"Canada Pair" by Scot Storm‘Approaching Spring’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society March 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 2 Comments Approaching Spring Above the mountain, under the sky, Canadian Geese, you hear their cry, Over the mountain, hear them sing, Man and Wife, approaching Spring. Charge to Orion Gird thy blade and tighten belt Spurred unswayed by heights not felt Betelgeuse and Rigel fire Nimble Lepus; he shall tire Lepus: Hare pursued by Orion X X X X X Muir and Mountain Mountains calling I must go Valley falling, sage and beau Countless cactus, time unstained Desert trackless, clime unfeigned Indebted to John Muir’s “The mountains are calling and I must go” Photo of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument by Ajo Arizona X X X X All photos by Karwendelbilder. Neal Dachstadter is a poet living in Tennessee. His work has been printed in Decanto Poetry Magazine (UK), Western Viewpoints and Poetic Images: the Great American West (Woodinville, Washington), Society of Classical Poets Journal 2015 (Mt Hope, New York), Rocky Point Times (Puerto Peñasco, Mexico) and The Lyric (Jericho, Vermont). A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at the University of Georgia, he deployed to Hawija, then wrote on Lookout Mountain, continuing with Delta Kappa Epsilon International. Berkeley, Ann Arbor, and Athens encouraged him as a writer. In 2015 he wrote in Arizona at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument five miles north of Mexico. NOTE: The Society considers this page, where your poetry resides, to be your residence as well, where you may invite family, friends, and others to visit. Feel free to treat this page as your home and remove anyone here who disrespects you. Simply send an email to mbryant@classicalpoets.org. Put “Remove Comment” in the subject line and list which comments you would like removed. The Society does not endorse any views expressed in individual poems or comments and reserves the right to remove any comments to maintain the decorum of this website and the integrity of the Society. Please see our Comments Policy here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) 2 Responses Margaret O'Driscoll March 26, 2017 Alltogether beautiful beautiful, poems are gemstones, wonderful work Neal! Pictures compliment so well, bravo. Evan is a class editor! Reply Neal March 26, 2017 Thank you for the gracious statement. The photos speak, so to speak. Evan’s a pioneer. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Margaret O'Driscoll March 26, 2017 Alltogether beautiful beautiful, poems are gemstones, wonderful work Neal! Pictures compliment so well, bravo. Evan is a class editor! Reply
Neal March 26, 2017 Thank you for the gracious statement. The photos speak, so to speak. Evan’s a pioneer. Reply