Poetry Society of Vermont Mountain Troubadour Index 1947-2021 Anderson, Ina “Border” 2021 “Hardknott” 2021 “Magpie” 2015 “Stan” 2013 “Penguins” 2014 “The Poacher” 2016 “The Pull-down Menu of Dreams” 2015 “While Harvesting Ramps in Vermont” 2021 Andrews, Miriam “Cat” Spring, 1991 Angerman, Marcia “A Biblical Prophecy” 2019 “A Jigsaw Puzzle” 2017 “A Life” 2016 “An Ode to Mr. Rogers” 2019 “Don’t Tell Me It’s Over” 2021 “Gleaning” 2015 Anstatt, Angela C. “Decision” Spring, 1992 “Dream” Spring, 1993 ` “Drought in St. Barth’s” Spring, 1993 “Loss” Spring, 1992 “Winter Solstice—Shortest Day” Spring, 1994 Asen, Barbara “Descending Certainty” Fall, 2004 Audette, Mary Margaret “And I” Fall, 1983 “Autumn Tryst” Fall, 1987 “Behold the Cat” Spring, 1976 “The Child Is Father of the Man” Spring, 1983 “How Neat” Spring, 1979 “Mother of Mother” Spring, 1987 “My Mandrill” Spring, 1984 “Night Thoughts in Fall” Fall, 1993 “Of Tony” Fall, 1985 “Perspective” Spring, 1988 “Sweet Surrender” Spring, 1990 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 2 “Whip-Poor-Will” Spring, 1996 “White Lilac” Fall, 1996 Austin, Ruth “Let Us Listen” Fall, 1971 Averyt, Anne C. “Untitled” Spring, 1992 Ayer, John D. “Wingcraft” Spring, 1990 Baldwin, Mary Newton “Cattle Bells of Spain” Spring, 1976 “Footnote To A Divorce” Spring, 1967 “For One Born Under A Dark Star” Spring, 1977 “How in Kingdom Come” Spring, 1976 “Lonely Are The Fields Of Sleep” Fall, 1960 “Memory Is A Dry Leaf Burning” Spring, 1967 “Minor Key” Spring, 1968 “My Unyielding Heart” Spring, 1978 “Note To The New Owners” Spring, 1962 “Nursery School Child” Fall, 1972 “One Mile Is Two” Fall, 2001 “On Planting a Young Maple” September, 1948 “Political Candidates” Fall, 1972 “Sleep Song Under a Hemlock Tree” Fall, 1964 “Smoky Mountain Tune” Spring, 1966 “Snow Weary” Spring, 1964 “The Timeless Dream” Spring, 1969 “Today Is A Poem” Spring, 1978 Ballantyne, Charles “Graduation” Spring, 1983 Barker, Edna “Child Of The World” Fall, 1960 “Exiles: Radio City Plaza” Spring, 1962 “Mountain Vision: For Helen Keller: Spring, 1958 “On Seeing Julius Caesar On The Screen” Spring, 1958 Barry, J. Richard “Letter To Melissa” Spring, 1973 “The Widow’s Place” Fall, 1974 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 3 Barrueto, Meredith “Blow Gently, Wind Spring, 1979 Bashaw, Arwin Fletcher “Shepherdess To A Ploughboy” October, 1959 Bauchner, Susan K. “A Love Poem” 2009 “Autumn” 2012 “Blessing” 2008 “In Praise of the Common Cold” 2015 “January in Florida” 2012 “Lonely” 2015 “My To-Do List” 2021 “Reunion” 2006 “Spring Cleaning” 2011 “To-Do List” 2007 “Woman at the Bridge” 2013 Beggs, De Motte Mabel “Dream” Fall, 1988 “Holy Land” Spring, 1988 “New Mexico” Spring, 1987 Belding, Janet W. “Music” Spring, 1975 “Sorcery” Spring, 1973 Belding, Patricia W. “Adrift” Fall, 1999 “A Housewife in Winter” Spring, 1986 “Advice To A Young Poet” Fall, 1988 “The Air Alive” Spring, 1974 “Anemia” Spring, 1977 “An Ocean Turning Blue” 2010 “April in Groton Forest” Spring, 1994 “April Lode” 2013 “April 