Streams of Poetry, by Carol Parman, is now available on Amazon Kindle. The book consists of 150 years worth of poetry and prose from Worth County writers. The book is over 600 pages. Here is one of many poems; this one is by George T. Wray, otherwise known as the Grand River Poet. He was a prolific poet who wrote for the Times-Tribune in the 1930's. Here is one of his signature poems:
Grand River
Where North meets South and East meets West
Where opportunities are the best
Where grows the stately Elm and Oak
Where promises are seldom broke
Where waving corn gives plenteous yield
And golden wheat adorns the field
There through that rich and fertile land
Flows gently on the River Grand.
Where wild birds sing their merry song
Where swan and wild geese pass along
Where honeysuckles grace its shores
And high above the wild hawk soars
Where daisies white and violets blue
And Sweet Williams bloom for you.
Where Bob White calls at break of day
The old Grand River wends its way.
I've seen it in the moonlight gleam
A gentle, rippling silent stream
Forever flowing gently down
Through growing fields and sleeping town
With snake-like course across the land
That leads to Mississippi sand
And forms the fishes waterway
From Mexico to Io-way.
The deer and bison that have drank
From you and loitered on your bank
And moccasins that Redman wore
Are seen within your vale no more
As silently you onward flow
And tirelessly your vigil keep
Through ages, for the ones who sleep.
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