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In Search of Quiet?
We hikers who despise
dirt-bikers on their highs
step quickly off the trail,
our faces drained quite pale,
and clap both hands to ears —
muttering voiceless jeers.
As each of them roars by
I wonder with a sigh
what Inner Eye’s behind
the visored helmet lined
against a startling crash
into an oak or ash.
Leland Jamieson’s two collections of poetry, 21ST CENTURY BREAD (2007),
and IN VITRO: NEW SHORT RHYMING POEMS POST-9/11 (2009),
plus a guide for high school teachers and self-taught poets, MAKING ‘METAPHOR’ POEMS (2009)
can be found, with texts and videos, at Web Site.
IN VITRO: NEW SHORT RHYMING POEMS POST-9/11
What they're saying: "Formal Poems by a talented poet.... strangely compelling....
At his best, Jamieson resembles a modern-day G.M. Hopkins, frequently using end-rhyme
in the subtlest ways and letting the natural rhythm of language...move readers smoothly
from line to line. This is evidenced in the beautifully complex sonnet 'Calling Me Home'...."
(Kirkus Discoveries)
A book of poems makes a unique gift. Give a copy to someone special!
Find it and the poet's two prior volumes at Jamiesonspoetry.com
Email: Leland Jamieson
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