Welcome! Lorelie and I know that many of you look forward to reading Cathy’s poems on the NESTER. “Town Square” will motivate you to think about your life and the people you have known along the way. If you are new to Cathy’s poems or to poetry, you will find Cathy’s poems are “. . . playful and poignant, with themes of loss and renewal . . . and reveal the unexpected layers within an ordinary life.”
For me, poetry opens windows to views I would have never seen without the poem. Getting “into” a poem is like rounding a corner on a trail and an unexpected vista opens up, or viewing a flower in bloom and watching a hummingbird land on it. My world expands to include what wasn’t there previously.
Tim
TOWN SQUARE
By Cathy Ross
My life has a center,
a town center, if you will,
where everyone I’ve ever known
has crossed its cobblestones
Some lingered on,
some left at once,
a few I could have
done without.
but each one changed me
in some way. Some
came empty handed,
others were gifts
I had to wait to open.
The crowd is thinner now,
the faces are familiar,
but the space remains
a gathering place,
where I create my own
history, and ask myself:
How do I want to remember this?
CREDITS FOR POSTS:
Writer: Cathy Ross
Photographs: House Beautiful Website
Graphic Designer: Tim Olson
Editors: Lorelie & Tim Olson
NESTER url: https://notesfromanester.com
To read Cathy’s previous poem, “Monarch” published int the NESTER – click here