29” 2009 “A Swan In The Sky” Fall, 1965 “As A Spirit Free” Fall, 1973 “At The Shore” Spring, 1994 “August Yield” Spring, 2000 “Autumn Embers” Spring, 1967 “Backtracking” Spring, 1984 “Bare Facts” Fall, 1968 “Beachbound” Fall, 1994 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 4 “Beneath The Drifts” Fall, 1991 “Berry-blue And Sky-blue Pink” Fall, 1997 “Blue Coronas” Fall, 1996 “Bifocals” Spring, 1975 “Black Bird” Fall, 1974 “Bookstore” Fall, 1985 “Borderline” Fall, 1981 “The Boston Bankers” Spring, 1974 “Boston Common” Spring, 1980 “Braided Sunlight” Spring, 1995 “Bravissimo!” Spring, 1975 “Bribery” Fall, 1999 “Breaking Free” 2009 “Cardinal” Spring, 2001 “Castaway” Spring, 1971 “Certainties” Spring, 1987 “Change of Pace” Fall, 1999 “China Doll” Spring, 1983 “Circles and Squares” Spring, 1973 “Coffee Table Talk” Fall, 1966 “Coffee With Emily Dickinson” Fall, 1986 “Conversation” Spring, 1972 “Country Chill” Spring, 1970 “Country Guest” Fall, 1988 “Cycle of Red” Spring, 1996 “Daytime Moon” Spring, 1995 “December Haikus” Fall, 1974 “December 7th, 1991” Spring, 1992 “Desire for Diamonds” Fall, 1984 “Doubt” 2014 “Ember Day” Fall, 1979 “End of Trail” Fall, 2001 “Epiphany” Spring, 2003 “Evening Log” Fall, 1989 “February Thaw” Spring, 1992 “The Final Line” “Fireplace Gold and Hunter’s Moon” Spring, 1987 “For Pace” Spring, 1992 “For The Sake of Summer” Spring, 1997 “Four Leaf Clover” Spring, 2001 “Free Verse” Fall, 1967 “Gatherings” Spring, 1985 “Geranium Wine” Fall, 2002 “The Glass Forest” Spring, 1989 “The Gold Is There” Spring, 1982 “Greening” Spring, 1998 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 5 “Green Tunnel” Fall, 1969 “Hands Across the Hearth” Fall, 1990 “Heartbeat and Hand” Spring, 1980 “Hill Road” Spring, 1986 “Holt’s Ledge” Fall, 1996 “Housewife in Winter” Fall, 1987 “Ice Lock” Fall, 1987 “Illusions” Fall, 1998 “Inclinations” Fall, 1983 “Indian Summer Days” Fall, 1988 “Inheritance” Spring, 1987 “Initials” Fall, 1971 “Inspiration” Spring, 1985 “The Iris Garden” Spring, 1989 “I, Too, Miss Haversham” Spring, 1992 “Keepsakes” Fall, 1972 “Key Word” “Spring, 1984” “Lampyridae” Fall, 1997 “Legacy of Words” Fall, 2000 “The Letting Go” Fall, 1969 “Love’s Metrodome” Spring, 1976 “Maple Gold” Spring, 2004 “March Light” Fall, 1998 “May Prayer” Spring, 2002 “May 30th” Spring, 2000 “Moonlit Fields of Autumn” Spring, 1998 “Mountains To The Sea” Spring, 1990, Reprinted Fall, 1990 “Mutineer In Winter” Fall, 2001 “November Recall” Fall, 2000 “October Windfall” Fall, 1987 “Octogenarian” Spring, 1965 “Of Shade and Sun” Spring, 1993 “One Mile Is Two” Fall, 2001 “One More Late August” Spring, 1981 “One Spark” 2014 “Onlooker” Spring, 2002 “Open Sea” Fall, 1982 “The Pinwheel” Spring, 2005 “Pressing” Spring, 1976 “Promise” Spring, 2000 “Rainbows Of The Night” Fall, 1996 “Reflections” Spring, 1983 “Scarves of Comfort” Spring, 1986 “The Second Pail” Spring, 1981 “Secret Deeps and Easy Shallows” Spring, 1978 “Set of Seed” Spring, 1984 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 6 “The