Show Poems on Utah Scenery Reveal Writers Writer's s Genius Minnie J J. J Ha Hardy dy Interprets Life Nature in SO 1 Sons PiG Pictures ures Bingham Binghan CopperMine CopperMine Copper CopperMine Mine in Verse By ZINA HICKMAN Minnie J. J Hardy is a poet loet in whom Utah may well be proud to have a share for though h not a a. native na na- na- na live tive she makes Utah her home by choice and with her poet soul claims all of beauty that the state affords For what greater reater claim can cam canone canone one make upon beauty than to paint it upon canvas or mold it with a sculptors sculptor's hands or immortalize immortalize immor immor- it in verse With a versatility r born of sturdy pioneer heritage added to her own i experiences of travel study and meeting with others in varied walks walks' of life that with those deeper in inner inner in- in ner nor experiences life Is wont to thrust upon some more mol than others Mrs I ard interprets life and na na- na- na 1 ture One ls is particularly aware of ofa a detachment from all prejudice from petty and strife one is happily aware of the warmth of an eye ete trained to beauty in its truest in her songs of Utah The force that drove the pioneer on Prevails as in the days of yore It wakes the hills hUls at rose-hued rose dawn With echoes of the motors motor's roar As mighty winged ed Argosies Arg Alight beside your rOUl inland seas PICTURES BINGHAM It is not so easy a a. matter to tomake tomake make malte poetry spring from the torn and bleeding breast of Mother Earth yet of the Worlds World's greatest copper mine at Bingham the author makes of whirring wheels and belts bets crushers and flotation tanks of master mastel minds and willIng will will- Ing hands an industrial poem that for its scope rivals tl ose of poets of wider fame and lends in words to the pictorial element of the mine Then mid explosives explosive's roar these willing hands Carved a a. huge Jacobs Jacob's ladder to the sky It is not hard to discover of what beauty spot of Utah the author sings s in the words J 1 A A Dantes Dante's inferno A forest on fire With ever the flames leaping l higher gher and higher Burning consuming the sins of our souls When hen up from the heart of the furnace furnace furnace fur fur- nace there roll rolI Beau Beautiful things That Is it is not hard If one has perched on the edge of the at Bryce canyon and felt as Mrs Hard Hardy has that all dross and sin were forever burned away in the heart of this furnace of Gods God's own making and that out of the burnIng burning burning burn burn- ing Ing- came beauty to reign reig-n forever NATURE POEMS VIVID But for whimsicality and pure imaginative im im- quality we turn to the nature poems of the author The Clouds needs no melody other than the measure of its own rhythm to carry it t along They are born born- of spra spray and mist And at night they float noat and drift Weird elrd arid and like ghost oer o'er the hill When the busy world is still And asleep But with mornings morning's crimson beam They are sun dyed rose and gleam Rainbow-hued Rainbow and opal-kissed opal Neath a sky of amethyst st Blue and deep High Hig-h noon they float through h space space Like some priceless precious lace Made of f gossamer fine fine and frail Like the snowy wedding veil Of a a. bride blide The Death of My Iy Sweetheart Rebuffed Desert Flowers and Lit Litanies e are among among- some of her I other lovely l lyrics Not the least among the virile virne bits bib she has done are her narrative poems and ballads that have been published at Intervals intervals intervals inter inter- vals with her finer more sensuous bits Cowboy sailor miner sheepherder sheepherder sheepherder sheep- sheep herder pioneer appear in full rull re regalia regalia re- re galia and native vernacular to rival the Kit Carson ballads of frontier days No doubt too often a reader seeks in tho the verse of a a. loved poet loopholes loopholes loopholes loop loop- holes that will reveal reveal- between the lines ines the-intimate the character and th the philosophy of life of the writer To Ton n many any poets the doctrine that Truth is beauty beauty truth is dent Beyond that Hf life is mere con con- jecture Not so with Minnie Hardy One cannot read Sunrise in the Desert without knowing of a certainty certainty certainty of the authors author's firm belief in immortality One cannot follow through the the- rhythmic lines of I I Walk Valk No NoMore More With Sorrow without without without with with- out feeling feelIng- the authors author's security In Inthe Inthe the final triumph of faith The en enticIng enticing en- en ti ing first lines of the poem which the the reader feels are more than are indeed reality in its deepest sense Three Portents came to dwell with me meThe meThe meo o The day that I wa was born And one had wings upon her feet and a gown of white chiffon And one was wal sweet and lovely Like the fragrant flowers In May Ma And one was garbed g in clinging robes Of dark darc and somber ra g-ra gray MANY POET FRIENDS Minnie J. J Hardy is a a. member of the League of American and numbers among her friends Dr George Wharton James Joaquin Miller Iiller Ina ma Coolbrith Edward Markham Markham Mark Mark- larkham ham Arthur Chapman and other noted poets A number of Mrs Hardys Hardy's rI verses have been published in The Tele Tele- gram She Is author of Queen City of the Boundless West Vest the poem used with one of the front cover designs f for r The Telegrams Telegram's 1928 Annual Annual An An- nual Review |