Forgotten Poems and Art

By Jonathan S. Connelly and Mildred A. Connelly

I had the idea to create this book with my Mom so that we could share my poetry and her artwork, some of the simple beauty in our lives that is all too often forgotten. The world is changing significantly, but remembering all that has been forgotten, all that has been good and even great, is what this book is about. We hope you enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan S. Connelly
• Release date: Mar 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005037413

Jonathan S. Connelly

About the Poet, Jonathan Stephen ConnellyI grew up in the greater Philadelphia area and entered the Navy in 2000 when I was 17 years old. I wrote these poems while I was at my first assignment, the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI. Translating what I saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt into these poems helped me grow and laid the foundations for my Naval career. I had the idea to create this book with my Mom so that we could share my poetry and her art, some of the simple beauty in our lives that is all too often forgotten. The world has changed significantly since the year 2000, but remembering all that has been forgotten, all that has been good and even great, is what this book is about. We hope you enjoy.

Book preview

Sometimes I think that I will miss

The wind whispering through the trees,

The gulls singing their random songs,

The ocean rolling upon the shore,

And the dull resonance of a foghorn

Sounding from a boat far off in the bay.

I fade in restless sleep

When nothing is left to do.

Remembering, remembering my Navy blues.

A song so sad and oddly satisfying,

I whisper of it in my letters home.

What will it be like when I return there?

To the shores of rock

Where there are as many full sails

As birds in the wind.

In a barren place comes such bold beauty.

Where others fear comes courage to me.

But in what world can I find such a place?

Not in a cottage or a place of God.

For this beauty is human and natural.

It is bedtime, so softly I must sleep.

-Jonathan Stephen Connelly-

August 24, 2000

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Ship 1971

Medium: watercolor on watercolor paper over graphite

Dimensions: 10.5 x 14 inches

One of my earliest paintings, Ship was completed during my junior year of high school. My early work exhibits a free-flowing impressionistic style that came naturally.

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Sarah

With the eloquent rhyme of her words,

She touches my heart and soul,

Can infatuation feel like this?

Or can it be that I am in love.

Like arms of embrace,

I wrap my mind around the essence of her.

I anticipate the moment we meet,

Like a skipper awaits an inevitable puff of wind,

The moment when every second lasts an hour

And emotion fades away like a dream.

Once this