Poetry Writing - Discover February

by Shawn February 01 Adirondack Nature Outdoors Activity Fun

When is the last time you wrote a poem just for fun? Go outside, listen, feel, smell, and then write it down. This one is about February.

Gay lucidity,

Not yet sunshine, in the air;

Tingling secrets hidden everywhere,

Each at watch for each;

Sap within the hillside beech,

Not a leaf to see.

by Michael Field

‘Michael Field’ was actually not one poet, but two – neither of whom was male (or called Michael): the name was the pseudonym used by Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and her niece Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913)

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Shawn

Shawn is a second generation Adirondackee, parent, and now ADK’s active owner. Her parents bought Adirondack Camp in 1979 and she is proud that she is the reason Camp became coed in 1980. Shawn left her international energy consulting gig to join the ADK team full time in 2015. Shawn loves to hear the sounds of laughter rippling across the peninsual in the summer. She is an avid reader, traveler and baker (pumpkin muffins are her favorite). When she is not on the peninsula, Shawn lives in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA with her husband Kevin,their children Zan, Arion and Amy, chocolate lab Moka and their two sweet felines, Olive and Curry.