Are You a Poet
  But You Don't 
  Realize It? 

 

 

 

Send Us Your Poems (haiku, limerick, free verse, iambic pentameter, what-have-you); Prose, Scenes, Cartoons, to be Exhibited Here for the World to See!! (email them to bryck@contined.umass.edu )

While discussing the matter of succession
the board had a distinct impression
the person they chose
immediately arose
and collapsed in a deep depression

-Barbara Bryck, mother and former business partner of Ira Bryck

Dad's way of thinking
Worked for him but not for me
I need to switch gears

-Ira Bryck, director, UMass Family Business Center

 

Our meeting of minds
accepting our differences
made father: brother

-Ira Bryck, director, UMass Family Business Center

THE MISSING LLAMAS SONG

Sometimes I wake up a cryin'
When the crispy light of the moon's a dyin'
I never shoulda went inside
When the wind was blowin' like a rippppptidddde..
Oh!
A broken fence and ten in the woods
I never told you I wished that I could
Have a fence as strong and good
As that one they built in chinaaaa!
Oh!
The darkened shadows run, I chase
Through frozen fog, I miss your face
Your pecan pie, the human race,
It's a bad analogeeeeee!

(instrumental riff here, with a big, emotional wind-down)

But now
the fence is closed
And the waaaaaater bucket's hosed
And a broken fence
and ten in the woods
are a chapterrrrrrrr
that's closed.

(strum, strum, strum...fade....)"

- written by a friend of Faye and John Omasta of Hickory Dell Farm in Northampton when they and their 3 dogs chased 10 llamas through the woods and fields after they escaped through the fence

 

 

 

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