Posts Tagged Poem

  • Max’s Musings Max’s Musings

    By Max Molleston While those of us involved in reading poetry have certain favorites, they may be dead. That’s right, dead! Most of the poetry we are involved with nowadays is done by people within our memory, or within reach of our bookshelves or those at the bookstore or library we frequent....

  • Max’s Musings Max’s Musings

    By Max Molleston I compose poetry for those of us not schooled at University, even though some of us took an English Literature core course. I can be serious or write a poem that is filled with humor. Both are interesting for the poet, and one style may become the other as the muse driving the i...

  • Love Lights a Candle Love Lights a Candle

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...

  • Max’s Musings Max’s Musings

    By Max Molleston A couple of things this column will work with. Number one, it is Poetry Month. Another fact, not quite as unnoticed, and worthy is that the U.S. Civil War began 150 years in our past. Years ago I was challenged to produce a poem from letters produced from a lockbox in a Muscatine...