Shallow Sea” Spring, 1991 “Silhouette” Fall, 1968 “Skipping Years” Fall, 1974 “Sky Views” Fall, 1992 “Sky Watch” Fall, 2003 “Spring” Spring, 1991 Reprinted Spring, 2004 “The Spinning Down” 2013 “Spun Gold” Fall, 1980 “Sugar-On-Snow Children” Spring, 1973 “Take Heart, My Love” Spring, 1972 “Tensions of Time” Fall, 1978 “They Used to Capture Flowers” Fall, 2004 “This is the Day” 2012 “Tick, Tick, Tick” Fall, 1998 “Tide Pool” 2006 “Tiger Mother in Progress” Spring, 2003 “Tomatoes” 2006 “Trillium Trail” Spring, 1990 “Two A.M.” Spring, 1972 “Vermont Adage” Spring, 1965 “Vermont Reckoning” Fall, 2002 “Vermont Town Meeting” Spring, 1988 “Vermont Vernacular” Spring, 1996 “The Warming Time” Spring, 1982 “Warning: Star Clear Nights” Spring, 1988 “Washday” Fall, 1997 “The Weight of Keys” Spring, 1993 “Wellspring” Spring, 2004 “Wampum From The Sea” Fall, 1997 “Wild Strawberries” Spring, 1979 “Winter Harvest” Spring, 1988 “Winter Tenant” Fall, 2002 “Woodlands of the Night” Spring, 1982 “Wood-notes” Spring, 1984 “Words’ Worth” Spring, 1972 Bellucci, Frances “A Man and a Woman” Spring, 1984 “Explanation” Fall, 1981 Bemise, Linda B. “The First Ten Years” Spring, 1979 Bendixsen, Barbara W. “Legacy” Spring, 1986 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 7 “Mecca” Spring, 1988 “Night Thought” Spring, 1987 Benton, Dorothy “Foiled” Spring, 1964 “For Better or Verse” Fall, 1966 “Resquiescat In Pace” Spring, 1961 “Reunion” Spring, 1967 “The Tender Years” Fall, 1964 Benton, James “Colaptes Auratus” Spring, 1991 Bernatchez, David “A Later Flower” Fall, 1995 “The Asters” Fall, 1991 “A Winter’s Night Backward Look” Fall, 1990 “Barberries” Spring, 2003 “Echinocystis Lobata” Spring, 1997 “Flower In Snow” Spring, 1999 “Forest Skylight” Fall, 2000 “Ghost from Summer” Spring, 2002 “Hilltop Revery of Summer” Spring, 1993 “Late-Stayers” Spring, 2000 “Morning Light on Maple Leaves” Fall, 2004 “Natural Shelter” Fall, 1993 “One of Nature’s Illusions” Spring, 1992 “Traveler’s Joy” Spring, 2000 “Rescue of an Insect” Spring, 1996 “Silver Leaf” Spring, 2004 “Solitary Joy” Spring, 2001 Reprinted in Fall, 2002 “Song of the Silken Trails” Spring, 1988 “The Stinging Mite” Spring, 1994 “Sunset on the Gulf” Spring, 1991 “Weed Beauty in Vacant Lots” Spring, 2005 “Wintercress” Fall, 2002 Berteau, Yvonne “La Rose” Spring, 1971 Biggs, Lucy Wells “After the Separation” Fall, 1983 “April Hour” Spring, 1968 “A Tree Is For” Spring, 1982 “Beauty, Wind-Created” Fall, 1962 Created by the Poetry Society of Vermont; made available by the Vermont Historical Society Mountain Troubadour Index, 1947 to 2021 8 Reprinted Spring, 1985 “Concerning Nostalgia” Fall, 1979 “The Counting” Spring, 1972 “Grapes on the Vine” Spring, 1980 “Man and the Soul” Spring, 1973 “Miss Flora’s Panacea” Spring, 1971 “It’s Spring, It’s Spring!” Spring, 1973 “Missing In Action” Spring, 1985 “No Need For Words” Fall, 1964 “Not Otherwise Than This” Fall, 1974 “Remembering a Brother” Spring, 1983 “Still Love Endures” Fall, 1974 “Prayer Of A Homemaker” 1963 “Seize The Moment”