks Everyone, And Afterwards,
Many Are Stronger At The Broken Places.”--- Ernest Hemingway.
many, many, years ago
I was in need
of some extra money.
I had decided
to sell my upright 1940’s
kay bass violin.
however
this april
I still have it:
and I always know …
how much
it still means to me.
it is beyond compare
with the comfort
it gives.
just feeling the design
of the birds eye
maple neck …
and then again …
just lightly touching
the string
there’s the deep strength of sound:
reassuring and resounding
from the perfectly placed bass notes.
this bass
has been
a lifelong friend:
I need this old bass
in these trying times
now more … than ever.
Published by www.JerryJazzMusician.com (a national online jazz journal):
“Afterwards: For The Spring, Of 2020.” May 23rd, 2020.
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