Stanley Watson

Bowling Green, South Carolina, USA

(b) 1/11/37, Evans Mills, NY; (p) Lewis Watson, Lora Potter; (m) Loretta Shawiak, 5/22/65; (s) Marcus, Jody, Jereme, Seth; (ed) Indian River Central, Syracuse, Army Flt. Opns. , State Univ. Potsdam,Gaston College; (occu.) teacher, Freightliner TMP Supervisor, Security, evangelist; (other writ.) evangelistic flyers/articles, A View Toward Gospel Puppetry; (hon.) scholastic/ athletic/poetic -- "Famous Poet for 1996, " Famous Poets Society, for "Grandest Horse"; National Library of Poetry selected "Ah Bluejay" for Sounds of Poetry; International Poetry Hall of Fame, 1/6/97; (pers.) "I focus on the obvious and discover the Spiritual, and hope to publish Along The Path These I See, a collection of illustrated poetry and Scriptural texts."

The Birth Of A Fawn

Rolling green, before me spread.
Entices me to look --
Just beyond the meadow --
Where a fawn is being born.
This lovely creature, made by God,
Will timidly adorn.

Ah Bluejay

Your scanning eye doth ever see
The stalker of the chickadee--
Ah bluejay, in beauty bright,
A watchman of the feeder be --
In raucous cry and clumsy flight,
You warn the little birds to flee
The awful plight that often comes
With stalking dog and stealthy cat--
You're not the villain you're said to be,
Of watchman of the chickadee --
Many grateful little birds
Have your warnings overheard --
The measure of your beauty be
The softest "chip" of chickadee.

The Grandest Horse

If I were a rider with desert to cross,
I would seek the Grandest Horse,
To carry me through the roughest terrain--
The heat in the south, the freeze and the rain --
Through drifts of white ice in treacherous passes,
Perilous cliffs and valley grasses --
Through rattlesnaked canyons and flooded gorge,
Gouged out mesa and tables of stone--
To a land beyond the blues of heaven --
To highest peaks of eternal existence --
To the place of my Friend, my Savior and Lord --
I'd ride up to heaven on the Grandest Horse --
No bridle, no saddle --
His Spirit , of course !