GreeneCountyNewsOnline is celebrating April as National Poetry Month with original poetry by readers every Sunday this month. All reader/poets are welcome to submit original work for posting.
Pastor Deb Griffin wrote “The undoing of Psalm 23” as a re-write of Psalm 23 from the perspective of someone who is their own shepherd. “This is what life can feel like when we don’t let God lead us or ‘shepherd’ us,” she told her congregation at Central Christian Church in Jefferson two weeks ago. Click here for the poem: https://greenecountynewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The-undoing-of-Psalm-23.pdf
Kathy Hankel of Jefferson enjoys a metaphor in telling of meeting a haughty Number 4. Read her poem here: https://greenecountynewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Number-four.pdf
Nancy Bardole Hanaman shares a poem she wrote two years ago upon the “decommissioning” of the Rippey School. She attended school there from 1951 to 1962. Read her poem here: https://greenecountynewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Farewell-to-the-Rippey-School.pdf
