green poets

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Pastime  Writing, Exploring, Learning

Hometown  St. Petersburg, Florida

job  Professor, Writer

interests  Literature, Music, History

Poem Titles

> LITTLE GIRLS

> EVERGLADES

Little girls

Little girls,

like flowers,

bloom and dance,

Their petals shining

in the summer sun.

They lift their faces to a smiling deity,

And share their fragrance with each passerby,

give their love with endless generosity,

then bear their seeds and burdens patiently.

And when they wilt

with age, their grace remains.

Their generous loving soul retains

That Spring of blossoms,

Bowing, dancing, smiling in the autumn rains.

Then,

Like memoried flowers pressed within a book,

Their weightless fragrance asks a final look.

Now younger flowers blow their lovely blooms

and sink their roots, and weave their lives,

and rear their young

above the loving tombs.

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EVERGLADES

Rain,

A white curtain,

Shadowing brown-green grasses

And huddled humps of skeleton cypress.

And wind,

Blowing the rain across empty miles.

Throwing it hard at the desolation,

And at one man with no place else to be.

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BIO

William Robertson has been a writer and teacher of English, Composition, Literature and Poetry for the last 50 years. His career and life have taken him from New York City to Miami, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts to the greater Los Angeles area. Prior to his years as a teacher William was a columnist and a copywriter for 10 years in New York City in the late 1950s. During that time he also played folk guitar in The Village and spent time with many of that day’s writers and artists.