Of Spring and Cemeteries and Poetweets

I am pleased that people are tweeting me their impressions of Spring in the Heights - and of Lakeview Cemetery where the Poetweet Project got ts start.  Here's a short video of that event, filmed and edited by Stephen Bellamy - thank you, Stephen.  Warning! Former Shaker Heights folks who lived in the Onaway neighborthood may get nostalgic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZ10plTvlE

Three poems have been posted inspired by contributed tweets to date.  Here's the latest one.

Streaming Time

A field of polished stones

cushioned in spring grass;

a blanket of renewal pulled

up snug against eternity.

These people are not mine.

But I am reminded of those

now gone; their fragile bones

lying quiet under Prairie corn

or under other stones - an age,

an ocean or a continent away.

In this garden, lush with memory,

the river of the grassy blanket runs

between the stones.  These lives

have had their moment in the stream

of time —and now it’s ours.

Go to the Heights Arts Blog to read them all http://heightswritesblog.blogspot.com/

There's still time in May to tweet your impressions of spring in the Heights to  #htspoetweet.  The topic for June changes to recreation.  More on that later.