In July's Verse-Virtual.com, a Little 'Canyon Music' Recalling an Unexpected Bonus from our Recent Visit to Canyon Country

July may be favorite month -- if it isn't June, or May. (Or maybe August or September... and you can make a wonderful case for October...)
          In my poems in this month's Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry magazine that publishes a full new issue every month, I pay a lingering revisit to the wonders of the Grand Canyon National Park. My poem "A Canon to the Canyons"offers a song of praise to an unexpected bonus from our recent Western adventure -- a complete holiday from any reference to our current National Disaster. 
          You know what I mean? Shhh! Not a word. Here are the first 2 stanzas of the poem. 

A Canon to the Canyons

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Introit: The canyons are beautiful
the canyons are awesome and full
            of folk, visitors all, always cheery, never a pall
It was a fine vacation --
            a vacation from the nation!

Refrain: And nobody talked about Trump!
not a mention, or a tension, or a gibe for your attention,
or a rant, or a cant, or a guy you'd like to plant
(will he grow? will he die? turn his roots up to the sky?)
And nobody talked about Trump!
 
For the entire poem see 
https://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2019-july.html



        I also contributed poem inspired, in part, by music. Actually, it was the title of an instrumental song performed by Rachel Grimes, titled "Earthly Heaven," that got me going. Here's the beginning of that poem, mixing a sense of the spiritual calm that comes from a satisfying yoga class, with a little something more "earthly."


Earthly Heaven


On an eastbound journey...
just back from yoga class,
recalling the three 'R's' --
Are you mindful?
Are you in the moment?
Are you checking out anyone else's bod?


To read he rest of this poem, see 
https://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2019-july.html

To find poems by all the contributors to the July 2019 Verse-Virtual, see 
https://www.verse-virtual.com/poems-and-articles.html