Author: Prairiepoet

Had my first ever book signing at “Hooked on Books ” in downtown Colorado Springs on April 30, 2022. Nice time , good turnout. This is the email ad sent out by the store before the event.

POETRY EVENT:
Hear a Poet with Heart

Colorado Poet
Dennis McMahon

Reading & Signing
A Place Called Alice
(Alice, is the town in North Dakota, where Dennis grew up)
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Here at Hooked on Books, 1 to 3 pm Saturday April 30,
Bring your friends!
With light refreshments

From his title poem; “A Journey of No Distance”

Though I am alone and far from there
I have them with me still those things I love.
The winter nights
The Northern lights
Summer’s yellow green
The amber gold of fall
And quiet
Quiet so quiet almost I feel
I’m an interloper in a foreign land—

When the crystal shard of a Meadowlark at song
Serves it seems
Only to defy the silence
When the haunting call of an austral bound Canada Goose
Vibrates the very ashes of my bones. . .

Come to hear Dennis sharing his poetry and signing his book,
A Place Called Alice,
Saturday, April 30 at 1 to 3 pm
Bring your family and friends

Thank you,

Hooked on Books

Well, it finally happened , after much frustration and many delays, my book of poetry ” A Place Called Alice ” is available on Apple Books , Amazon , and Barnes & Noble

In the tongue of the Dakotah
it is the country of the grass.
The grass that’s greasy in the wind
For the way it slips and swirls
whispers in the breeze
catches light like waves
in a sea of opalescent green
It isn’t just the wind
there’s a feeling too that’s there
of a majesty beneath the sound
that slips within my soul.
I ask myself sometimes
is it an echo
of when the world came first to be?
A kind of grace note maybe?
On an instrument played by God
when he holds his finger on the key
plays a note so low it almost isn’t there.
I wonder too if others hear it
or is it only me?
I wish that I
could climb inside that note somehow
feel the world from there.
It is the elemental essence that I feel I think.

A reminder

that spirit never sleeps
In the country of the grass
that’s greasy in the wind

When the sun is past midway
in it’s austral journey
and it’s starting to appear
a little watered to the eye.
When the temperatures at night
drop well below the freezing mark
and those damn mosquitoes
have long since given up the fight.
When I’m walking through a shelter belt
and fallen leaves
boil up around my feet
and Alice Slough is bivouac
to a hundred thousand ducks and geese.
It’s then the golden days of summer
surrender to the polished amber of the fall.
It’s the air I think,
mostly it’s the air.
Looking at the world
through the crystal Autumn air.