Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

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

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Musings
    Musings
    Musings
    Ebook102 pages24 minutes

    Musings

    By Milton Sipple

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Peruse this eclectic collection of poems written over 50 years ago, and muse along with the author. They are timeless as they explore the range of human emotions during a particular time in his life. Explore the thoughts and feelings from love, beauty of nature, hope, disappointments, dreams, fears, and being trapped in a job. Visualize these words alongside beautiful nature photography which at times adds to the poem. There are lines like this “ B52 is a firefly riding the end of a birch log skimming a sea of milk-blue opalescence’. Or’ savoring the feel of the earthskin beneath my feet.” 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOutskirts Press
    Release dateOct 13, 2023
    ISBN9781977269331
    Musings
    Author

    Milton Sipple

    Born in November 1937, Milton grew up on a small farm just outside of Erie, PA. He attended Gannon and Edinboro colleges, where he studied English and Philosophy. He married and raised 3 girls while working for many years at AT&T. Later, he left his job to pursue a career as an antique dealer and furniture restoration specialist, which he continues to this day. Milton later married again gaining a step-daughter, and raised a son who is an environmental educator and the nature photographer for this book.      Starting in the 1960s, Milton developed a love for writing poetry and hoped to someday publish his works in a book. This dream was to wait another sixty years before finally becoming a reality with this long awaited collection.      Milton lives on a small homestead in Saegertown, Pennsylvania and has resided there since 1962. He has developed a strong interest in gardening and preserving nature on the property. Recently he began raising monarch butterflies as a summertime hobby. 

    Related to Musings

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      An Interview With Xueyan

      Jun 24, 2023

      An Interview With Xueyan
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Healing Power

      Dec 12, 2020

      The Healing Power
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Two Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      -ina: This suffix is used as an independent name,but doesn’t your little one deserve more?—a baby name origins website as in, I spent my playground days gasping endless into a machineas in, my elders blessed me with a second name, to ward off spirits

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      TELL ME A Story

      Mar 31, 2023

      TELL ME A Story
      21 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Named After the Animal

      Oct 13, 2020

      Named After the Animal
      18 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Art of Poetry No. 106

      Dec 15, 2019

      The Art of Poetry No. 106
      30 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      It’s Not You, It’s Me

      Sep 1, 2021

      Like many of you reading this, I mispronounced words growing up that I first encountered in books. These words gained a life of their own in the quiet hallways of my mind. This internal sense of sound and language had a tendency to trump the world’s,

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Must-Read Poetry: November 2020

      Nov 5, 2020

      Stop obsessively refreshing the New York Times's elections page, and check out these new books of poetry by Alice Quinn, Margaret Atwood, Yi Lei, Karina Borowicz, Valzhyna Mort, and Paul Celan. The post Must-Read Poetry: November 2020 appeared first

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Three Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      That the semi-circular canal is part of my ear,not a style of Venetian waterway arch,I learned mid-air on a Huffy.That bicycles left long out in the rain split.That prepositions are tricky.That I was made part industrious,part lazy-assed. That descri

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Reports From Near And Far

      Nov 25, 2021

      susanne paola antonetta MY HOMETOWN of Bellingham, Washington, is a last corner of the continental United States, a final chew of land before the long drink of the Pacific. We’re bound to the west by water, to the east by mountain, and twenty miles t

      17 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Four Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy

      Dec 15, 2017

      Watching little Henry, six, scoop up blueberriesand shovel them into his mouth, possessed. I’m so glad I brought blueberries—wish my kidscould/would eat them. Cal can’t; Simone won’t. Henry’s sisters, Lucy & Jane, took turns feeding eachother goldfis

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In The Spotlight:your Writing Dark Side

      Dec 7, 2023

      Spooky season evidently offered creative inspiration aplenty for the WM writers, who responded to the call for writing in November’s crime-themed issue on the theme of ‘Dark Side’ with our fullest mailbox yet. The poetry and prose sent in demonstrate

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2019

      before I was one I heard every soundas a sound that had never been heard,before I was one I saw every lightas a light separate from dark, colorhidden in a place I had not been.Before I was one I used feet to wakenin water, to pedal through air,hands

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      An Open Palm

      Apr 14, 2022

      An Open Palm
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Must-Read Poetry: January 2018

