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Show Utah L Begins Today n Poetry ' 11111 By PHYLLIS PHILLIPS "Beauty is its. own excuse for being," wrbie Ralph Waldo Emerson -- in The Rhodora. This is Poetry Week, and beautiful poetry is certainly its own excuse being. salutes Herald The all Central Utah Today poets and is happy to illustrate a few of the many poems sent in to observe Poetry Week. Mrs. Cherry McKay is Poetry Day representative of the Utah Poetry Society for this area, and it was threugh her efforts that these poems were made available. Poetry . Day will be celebrated Tuesday, Oct. 15. All during the coming wreek The Herald w,ill print poems. Poets are invited to submit contributions. Poets featured today are Mrs. McKay of the Utah League of Writers, Provo Chapter; Mrs. Christie Lund Coles, Utah Poetry Society; Mrs. Jeanne Budge, Writers Section of the Women's Council of Provo and Mrs. Ann Hafen, National League of American Penwomen. I fr ) r 0 4 II v. V . r ' i fry J f 'in' j .SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1957 rrr mmrni r - ' r fx?. r , s. (K r-- 4 of- IP, 'A r.v 11. v 4 3 . 14 1 I : i 1 ? -- : '$ I " ' s " B A. rs SUMMER IS SEASONS LONQ Summer is Seasons long to a child: Deep as tall wheat And sweet As the taste of of the stem of clover; " - . , . V . ' ' . - l ' ' , !; t ' ' h . ' - ' ' i " ' - - i Summer is forever to a child: Something to keep In sleep And always when summer is over. I 't . ' ' ' - . . , ' ' ; ' ' ' 4 I Christie Lund Coles (Photo by Leonore Carter, Herald staff photographer) i1." fe. J. MORNING Sunlight plucks with prying fin germ At my curtained eyes. The muted notes from distant bells In crystal cadence rise, And over my awakening valley On a thousand slender spires, The Day has its beginning In the smoke from breakfast fires. Jeanne Budge -- ' . r POSSESSION Here is a sense of possession: Trees are Mountains are strong guardians; And shadows, soft on the land, Are rivers of wind, blown With heady scents from orchards. Sky breathes with my: breathing," As though the hour were my own j Lightning quickens the air, And life within is known. Cherry McKay ; home-grow- n; (Photo by M. Grant Bartholomew, Herald staff photographer) .''""'- ,!??-4 S x ' IFtlS 1' sSw i i v ' f- - ' ? i 4 S I) H ? t W V - - T ST " s 53 TIMBERLINE TREES The Pine Had the old pine never met adversity Its form cotild.be as regular .As a sheltered garden tree. But the winds swept down from the Arctic And the gales whipped in from the sea. They wrestled in its branches. Lo A personality! The Spruce Not of the sheltered gardens Where seedling spruce evolve To patterned hoop-ski- rt ladies Wafting silver fans. But weathered and alone, On a continent's roof garden Landscaped by the wind v And hedged by sky, The old tree breasts the world. Thistle-dow- n of cloud Is in its branches. I Dawn to moonnse, moonrise to dawn, Its purple shadow swings-Pendu- lum of the mountain's' granite clock " t That times the ages! ? t: V V-- r i y : !' t - 1 I kJ I By Ann Hales . - ' : : v |