Poetry
Collected from 1973-1999
(Click here for collection after 1/1/2000)
thoughts are
airy phrases that
fill the void
between yesterday and tomorrow --
poetry defines them.
-- Dale Neibaur
High School (1971-1974)
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Steven Argyle
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Shara Dawn Avery
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Janice Neibaur Day
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Dale Neibaur
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Barbara Thomas
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Others
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College, Mission & Beyond (1974-1999)
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Steven Argyle
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Dale Neibaur
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Other / Unknown
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I was about 15 when I was first inspired to try my hand at poetry. It was a summer evening, and I was sitting at church with most of my neighborhood peers. Beside me was a girl whose attention I desperately wished to attract, but her interest was clearly on the lad seated on her opposite side. I recall that he was a dark-haired well-formed young man a few years my senior. While she watched with wide eyes and eager encouraging noises, he doodled patterns of words on a sheet of paper. "Hey!" I thought, "I could do that!"
It's been over 30 years, and not one of my poems has ever elicited from the fairer sex the effect that young man called forth so effortlessly. Perhaps he was the better poet, after all.