Below are three poems and photographs from Sarasota: A Tribute in Verse and Vision, read by author Jack Veeger.
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Sunday Blues
Life hurts. Please let me sing the blues
So you will know that I bear you no grudge
The blues they ease the pains, the overdues
Perhaps they'll prompt the needed nudge
To right life's arbitrariness in dole
Too much of comfort there too little here
So there is aching in the shorted soul
Please listen to my blues. It's only fair
The church doors stood ajar
So I felt free to enter and to join in pleas
For full egality – a concept from afar
In granting I shall read regret for past inequities
Of Glass and Gloss
With aid of sun and sky
The Ritz ran smack into the panels
Of an immobile glass-clad edifice
Across the Trail
And there it stuck
A flattened image
As if enforced upon retentive glass
In sharp and shimmering colors
And smacking of kaleidoscopes and opulence
All luminosity and loveliness
And yet no more than passing gloss
Our Sun is a Mild and Golden Sun
The sun is mild and golden on our path
Pure luster scattered by a copious hand
No prejudice, no bias and most certainly no wrath
Enfold us, sun, and let us consummate your grant
