Mary Mayer Shapiro

FRONTIER BOUNDARY 

New frontier 

Virgin land 

Pioneers approach 

With Conestoga wagons 

Section acres 

For all to have 

Build Houses 

Barns 

Plow the fields 

Remove the rock 

Border the land 

With rocks fences 

Years fly by 

Pioneers long 

Gone 

Replaced by villagers 

Rock fences are stationary 

Motionless in place  

As a reminder  

Of original 

Frontier boundary 

Fences make for 

Good Neighbors 

DREAMS GONE ASTRAY 

Little rock 

Looked up at 

The mountain 

Said to Daddy 

Bounder 

When I grow up 

That is what 

I want to be 

A great 

Mountain 

To challenge  

Mountaineers 

To climb me 

Daddy boulder replied 

You must have 

Patience 

As little rock 

Laid dreaming 

Along came 

Children 

Picking out 

Rocks to paint 

Little rock 

Fantasy, plans 

Gone astray 

Decorated, put  

On Display 

VOYAGE BY BIKE 

Roll along 

The countryside 

Peddle the bike 

Up and down hills 

Straight, curve 

Even, bumpy 

Potholes roads 

Wind blowing through 

Your hair 

Anemophily spreading 

fertilizing the land 

Seeing nature 

In full bloom 

Then changing  

From season  

To season 

Where did You travel 

Where did you go 

Perhaps 

Just around town 

Freedom of the  

Road