LOIS GREENE STONE - POEMS

​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