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Show ) aw I r i Poems? They Are Born of People, of Life Styles 4 v. Ac r V On a fall morning among the leaves and ram? While watching a spider gracefully slide down a sticky silken thread? Sitting on a log against an ft. I? :" rf, O'' v old white fence, touching a dead leaf, wet with cold rain- es&'3 drops? Maybe . . . When are poems bom? In a comfortable, warm room lying on our back on a soft couch, with time to think about the past? At a party with fnends talking, moving, colors swirling, music blaring and thoughts fermenting in a happy lone- ness? When are poems t v j rA m? .v- It never happens when I pursue it, I mean, when I try to write what I think I should, says Susu Knight, a Utah poet. Talking gives lots of ideas. A phrase you say or hear strikes you, you tuck it in the back of your mind and the poem seems to grow. Another point of view: Jack A. Christensen, who was honored as Utah's Poet of the A quiet fall afternoon finds Jack A. Christensen in a pensive mood, writing poetry. See Page P E-- 8, Column The poets ivho met that night Pursued the moon across the sky Sending their boats with sails Of words after her always Salt alu Hribtm; retreating Image as if she were only Plum Woman or a carved jade goddess. And she, leaving her gray Willow laugh in her place in the dark, Descended as an orange Section E Sunday, November 2, 1969, Page One ricepaper Lantern to sit over them and watch As they drank their wine end wrote -- i Jck Praising her beauty with A. Christensen words t Bereft of a friendly wind. j 7 i f" ? t r tP v. A Mechanical devices tend to detract me, the poet says. Tribune Staff Photos by Bussell B. Odell, Lynn B. Johnson, and Earl Conrad ) i4 , 1 emptiness of autumns all too sudden harvesting. -- r - I think I started to write to turn people on to me Susu Knight is a very modem young; woman. The .You icere a child, And tied to naive innocence I but that is gone, For you have woven patterns Covering the dawn, and I laughter, j Covering the birth of trees, The budding of a daffodil, preferring, rather, unseen J anger in the svn . -. Ur X Y. t .. Susu Knight : , One look at Susu and you knew shes writer of poetry. something special iiUTfiiiife JPfBf&nut i HI & TWO STORES TO SERVE YOU n, W ' g n !t: TOm SHO- P- m !- as 470 So. 9th East TIM1.NS Open Monday Evenings till 9 P.M. ?- !: :T; OMEGA $ AOmtgA 3On catnpusaa Idaei fj Da i i r iff outer mes per fcotr Mol SpMdmoMr wrk iapd fcvea of Mioiim far Wcriateot wmng wads vt AS K$m V. As on official agency, oo proud tW Omega has boon selected by Christensen efi HUBBARD-DEN- 3LLL SHOP Open Evenings COTTONWOOD MALL Monday Thursday NXSi for ifas dard isse. to ail Apollo Astronaut. In fedt, Omega wrist watches worn on tbe scone during be first Amwictin opncfr onVing walk m outer space. The world Kos loomed to trust bocou they aro produced until tbo wort ececttng tors. Evory Ovnego Cmego woKh . undergo . wketbor ior on Astronaut or conventional aoor multiple quality-;- ! goed to Ostj !re;sc:3-- u t tiii.s mes1 sr- - ecctrocy. Yes.'!! such proved dependability , . . even if you aren't on Astronaut, Omega fe obe tbe office! watch of many Olymprc Games. or O'J ha orbited tpocm of 17,000 St AGE.. Q A DREXEL SHOWCASE STORE r- - Tbe wtrfcfc dh dC G THE SPACE Friday N Jeweler: 230 South Main |