I started writing poetry when I was nine years old. My mother had friends who were poets, my aunts wrote poetry, and I had wonderful teachers in school who not only wrote poetry but promoted poetry. Also, I had friends who enjoyed “playing with words.” Writing poetry seemed natural.
Many of my themes deal with nature; however, I also have written about issues concerning the range of human experience, including joy, love, and desperation.
SYMPHONY OF WIND
Symphony of Wind art Thou
Oh, Great Nature. Hence
I come and humbly bow
To azure skies and swaying trees
Who offer up sweet melodies.
As daylight fades and night draws nigh,
It is the best of rhapsodies.
Patricia Hammill
To read Patricia’s previously published poems EARLY SNOW AND LATE SNOW – click here
