Reflections

By Beclee Newcomer Wilson

Reflections captures what emerges out of remembrance, moments of meditation, deep emotional experience, being inspired by all of nature, and sharing of human encounters. Contemplation, imagination, intellect, and reality are mined. Poems become a place to ponder, revisit, and share.

Inner space
thoughts have a place
to come and go

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524537821

Beclee Newcomer Wilson

Beclee Wilson was Poet Laureate of Napa Valley California from 2015 to 2017. She is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Women in Bits and Pieces, Tassajara Wind, and Winter Fruit. A graduate of Northwestern University from the School of Communication, she holds a MA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. Writing in many forms has been woven through her career in teaching, communication skill development, political involvement and, for the past several years, teaching fifth graders to enjoy and create poetry and introducing them to history through history as well as her own. She lives in Napa Valley, California, with her husband John, enjoying rural life on six acres.

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Library of Congress Control Number:   2016913950

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-5245-3784-5

   Softcover   978-1-5245-3783-8

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Rev. date: 11/19/2016

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Contents

A Boy’s Louisiana Morning

Morning Meditation

Where Music Takes Me

Impressionism

Meandering

Contemplation

Dream Flight

Opening Drawers

Up, Up, and Away

Time Passing

Blue Eyes / Blue Stones

Jersey Girl, 1955

Growing Apart

Remembering September 11

Washington, Ten Years Later

Camping at Grover Hot Springs

Writing at Grover Hot Springs

Homage to Anne Sexton

Turning Photo-Album Pages

Letting Go

Small Moments

Alone, My Muse and I

Garden Fable

Preparing for Tea

Reflection on Seasons

Who’s Wild?

Weeds

Imagine

Bothe Park

Vallejo Ferry Ride

Bay Travel/Heading Home

Mount Shasta

Tioga Pass Road

June Lake Loop / Sierra Nevada

Early Rising on Ghost Ranch Mesa

Georgia’s Wish

View at the End of the World

Pondering

All Holds Music

Breath Moving in and Out

For

Max Thomas

Sharing life’s adventure

While writing may take place in solitude, it’s wonderful to have companions who are poets, friends, and audiences who support and enjoy the final creations:

Helen Christian, Barbara Chambers, Anne Hamilton, Joan Westgate, Pat Friday, Rebecca Kuiken, to name a few special