Voices of Spencer Creek

Berley Lakes© Michael Kemp

Poet and painter Jane Cox Farmer came to the Pacific Northwest as a girl from West Texas in 1937. She fell in love with the places and creatures of this gentle rain forest of the West.

Conversion

Does a butterfly remember her caterpillar day
How a chrysalis grew wings to fly?

Can a frog recall her wriggling tadpole stage
Amazed that she has legs to leap so high?

Can the oak awake a memory of the acorn?
Or the pine know the seed within the cone?

Or a bird look back upon his egg form
And wonder how he learned to sing his song?

But a man can recollect his boyhood,
A woman call to mind her girlish ways,

And know that in their spirits' growth and learning
Is blessing 'till the end of earthly days.

Jane Cox Farmer


Copyright 2000 by Jane Cox Farmer

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Voices of Peace, Volume V
Dr. Andreas Toupadakis' Notebook
W.H. Auden's poem September 1, 1939
Sam Smith of the Progressive Review writes Nobody Left But Us
Robert Jenson explains why extraordinary Corporate Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy
DynCorp is Something to Watch
Norman Solomon on New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit, Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger Than Cloud, and Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language
Patrick Morris, actor and director writing on the theatre's Hourglass Challenge
Marvelous Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival
World Choral Music
Photographer and web designer Stephen Voss
Stephanie Korschun's Insect Drawings, a class apart.
That Photo Guy,
Barbara S. Thompson's My Life chronicles a journey of courage by a real story teller, Chapter 3.
Mary Zemke of Stop Cogentrix says "Standing tall - Opposition floods the proposed Grizzly Power Plant."
Norman Maxwell writes to the Editor - a Summary of the Fire Road Preservation Struggle.
Patricia Frank tackles Spring Cleaning the Closet.
Lois Barton's Sunnyside of Spencer Butte finds the Heron Rookery.
M.G. Hudson's Spencer Creek Journal remembers Laddie and the baby goats as the war on terrorism affects Spencer Creek Valley
Ryan Ramon's Life on the 45th Parallel, Rain & Ramallah.
WxNW.org Web-Wise Links
DEN, from Defenders of Wildlife.

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