AUDIO: Poet Sarah Thomas reads “Firefly Fly Away Home”
Courtesy photo of North Carolina mountains
Sarah Thomas, formerly of French Creek, W.Va., now lives in the North Carolina mountains, and she called in a poem called “Firefly Fly Away Home.”
Enjoy.
58 seconds
She has published in “Appalachian Heritage Magazine,” and has something coming out in “Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine,” from the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee University.
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Scattered thoughts, becoming a poem
Worth mentioning are the many magnetic poetry links online, some of them interactive so you can build a magnetic poem on your computer screen. Click an example.
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“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall become a great poem.”
—Walt Whitman
