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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
Hi Theatre’s eighth annual “Poetry Coffeehouse” is scheduled for Saturday, February 10. This unique event offers poets and lovers of poetry an opportunity to come together in a cafe-type setting to read and to listen to poems written by local poets and others.
The roster of featured poets includes three poets of note in the community: Rabbi Carla Theodore of Slate Mills—a published poet and community activist; Joy Lorien—a popular “Rappnet” poet and photographer from Jewell Hollow in nearby Luray; and Donna Le Pre—a wellknown environmentalist and poet from Little Washington. Joining the group for the first time is Ray Holland of Chester Gap, a talented writer and poet who is a retired air traffic controller. In addition to the featured performers, theatre-goers are encouraged to bring and read favorite poems of their own choosing in an “Open Mike.” There also may be a surprise poet, lb encourage student participation in this program, the admission charge for students 18 and under has been reduced by two-thirds.
Poetry at times may seem hard to understand, but poetry, in the words of poet laureate Robert Frost, often finds “just the right thought and then the thought finds the words,” offering in the most elegant of verse better ways to express love, anguish, and hope. An example of this truth is reflected in a short stanza of a recent poem written by one of the featured readers, Ray Holland:
Cerebral love, the mating of the minds,
that subtle passion one so rarely finds.
Beyond the innate frailty of the flesh,
the cogs of understanding turn and mesh.
Another example of poetry’s possibilities is reflected in a poem by Joy Lorien where she expresses her love of nature in these few lines about “an awesome mushroom fungi” in the Shenandoah National Park.”
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