[stylist] Member gets poem published!

[Barbara Hammel]

Congratulations, Ken.  It makes a heart feel light as air to know others 
appreciate our work.
Barbara




Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:23 AM
To: writers nfb
Subject: [stylist] Member gets poem published!

I received the following message and we need to celebrate with this guy!



Hi Robert.  My poem, To Know a Rose is being published in the Lodi Ca. Rose
Society's news letter.  It was written as a tribute to one of my college
professors whose passion was growing roses. I don't know when it will appear
in print, but to be published is exciting.  Ken Volonte



To Know a Rose



To know a rose you could use science,

Or on a shiny morning you could pass,

By where the old Professor propagated his varieties, Noting the gradations
from red to pink to white, To know Danny Boy and Mimiet and Imperial, Or you
could do what I do and just smell.



But we'll do science- I believe in science.

They say it's self correcting and so on.



To know a rose you'd have to break it down, Beyond petal and stem and thorn,
And know it at a cellular level.



But then you see you wouldn't have the rose.

In time you wouldn't have the memory;

And so as well for art or symphony.

It's the same for all things I suppose;

And so today I'll pass the house,

Where Louis Lighter bread his fine perfume, And recall the man he was in a
lecture room.









Robert Leslie Newman

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

<http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

<http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info



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