Apr 30, 2026 | REFLECTIONS
Strings Starlight on a guitar on the last road winding toward nirvana, each string fingered by the music of the sky living inside, and glimmering past all midnights. Darrell Lindsey, Nacogdoches Here and There and Gone Here and there and gone like a firefly on a...
Feb 25, 2026 | REFLECTIONS
This Stream This stream dreaming of the bottomless light found in the eyes of poets who sip sangria and dance for hours on a firefly evening. This stream dreaming, too, of a mountain melody moving toward the tall man who carries sunflower seeds in his overalls and...
Dec 29, 2025 | REFLECTIONS
A Collection of Heartfelt Words From East Texas Writers Bearing All Things By Carol Thompson You missed the blooming of the gardenia. After all the potting and tending, you left too soon to see. You missed my lonesome listening to those songs, my spirit still, unable...
Aug 27, 2025 | REFLECTIONS
He watched a love that proved untrue from a window up above and couldn’t walk through this world without Luke the Drifter’s shoes He took us on The Grand Tour gave wine colored roses away and little tears still come from He Stopped Loving Her Today Oh as I...
May 2, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, REFLECTIONS
May Forgiveness Still Be a Rose Love letters you wrote me were taken in vain now I hear the echoes of your sweet name strange feelings surround me since you went away and empty hours fill up my days I hear a church bell ringing down the road and my heart’s...
Feb 26, 2025 | ARTS + CULTURE, REFLECTIONS
Lexie Dean Robertson was a teacher and poet. She was born in Lindale, Texas, on July 25, 1893, the daughter of Alexander Green and Lena (Ansley) Dean. Her parents were both teachers. She grew up in Canton and married J. F. Robertson on August 16, 1911, while both were...
