Dolores Mahan Albia, Iowa

I have a twelfth grade education. I completed a practical nurse's course in September, 1952. It was in Denver, CO. I got interested in poetry when I was 17 years old. Some of my poetry was on the bulletin board of my high school of Doniphan, MO. I quit after I married and got interested again after my husbands death in 1975. I also wrote some songs.

A Bird's Happiness A cherry hello to you So the bird said to me I asked him why he was happy As he was sitting in a tree I looked at him in the tree And wondered what he was doing Then he said that he saw a worm And it was what he was pursuing So we should take lessons From the bird in the tree Ashe was getting ready to build a nest As he had use to be Then he returned to his nest As happy as could be He sang and sang As he was in the tree.

All poems Copyright © 1997 Dolores Mahan. All rights reserved.