On my morning walks, the playgrounds are like ghost towns on an old TV set. Absent are the voices that rise in crescendos. Gone are the sweet giggles and the sibling challenges. To uplift my spirits, I imagine them in the summer sun, teeming again with children running about in reckless joy!
Bio:
Beth received her BS in Education from Radford University and her MSED from Shenandoah, University. Though retired from a lifelong career of teaching in Virginia Public Schools, she still continues to teach and enjoys time to write. The mother of two and grandmother of five, she has published in numerous journals and has a collection entitled Run, Meadow Run. She lives in Winchester, Virginia, and is currently working on a new publication.
Donation Appeal:
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
As you view the work on this site each day, we would like to encourage you to donate to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC). Their mission “ is to feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to supplemental groceries. AFAC is seeing a record number of families due to the COVID-19 pandemic as families who never thought they would ever be in need are now showing up at our doors for much needed food.” And, in keeping with our hunger-focused efforts, you may also want to visit the Poetry X Hunger website where poems by many poets are posted and are being used by anti-hunger organizations.”
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
Please consider donating to AFAC. If you do, let us know which poet or artist inspired you so we can send you a personal thank you.
