Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Clear Crystals
    Clear Crystals
    Clear Crystals
    Ebook44 pages13 minutes

    Clear Crystals

    By Clara Frances McKee Beede

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "Clear Crystals" by Clara Frances McKee Beede is a collection of poems that take to the spiritual side of nature and living. From Soldier to His Mother to Hills and Valleys Wake, this collection contains beautiful books that capture the essence of what it means to live in the world. These books continue to find relevance among readers to this day the same way they did upon the book's first release.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 10, 2019
    ISBN4064066227784

    Read more from Clara Frances Mc Kee Beede

    Related to Clear Crystals

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Winters On The Farm

      Dec 5, 2023

      Winters On The Farm
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Island (catullus 64)

      Mar 1, 2022

      Back then the evergreens tumbled downriverfrom the glaze-white runoff to the boot-stirred puddlesof amber young men who fulfilled our destiny,who clambered into ships, on horses, and in wagonspainting the newfound landscapes ours.Our calling was nobl

      9 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      Jun 24, 2022

      Email your poems to: (editorial@choicemag.co.uk) or post to Your Poetry, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX I remember the tree from my youth,the way its leaves hissed in stormsweeping tears in driving rainand casting a

      2 min read

    • Article

      Merry & bright

      Dec 11, 2023

      Merry & bright
      6 min read

    • Article

      Mountain Time

      Jan 1, 2021

      In the air you don’t know who you are or where My own self feels it is in wind being born These are currents a man made one eighth of smokeless fire fears but chooses A path south from Anchorage to a Mountain House Ungovern the northern land to pass

      10 min read

    • Article

      Born To Be Wild

      Jan 4, 2023

      Born To Be Wild
      3 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      The embers of a Thousand YearsUncovered by the HandThat fondled them when they were FireWill stir and understand——from Emily Dickinson’s “1383” Remember when we hurriedourselves into the evening’s sacral blaze: Our coal-covered bridal gownsdrenched i

      6 min read

    • Article

      Until The Sea Closed Over Us And The Light Was Gone

      Jul 1, 2020

      —Dante, Canto XXVI But if the truth is dreamed of toward the morning—El Paso Although it was really last summer’s song,all this summer Despacito played on as slower then I turned myself to gazeupon Juarez. The summer everything hurts my eyes, a dozen

      6 min read

    • Article

      Portrait Of An Island

      Jun 3, 2021

      AN ISLAND provides refuge for refugees. Their roofs, tablecloths, and bedsheets wave from the port’s breeze. Temporarily permanent, adjacent to the water, each tent kneels behind the mayor’s office and in front of a tenth-century castle. The locals p

      4 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Sep 4, 2018

      In London. England. Who knows why?Perhaps this rumpled guyFrom central casting or a page of Dickens.He’s taking ordinary usTo haunts of the illustrious,Where even dull pulse quickens. A red felt hat’s dark fingered brim,Food-spotted vest are—him.A mo

      4 min read

    • Article

      Poetry of Place

      May 30, 2023

      Poetry of Place
      9 min read

    • Article

      Paul,

      Jul 1, 2020

      Houston, April 2019 The coarse and leafy stalks, like memory,Began to soften in my hands. The kaleMassaged with olive oil and salt. Silently, You sat on the couch as if in grisaille,Scrolling through the twitter of the state.A fragile, bluesy cover s

      14 min read

    • Article

      A Walk Etched In Memory

      Feb 25, 2020

      A Walk Etched In Memory
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tessa Castro

      Jul 26, 2023

      IN COMPETITION No 295 you were invited to write a poem called Roots. Cherry MacGregor started off in medias res: ‘Has the vine died? My husband had asked,/ As we enjoyed lunch in the garden.’ Another excellent opening came from DM Davis: ‘Roots, oh m

      2 min read

    • Article

      Brightest Blessings!

      Dec 12, 2021

      Brightest Blessings!
      5 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      Feb 25, 2022

      Sunshine, showers,Brightly coloured flowersThe glories of Spring aboundThe days brightenOur mood lightensNew life is all around. Warm rays, sunny daysNature comes aliveBuds become flowers of varying huesPinks, yellows, reds and bluesShowers of blosso

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Epic Of Gilgamesh

      Jan 1, 2020

      My friends, who can reach heaven? The monster bellows like a river swollen with flood.Many are consumed in his fiery breath. My friends, who can reach heaven? Let us ask the mountain for a sign.Let us cut the spirits from the cedars. My friends, who

      3 min read

    • Article

      Moon Lake Memories

      Mar 14, 2019

      Moon Lake Memories
      4 min read

    • Article

      Scarlet Ribbons

      Oct 20, 2022

      I was two when I came to love the tiny, red flowers that spilled over the worn doorstep of my first home and splattered the cracked pathway to the beck with vibrant colour. Like Hansel’s breadcrumbs, the scarlet pimpernel ribbon was my security on th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Gold In Small Places

      Feb 12, 2019

      Gold In Small Places
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tidings of GREAT JOY

      Dec 11, 2022

      Tidings of GREAT JOY
      5 min read

    • Article

      Longing For A Crowded House

      Nov 10, 2021

      Longing For A Crowded House
      2 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2022

      Early such darkness, these oncoming nights& sure, I’m dull & even slow to concedehow mornings make equal, swerving measuresthere between those foremost shadowsalong the fence, amid the chickens & nerve,sheep & their indifference to any pair of foolsh

      3 min read

    • Article

      Triangle of Light

      Aug 25, 2022

      Triangle of Light
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Darling Buds Of May

      May 10, 2023

      Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney song And hedge row crickets notes that run From every bank that fronts the sun… Lines from May, from The Shepherd’s Calendar b

      1 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Clear Crystals

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Clear Crystals - Clara Frances McKee Beede

      Clara Frances McKee Beede

      Clear Crystals

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066227784

      Table of Contents

      MOTHER'S PRAYER

      LET THERE BE PEACE

      WHAT IS THIS WISDOM

      SOLDIER TRAINS

      DEAR POSSESSIONS

      THE UNBIDDEN TEARS

      THE PROMISE OF SPRING

      THE DAYS LIVE AGAIN

      ROLLING TRUCKS

      AT DUSK

      THE MORNING

      O RIVER BANK

      THERE WILL COME A DAY

      LATE AUTUMN

      ALL HAIL RED CROSS

      OUR MORNING PRAYER

      SOLDIER TO HIS MOTHER

      IN THE STORM

      TO US

      THE FLY AND THE SPIDER

      HER GOOD BYE

      HILLS AND VALLEYS WAKE

      MORNING THANKSGIVING

      OFF TO THE WOODS

      THE HAPPY CAMPERS

      THE PROMISE

      IN REFLECTION

      MEN MUST TOIL

      THAT CLOSE DRAWN VEIL

      OUR MORNING LESSON

      WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME

      MOTHER'S PRAYER

      Table of Contents

      For this new day, our Father, we give thee thanks.

      Thou hast blessed us with rest for our bodies,

      The glories of a new day are upon us, a gift from above.

      Let the light from heaven penetrate our

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1