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"Joke's on Them" oil, by Laura Gelsomini
Editor’s Note: Area writers were invited to submit poetry and/or prose to Studio B Art Gallery’s summer project “The Three Bears.” Writers were challenged to respond to the meanings of the words “bear” and “bare,” the Bear Fever sculptures or an aspect or theme from the fairy tale “Goldilocks & the Three Bears.” Their poetry and prose responses will be published in coming weeks in The Boyertown Area Expression digital news site (boyertownareaexpression.town.news). We hope you will enjoy the wide-ranging responses to the challenging theme.
Sing - However You Will
by JD Shirk*
Let the world hear your song
Whatever you would sing
If it's from a heavy heart
That your music sings despair
Then sing the quietest whispered notes
That carry on the winds in time
To those who live close to your soul
Or if a song finds you
That seems to come from deep
Within, and rings with harmonies,
Of words unspoken, unrehearsed
A rediscovered love of life
Then let the notes rush out
Tumbling, each one over another
While your smile lights up the room
Sing like the river's rush
Along the stony points
A wordless burst of early praise
A birdsong in the dawn!
The blazing notes of sunrise
That only silence hears
I promise if we're near enough
To hear, and you are willing,
We would love to sing along!
*J D Shirk grew up close to the land in an Old Order Mennonite family, his appreciation for nature and his attunement to the spiritual began there. He experiences life in various roles, as a truck driver, father, business owner, backpacker, musician, and follows a Quaker path of understanding the world. His journey into poetry began many years ago and has become a more focused outlet for creativity over the last fifteen years. Encouraged by an elderly friend, also a poet, he has self -published two books at this time: Down Random Roads and Walk Along With Me? - both available on Amazon. A deep respect and love of nature and a desire to understand the human condition in all its successes, failures, joys, and sorrows, influences his poetry, with an occasional burst of humor about everyday events.
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