Emergency Meeting Monday

When we return from vacation, we will meet on Monday INSTEAD of Friday, to offer help to any of our eight finalists, as the Poetry Out Loud finals are on Tuesday.

By the way, check out BHS's new POL webpage:

www.burlington.mec.edu/~poetryoutloud

Also, it appears that our plan to record POL poems for BHS students to download may be much easier than I'd feared. Lazarus! We'll have an update on this soon.

Finally, I fear I have dropped the ball horribly on our Flatbread fundraiser. We may not have a meeting until late June. I hope this isn't too late for our seniors, but it might serve as a nice farewell to the 2009 members. Also, our banner was sent back to the drawing board. Needs more info, apparently. But the application was dropped off, and we'll have a date soon.

See you Monday!

Collaborative poem - final edition

No Golden Rules
by Poetic Ramblings

We walked the shore of San Francisco
searching for something intangible under the bridge.
The retreating tide left shadowy pools,
sad footprints of a fleeting past
sliding grains out into the froth
that had left our cups in the years
filling our lungs with what once was
regretting wishing the moments away

You stopped, seeing something in the surf,
while I looked out to the Pacific.
You told me you belonged away from here,
and already, I felt the distance pressing.
Our future crumbled beneath the weight of your words
as the sand that hugged my ankles began to harden.
If only I had the same adhesive effect
On the bones that take you away from me.