Honeymoon Adventure Continues ******* Climbing Mt. Washington ******* My wife and I once climbed Mt. Washington as part of our belated honeymoon.But halfway up the rangers steered us off the trail covered from landslide in the night. So up the Lion’s Head we pulled our weighty bodies …
Honeymoon Adventure ******* Allan and Lynn had quite an unexpected adventure climbing Mount Washington during their honeymoon. Due to a landslide on the Tuckerman Ravine trail, the usual way up Mount Washington, it was necessary to climb up the Lion’s Head trail. To say this was quite demanding is an understatement. They climbed over large …
Personal Reflections ******* Allan had many other personal adventures, some in New Hampshire and Maine when he and his brothers hiked and camped during summer vacations. Allan met Lynn at Florida State University, and after they both graduated, they married in 1965. Allan was an English teacher in a high school and then a college …
Beyond the Dam – The fourth sonnet ******* Beyond the Dam What mighty waters flow this sunny day! How speeding current washes o’er and round Those rapids piercing powerful Penobscot’s sway Through manless scenes of nature’s roaring sound! . How waves of main wash o’er our logged deck! With raft, and paddle crude in hands, …
Beyond the Dam – The Third of the Four Sonnets ******* Before and Beyond the Dam Before the dam, the cardboard channel chokes With pulp dumped up course from a paper mill. Approaching the dam, we guide our raft with strokes To shore and spend the night with a whippoorwill. . Then being reassembled beyond …
Beyond the Dam – The second of the four sonnets ******* Here we have another version of a Beyond the Dam sonnet … when he got carried away with his rhyming dictionary. ******* Penobscot Perversed ******* The sonnet with this title first Was like the river, poorly versed. The water ran with foam – the …
Introduction to Beyond the Dam – The four sonnets ******* We begin with Allan’s amazing adventure with Leonard, his brother, going down the Penobscot River in Maine on a homemade wooden raft. Allan wrote several versions of the sonnets Before and Beyond the Dam over the years when a student in 1963 at Florida State …
The Sonnet This book, being mostly sonnets, needs some introduction to the art of the sonnet. Allan’s wife Lynn (who has put this volume together) especially greatly admires the musicality of the sonnet form. Besides the meaning within a sonnet, one of the main pleasures comes from the rhythm patterns and the music it creates. …
In the Conclusion to this book of Allan’s sonnets and poems, he writes: “Reading, including not only non-fiction and fiction, but also poetry, is the closest thing to true magic that humans possess. It allows us to enter the mind of another person, to see what they see, experience what they feel, and understand their …
Allan, a poet at heart, has been writing sonnets and poems since his college days. He writes in his Preface: “When a book of poems is opened, what does the reader hope to find? Generally, we find one wants a poem to have some kind of beauty and meaning. … The purpose of this collection …
Beyond the Dam, Sonnets and Poems Allan’s book of Sonnets and Poems, Beyond the Dam, is now available on the websites of Balboa Press, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. (A note about the Kindle version: the format changes depending on how you set it and the best is to change to “view full screen” (the …