      Jan 9, 2018

      Here are six notable books of poetry publishing in January. Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips Listen to Nina Simone’s stirring classic that inspired Phillips’s title, and then settle into this masterful collection. Phillips has found the sweet union

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In The Palace Of Forgetting

      Jan 1, 2023

      In the spring of 2019, poet Matthew Kelsey suffered the loss of his mother. Less than a year later, he would lose his father to COVID-19. The following is a poem-interview between Keith Leonard (questions) and Matthew Kelsey (answers) that began in J

      12 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2024

      A stick buried in grass is fabulous. Who knows what this means? The sky isa basket woven from shadows more subtle than shadows of the earth. Thisis to say, things are done quietly in the sky sometimes, too. You can partthe ferns and peer into clearin

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Cricket League

      Oct 1, 2020

      WINNERS MAY 2020 POETRY CONTEST I Wonder age 10 San Antonio, TX I Wonder I wonder what it’s like To be everyone else. What do they think about? Talk about? Feel? What’s it like To be short And look up at everyone else? What’s it like To not have a

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Being Human: The Poetry of Life

      Nov 23, 2016

      Being Human: The Poetry of Life
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Little Love

      Apr 5, 2023

      A Little Love
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Must-Read Poetry: October 2017

      Oct 3, 2017

      Poetry is malleable and moving; a form that will never tire of importance. The post Must-Read Poetry: October 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Fragrant

      Jan 18, 2022

      Fragrant
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Summer: A Love Story

      Apr 20, 2021

      It is a squalid time. The body grows tired of being a body. Sweat. Always. A thin film of it on the skin. Do not say dewy. Do not say glisten. I dream of endless green. Of wet. Of rain hammering the Earth. Of buds sprouting. I want to insist on life

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      TEN POEMS Translations of Rafael Alberti

      May 1, 2024

      Throughout the centuries,through the nothingness of the world,I, without sleep, search for you. Behind me, imperceptible,without touching my shoulders,my dead angel keeps watch. Where is Paradise,Shadow, you who have been there?I ask silently. Cities

      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Torres, On Her New Album And The Power Of Relentless Hope

      Sep 29, 2017

      On her latest album, Three Futures, Torres finds light in life's darkest moments, confronting fear, obsession and even unhinged ecstasy with faith and optimism.

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Paper Wasp

      Jun 3, 2019

      The Paper Wasp
      13 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Three Poems

      May 1, 2024

      Did you wait for mein the riverbed, undera smooth stone?Did I have to earn you,like a Chicago summer?A seed sproutingin harsh conditions?Stand in a long linefull of crossed fingers,all the whileyou lit up the marquee.Can I keep you?When they callyou,

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Musings

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Musings - Milton Sipple

      Musings

      All Rights Reserved.

      Copyright © 2023 Milton Sipple

      v1.0

      This is a work of poeticized non-fiction. The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

      This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Outskirts Press, Inc.

      http://www.outskirtspress.com

      Cover Photo by Andrew Sipple © 2023 Milton Sipple. All rights reserved - used with permission.

      Outskirts Press and the OP logo are trademarks belonging to Outskirts Press, Inc.

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Dedication

      To my children Lizbeth Sipple,

      Melanie Escobar, Victoria Estok,

      Andrew Sipple, Erika Valencic,

      granddaughters Jessica Yoos, Scout

      Valencic and Gemma Valencic.

      Also, to their mothers who helped

      them become successful and all

      provide service to their fellow

      humankind.

      Special thanks to Lizbeth Sipple for

      helping me with this body of work.

      To Andrew Sipple for his wonderful

      photography to grace this book with

      more beauty than can be told.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Musings

      Introduction

      Herein you will find my poems written back in the 1960’s and early 70’s while I was going to college part time to be an English teacher.

      I was influenced by the beat poets at the time. The ones that went to the coffee shops and read their poems. People either liked them or didn’t. Some became famous like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ezra Pound, and others.

      These are simple expressions of how I felt at the time from deep inside. I tried to use the right words to express the feelings I had.

      Some of these poems are as relevant today as they were back then. While the country is complicated, people are complicated, and I doubt it will ever end. But maybe if you ever read a poem and see how I felt, maybe you might understand better.

      These

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1