Two poems in Sketchbook

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Two Poems Published at Lit Up Magazine

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A.D Winans & MK Chavez interviewed

in Issuew #2 of Side of Grits...

lots of good writing found here

Brian Morrisey is up

writing of Hayden Carruth at the RUSTY TRUCK

Aleathia Drehmer Featured

at the Rusty Truck

joe the poet

read at Opium Poetry 2.o

Looking for Kerouac…by Scot Young

Published here

according to the geneva convention…by Scot Young

published in opium poetry 2.0

Dear Dad

Dear Dad
I found these poems in mom’s things many years after you both passed.  She never gave them to you but tucked them away with old bank statements and keepsakes. So now, I will put them in this bottle and throw it out into this night, hoping one day you will find it.  And it is my hope that if you are with her on this cold February, you will hold her close as if you never left.
Miss you,
Scot

I Wanted to See You Again
I Loved You

I am the one who loved you…
a love so deep from its start
that the passing of years & the teardrops
cannot dim its glow in my heart

I am the one who loves you…
a love that is like a flower
that blooms always in my memory
as I live again some perfect hours

I am the one who lost you…
even teardrops can give no relief
for only shadows surround me
as I live alone in my grief

Yes, I am the one who loves you…
my love is the one that lives on
for you are forever beside me
though I know you are gone.

Someday
When I called you that day I was lonesome
and I longed for the sound of your voice
for just one little word that you speak
can make my whole life rejoice.

Then today when I saw you again
I should have known at the start
that always, along with the gladness & joy
I’ll be left with a pain in my heart

Someday I know I will learn to forget
and dreams will die with the years…
then I can sleep again as before
on a pillow not wet with tears

–Catherine B. Young
1922-1993

Road Trip: Woodyfest 2009

I have been selected as one of 12 poets to read  at the Woody Guthrie Music Fest in Okemah OK–his hometown this July.  George Wallace NYC was the judge.   Notable acts as Judy Collins, Pete Seager, Arlo Guthrie and others often frequent the stages there.

The names of the other poets have not been released yet.

But the best part is that Davis Anram will accompany the poets.  David traveled with Jack Kerouac and backed him up.  How sweet is that.