Observing

and the parts
within

the soul
searching for
escape

the spirit
higher powers
for fair
weather
past here
to somewhere

that’s what
he saw

Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,000 poems published on the internet, magazines, and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.