| WILLIAM R. FORD JR. | |||||||
| I am a fifty-three year old G. M. retiree, after thirty-five years on assembly lines. In that time I have managed to publish one hundred and eleven poems in literary magazine such as �Reeds� in California, �The San Fernando Poetry Journal� and many others. I also sell my own oil paintings in Lansing and am ranked on occasion between 95th and 105th in the state at Chess. In addition, I act as the host of a Civil War museum at Charlton Park, Hastings Michigan, complete in Period Dress. | |||||||
| "Far Beyond, the Dusty Country Road
" On to share the mist filled musty air and falls touch of harvest songs dry chaff floating by and there along where the heart does hold near the hill of golden dusk with footsteps far beyond an ancient sallow song beneath the harvests heavy load along the dusty country road �Old Stories, in the Broad Meadow� Often you hear the soft lament light wind through the quiet air light brown meadow, lying among the old tales there old stories, lost ages among the time other days and through the brush young deer do tear all among the old tales there like airy sprites sallow but fair and going among the old tales there �Blue Mists of Passing Time� Bright and bold striding out from the centuries the hidden road leading out from despair the road of the winding tree canopy way, as it was before had always been and more touches the heart, is felt and opens the final door at the distant horizon line passing forth from the ages lost in mists of passing time �The Indians Come Along, in Time� Along the dark brown river path the dark forbidding hidden past to visions in time that men do say come upon them there on given days distant figures in the mists of time there at the dark bank river line where many do consider it a sign You�ll see the Indians come along, in time �Morning Spirits� Lost walk now to the morning spirits who come gliding, curling and low light there and soft they flow they laugh now innocent now free of sin, they say hello, and say farewell not saying where they�ve been |
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