Poems for the Twilight

By Robert E. Watson

Poems for the Twilight is a book of forty poems by Robert E. Watson. They range from grief as in At a Brothers Coffin (which asks, To what new friends and what strange place / And where in the circling, infinite void of space / Has gone that light which made him feel / Lifes joy and pain and loves appeal? ) to anger as in Point of Order (which asks after the death of a friend and his family in a car accident, Who was it brought about / This obscene transformation / After so many afflictions? / Was it the Universe Man / With his contract in his pocket?/ Or was it moldering nature, / Dragging its corrupted foot and reaching out with decomposing fingers / For the closest throat? With dead eyes / It sees no distinction between the cockroach / And the bleating lamb torn by salivating jaws). Yes, this book is contemplation in a mystic world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524553951

Robert E. Watson

Robert Watson was born in West Baltimore in 1940. He attended the University of Maryland, earning a BA degree in 1964. His love of poetry blossomed, and many of his early poems were written during this time. In 1965 he became associate editor and in 1970 editor and general manager of the Central Maryland News, later the Howard County News. He won nine awards for excellence in journalism from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including five first-place awards. He earned a master of arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in its exclusive Writing Seminars Masters Program in 1971. He founded Howard Cable Television Associates Inc., which was awarded the cable franchise for the Howard County. A lover of performing arts, he founded the Columbia Arts Council in the early 1970s. He entered the University of Baltimore Law School in 1976, graduating in l978, and moved to Garrett County, where he opened a law practice and married his lovely wife, Rita. They have three children. A noted landscape photographer, he started Pictures Limited, a company organized to market and sell his framed Cibachrome photographs, which were displayed and sold in galleries throughout Maryland. He was elected president of the GC Bar Association, and during his thirty-seven-year practice, he represented the city of Oakland, the Garrett County Sheriff’s Department and the Garrett County Board of Education. In 2009, he received an award for obtaining a BV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is “the highest rating a lawyer can achieve after admission to the bar, indicating very high legal ability and ethical standards.” The rating is based solely on peer input. He also served as representative of the sailing fleet of the Baltimore Yacht Club Board and is a licensed single-engine pilot and a certified open-water scuba diver.

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POEM SEQUENCE

1. POINT OF ORDER

2. LET ME TELL YOU OF A SYMPHONY

3. AT A BROTHER’S COFFIN

4. AUTUMN TREE

5. I WENT TODAY

6. FOR JACK LARRIMORE

7. CHRISTMAS

8. VEGETABLE WILL

9. EVENING WORDS

10. MYSTIC VISTA

11. FOR RITA

12. REGARDING THE WIND

13. OLD WALLS

14. TURN INWARD

15. ONCE UPON A TIME

16. DAY DREAM

17. LANDSCAPE

18. ENDISHNESS

19. INSIDE OF A PIANO

20. DAY OF OUR LORD

21. COMIC GRIP

22. METAMORPHOSIS

23. MODERNS

24. IN THE HARD, HARD DAY

25. PAPER SAYS

26. SELDOM DREAM

27. SOMETHING FLESH

28. TO A FRIEND AT CHRISTMAS

29. BANNERS OF NEWTON

30. SONG FOR TRUMPETS

31. TO ONE JUST NOW KNOWN

32. SWEET WORDS

33. THE SPIRAL

34. MANAGEMENT

35. WITH WORDS

36. LIGHT

37. TODAY

38. WHEN I THINK OF NIGHT

39. YELLOWSPACE

40. PETRUSHKA

This book is

dedicated to my wonderful wife Rita without whose help it could never have been published.

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On July 24, 1998, Robert’s love of poetry was shared with a packed-house audience when he presented at Our Town Theatre, in Oakland, Maryland, a one-man show entitled The Land of Poets’ Pride in which he recited from memory dozens of the world’s greatest poems and writings along with his impersonations of the great comedian W.C. Fields. The works ranged from Yeats’ poem The Tower to Poe’s The Raven to Dylan Thomas’ Fern Hill to Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve. Among the many others were several of his own poems including At A Brother’s Coffin.

POINT OF ORDER

(In contemplation of the death of friend Paul Frantz and his

sister and the terrible injury of his father and brother in an automobile accident)

Who was it brought about

This obscene transformation

After so many afflictions?

Was it the Universe Man,

With His contract in His pocket?

What obscure purpose

Could have caused Him to careen the truck?

Did He see the fetid snow?

Hear the children alone in the dark?

Perhaps,