Roger Singer

Travelers
 
stepping out
of a fog,
the air was
full,
I felt the road
differently
while
walking between
seasons
under jeweled
clouds
as shade
spread wide
over the face
of still waters,
brushing
familiar breezes
through the
hair of travelers

Dr. Singer is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Old Lyme, Connecticut, and past president of the Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,250 poems published on the Internet, magazines, and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. Some of the magazines that have accepted his poems for publication are: Walt’s Corner, Westward Quarterly, Jerry Jazz, SP Quill, Avocet, Underground Voices, Outlaw Poetry, Literary Fever, Dance of My Hands, Language & Culture, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Stray Branch, Toasted Cheese, Tipton Poetry Journal, Indigo Rising Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Fullosia Press, Orbis, Penwood Review, and Subtle Tea. He is the recipient of the Ambassador Poetry Award from the Massachusetts State Poetry Society, the 2019 Louisiana State Poetry Society Award, and the 2020 Arizona State Poetry Society Award. He was included in Mad Swirl Anthology in 2018 and 2019.