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Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian. The Smithsonian selected her photo to represent all teens from a specific decade. Stanislavsky's Unit Oxygen tubes tickled tiny hairs in my nostrils. Monitored leads left doodle lines on the overhead scope. I stared at circular tracks in the ceiling thinking they looked like HO scale train rails, only upside down. Life doesn't flash through the mind while irregular beats blip on rhythm strips; soap-opera scene starring me is what my brain believed. ©1988 The Writer, Inc. Reprinted Dec. 2017 Whispers Flight We ran together in an open field feeling a forceful wind. You, my colorful playmate pretended companionship. But when the string snapped you soared away. ©1989 The Christian Science Monitor reprinted 2012 Intentional Walk Humility Sickness neither enforces one's faith nor surprises the body with any show of special inner strength. Sickness is a painful, inconvenient, frightening, source of anger and self- pity. Philosophers... be damned! I'd rather have health. ©1989 Green’s Educational Pub. phi beta kappa: 14K standard A small shiny rectangle
made of gold wasn't just a charm dangling from a link chain. Touching a woman's neck, jewelry on a man's vest, its Greek letters quietly signified academic achievement and gave the wearer self-esteem. Currently confidence and originality for a select group comes from slivers of gold piercing body parts. ©1999 Bibliophile Pub. Co. Reprinted 2017 Indiana Voice
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