"Celestial Embrace"
By Sally Kindell
Distant Miles
Worlds Apart
City Skyscape
Northern Stars
Foshay Tower
Majestic Pine
Two Astronomers
Focus In . . .
I See the Moon . . .
YouAreEverNear
"When my youngest daughter was small, she would look up at the sky and recite the poem 'I See the Moon . . .' which would comfort her when her older sisters all moved far away from home. She felt closer, knowing that they also could see the moon. I wrote this poem as a way of comforting me after she moved to Minneapolis to begin college."
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"The Poet Empathizes with Gamers (and makes fun of them too)"
By Shane Teter
Off to United Nations Space Command,
Then on to a morning in Azeroth!
An animated, surrogate life --
We gamers move like ice on planet Hoth:
We run with our fingers; we fight with wrists;
And our tarsal bones are on-the-floor stiff.
Experience for experience points,
And memories traded for "saved game" lists:
Shall I compare you to a hydroponic
Tomato? I doubt you'll want me to.
Planted? Sunless CFLs? And Mountain Dew?
But how can I judge? I'm a gamer too.
"Because I'm old and mean, I don't really like or appreciate the games I've listed in my poem. Those games are for the young to waste their lives upon. I love real video games . . . the ones that I played when I was young and wasting my life. Games such as Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, Bard's Tale, and Baldur's Gate: That was the golden age, I tell ya."
