title: Acrostic Poems and Observations
author:  Joseph Macy 
description: Joseph Macy is a self-taught artist whose talent began to surface a few months after his 50th birthday when he began sculpting. Having spent most of his earlier years in the world of business, Joseph abandoned that hectic world and retired to the coastal mountains of Central Oregon. There he hand built a small log cabin, using old pioneer tools and felling his own trees in order to culminate a life long dream. After moving into the cabin, his hands still itched to be doing something and seemingly, by accident, his sculpting began. With an old stump for a sculpting table and the great outdoors for a studio, he began to reproduce an image of Black Belly, an old Cheyenne Warrior. He discovered that he had a here-to-fore unknown talent for sculpting portraits. Suffering a very serious stroke in 2003, his clay sculpting career ended quite abruptly. Unwilling to adjust to a non-artistic life, he began to write, or as he puts it, sculpt with words. To his surprise, sculpting with words is every bit as challenging as sculpting with clay. Joseph was born in historic Oakland, Oregon but was raised in Portland, Oregon. In early 2000, he returned to the area of his birthplace and now resides in Sutherlin, Oregon.
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  # The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  POEMS.
  
  
    
  THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND,
  
  
    
  TO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH.
  
  
    
  ACROSTIC.
  
  
    
  THE EVENING OF LIFE.
  
  
    
  AN ACROSTIC.
  
  
    
  AN ACROSTIC.
  
  
    
  WRITTEN UPON RECEIVING A NEW YEAR'S GIFT.
  
  
    
  LINES
  
  
    
  MY S.S. CLASS.
  
  
    
  FOR MY GRANDSONS, EDDY AND ALLY.
  
  
    
  FOR MY GRAND-DAUGHTERS, M. AND L.—AN ACROSTIC.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  FOR MY FRIEND MRS. R.
  
  
    
  FOR MY NIECE ANGELINE.
  
  
    
  AN ACROSTIC.
  
  
    
  ACROSTIC.
  
  
    
  SHE SLUMBERS STILL.
  
  
    
  TO A FRIEND IN THE CITY,
  
  
    
  REPLY:
  
  
    
  REJOINDER TO THE FOREGOING REPLY.
  
  
    
  TO MY FRIEND MR. J. ELLIS.
  
  
    
  A PASTORAL.
  
  
    
  THE JESSAMINE.
  
  
    
  FOR THE S.S. CONCERT,
  
  
    
  FEED MY LAMBS.
  
  
    
  “GOD IS LOVE.”
  
  
    
  TO MY FRIEND MRS. LLOYD
  
  
    
  ESCAPE OF THE ISRAELITES,
  
  
    
  HYMN,
  
  
    
  MARGARET'S REMEMBRANCE OF LIGHTFOOT.
  
  
    
  “THE CLOU