by Lawrence Cooper | Dec 19, 2020 | Newsletter, Poetry Presentations
(from my new book, The Magic of Love, soon to be published) A Dream The sky reflects the mood. Blue yields to fifty shades of gray. Great wet raindrops splatter on my eastern window like tears spilled for the lost and lonely. They fall from a sky so low that the dark...
by Lawrence Cooper | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Run Passion. So much energy, so much blessed energy, propels the young to excel at something, a place to call home, a cause to celebrate, a purpose to explore, meaning to be felt, feelings to be understood and enlivened with the passion of a race in time. They...
by Lawrence Cooper | Nov 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(By Lawrence J.W. Cooper, Comox Valley Poet Laureate) The Wisdom of Age The days pass swiftly into oblivion. Time picks up speed and races ahead turning treasured memories into reruns of the present. But age does not define me. I am not a victim of my forgetful mind....
by Lawrence Cooper | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Given a Fair Chance There is no place to rest our heads. The moment of peace is so hard to find. The dream dances away beyond our hopes getting lost in the confusion of yesterday. The clouds that seemed so gray, appeared so vast and mighty, in a length of a poem are...