{"id":1092,"date":"2014-11-10T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2015-05-23T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T11:37:46","slug":"the-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"the why: on summer vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This poem is dedicated to my muse, dearest friend and fellow artist Pd Lietz<\/a>. Pd was the first artist to take a chance, have the faith and confidence to do a Image with Words collaboration with me. Not a shabby start for this small town artist from Freeland, Michigan. ‘Cause Pd Lietz is one of the greatest, highly recognized and published artists in the present day world. <\/p>\n

on summer vacation
\nfirst week of September
\nthe highlands
\nof Cape Breton
\nsung sweetly
\nto me
\nas if
\ngiven an angelic air
\naccording to the wind
\ndriven on its course
\nover hill and dale
\n~ \u00a0 accompanied
\n~ \u00a0 harmoniously
\nfrom the rush of sea
\nbeating
\never so steadily
\nupon the ragged shore
\nsculptured in rocks
\nstenciled
\nwith weathered
\nlines of character
\nwhere water and land
\nare roofed with
\nthe veil of sky
\nnot only home to
\n~ \u00a0 the cloud
\n~ \u00a0 the sun
\n~ \u00a0 the moon
\nbut \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u00a0the bald eagle
\nneither one nor two
\nthe many
\nswooping
\nmajestically about
\nall the while below
\nthe moose walks
\nand runs
\nwith beige or gray
\ncovered legs
\nalong the zigzag path
\nof rugged terrain
\nand too
\nunder
\nthe same shadow
\nof the eagle\u2019s wing
\nright off
\nthe best kept secret
\non the Cabot Trail
\nMeat Cove
\n~ \u00a0 the whale
\nbreaching together \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 freely
\nin synchronized swimming
\npurely \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 unequivocally
\nbreathtaking …..<\/p>\n

~ \u00a0 for if I knew
\nthe day and time
\nmy end would come
\nthis is where
\nthis place
\nI would sit
\nupon the ground
\non the hill
\nabove that cove
\nwith love one in arm
\nI would
\nwithout fear
\nface north
\nto peer across
\nthe Gulf of St. Lawrence<\/p>\n

and whisper goodbye
\nto Pd Lietz
\nmy dear friend
\nand fellow artist
\nin Manitoba<\/p>\n

I’d patiently
\nand peacefully
\nwait in silence
\nfor my maker
\naccompanied by
\nthe angel of death<\/p>\n

it would be then
\nwith poise
\nI would ask the creator<\/p>\n

the why
\n~ \u00a0 \u00a0for all this living<\/p>\n

peace out<\/p>\n

Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n

This poem will be a part of the June edition that’s a collaboration by the 2015 Poetry Posse \u00a0– The Year of the Poet II published by Inner Child Press. \u00a0 Buy your monthly copy Here: http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This poem is dedicated to my muse, dearest friend and fellow artist Pd Lietz. Pd was the first artist to take a chance, have the faith and confidence to do a Image with Words collaboration with me. Not a shabby start for this small town artist from Freeland, Michigan. ‘Cause Pd Lietz is one of … Continue reading “the why: on summer vacation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peaceoutpoems","category-poertyposse2015","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}