Cape Canaveral Poet Laureate

Our town has so many beautiful offerings.  The crossovers to the beach are an amazing place to watch the ocean and pay attention to the beautiful hammocks and dunes we have here.  The boardwalk at Manatee Sanctuary Park offers a wonderful view of the river and the mangroves.  Watch the sunset from one, and the sunrise from the other.  Mix it up, as the colors and wildlife change throughout the day.  Also, our community garden, Kairos, is situated just between the two.  Be sure to stop and see what is growing.  This is a free verse poem, so there is no set rhyme or meter.  It incorporates our own unique ecology and represents the wonderful balance between nature and humans in our community.   From the Crossover and Boardwalk, Smiling A skein of sea grapes in the hammock Forms a welcoming arch Live oaks create a carpet of acorns And pollen settles on the path Unfolding flawlessly into the dune Where glory v...

This is an original poem that was included in my submission for poet laureate.  It attempts to walk the reader through some of our city's unique history.  It is a free verse poem , meaning that it does not have a consistent rhythm or rhyme scheme, but rather splices in various literary elements to fit the feeling of the poem.  If you have never written poetry before, a free verse poem might be a swell place to start, because you do not have to worry about cadence, measure, or rhyme.  Instead, you just write from your heart (or your head) and let the ink flow.  If you have any examples of your own free verse poetry, please feel free to share.  This one was inspired watching the waves crash together and create little vortices from our own beach.  Watching the reflections swirl and play reminded me of Van Gogh's Starry Night painting.  Then, I could not help but think of all the prior occupants of our town seeing similar images playing on the ocean's...