Poetry Issue 1
Poetry Fiction Essays
Shirley Allard
Grandpa's Barn
Grandpa’s barn once filled with life
now stands a vacant lot
rough and tumble timbered charm
a time that land forgot.
Around this sacred childhood place
grow fields of apple trees
the milking cows long since replaced
with busy honey bees.
Tending to and cleaning stalls
consumed my Grandpa’s day
while lofty beams enticed our falls
to the smells of new-mown hay.
He lived and breathed the rapture
of a fading country way
in my mind I walk those pastures
through the fields of yesterday.
Shirley resides in New Hampshire with her husband, Jim. She has two grown children and two young grandchildren who are the light in her life. Shirley spent many years in the newspaper business where she went from paste-up artist to publisher and almost everything in between.She is the founding publisher of Word Catalyst Magazine and writes the blog Whispers In The Wind.
Poetry Fiction Essays
