Catskills Poems - Poems about Catskills

Behind the Magnolia Curtain

...Behind the magnolia curtain, childhood ne’er knew.
Drawn to Sleepy Hollow - over the river, really
mountains; and the thruway, to Grandma’s we go.

Magnificent magnolias, bountiful with ...

Hudson River Revival

...
"Lake Tear in the Clouds" was an indescribably pretty scene
Lewis Pugh hiked in the rain; clouds lifted, he felt serene.
He dove in, swam through hemlock, maple, ash and birch
An adventure start...

Twisted Fairytales

...Rumpel Still's kin are a strange lot
With names not easily forgot
But he was kept asleep
By his cousin, the creep
Moonshine Still was the guilty sot

Rumpel had walked deep in the wood
Where M...

Autumnal New York

...Shimmering in a chilly mist,
skyscrapers overlooking NYC.
August left into September's cooler mornings,
schoolchildren dressed in plaid and Hush Puppies.

In Central Park the leaves are a green-...

Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023

...Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023

Above title attests 
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing exc...

The Legend of Big Indian, Part I

...Hear this recitation
the Lenape nation
bore a child of extreme size,
in the Onteoras,
the Catskills of yore now,
this man would live out his whole life.

Winisook was his name,
and he gained ...

I Scream At the Bear

...My family did not visit New York City
but instead played in the Catskills.


I SCREAM AT THE BEAR

I scream, at the bear
signage, for ice cream.
The tea cups...

Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022

...Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022

Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrem...

Ghosts of the Catskills

...I stand inside a ballroom that stretches long before me,
it is a sitting room right now, formal chairs and setees,
tall windows stretch ceiling to floor, twice as tall as a man,
with velvet drapes...

Still Virtual

...I’ll agree to a virtual visit
With the people I can’t see for real.
The hugs and the closeness are missing
But it does have a certain appeal.

I’ll accept taking virtual classes.
There’s a lot ...

Meditation

...Up in the mountains
Out in the woods
Things look better
Air feels good

Meet in the kitchen,
Whenever we can
Eggs in a cast-iron frying pan

Yes, and sometimes life goes faster 
than we’d l...

Letter To a Soldier - a Trilogy

...LETTER TO A SOLDIER
A Trilogy


I.  SONGS OF LOVE

Love walked with me
In the crisp fall air
In a shower of gold and red.
Love showed me the print
Of a doe’s foot
And where she made her be...

Strolling Through the Past

...It’s now a bird sanctuary,
and has been for some decades now,
the trail wanders through the forest,
past the rock walls of an old house.

The trail itself was once a road,
I can tell by the two...

Look Out Below

...The sign he reads out loud, “There’s holes ahead.”
The Rip Van Winkle Bridge quite disturbs me.
A story book that’s come to life — with head
To lose. My dad inches along bravely.

The c...

Pioneers Without Frontiers

...When I was a kid on the bus,
I looked at all that surrounded us,
out the window I always gazed
seeing old fields, half-trees, half-hay,
beyond them rose a forest wall,
maples and pines, stately ...

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