By Flapper Press Poetry Café:
The Flapper Press Poetry Café continues a series of articles about favorite lines of poetry and the poets who wrote them. We’re reaching out to poets, writers, and lovers of poetry to submit their favorite lines of poetry and tell us why you love them.
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This week, our submission comes from Lou Ann Harmless Preston.
Lou Ann Harmless Preston:
As a first grade teacher for 35 years, I taught Native American legends and simple poetry to my students. The colorful imagery in this poem is an example of how “words paint a picture” for early writers. My students loved the descriptive nature of the legends and the poetry shared.
I currently serve as Chapter Regent for the Mission Hills Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, in Overland Park, KS. As such, I have the pleasure of encouraging the work of our American Indians Committee, which is entrusted to the continuing education of the history and culture of this community, as well as the support of the educational and cultural pursuits of its citizens.
Why these lines matter to me:
I have always loved the way that words can visually transport me to special times and places.
Autumn
Alexander Posey, 1873–1908
In the dreamy silence
Of the afternoon, a
Cloth of gold is woven
Over wood and prairie;
And the jaybird, newly
Fallen from the heaven,
Scatters cordial greetings,
And the air is filled with
Scarlet leaves, that, dropping,
Rise again, as ever,
With a useless sigh for
Rest—and it is Autumn.
Alexander Posey, born August 3, 1873, was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known for his poems and Fus Fixico letters, a series of satirical letters written from his fictional persona, Fus Fixico, that commented on local and national politics of the time. Posey was born into a bicultural and bilingual family. His mother was a Creek Indian, and his father had Scottish ancestry but had grown up in the Creek community.
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