Meet LOUISE COOK, UTSPS Hospitality Chair

Louise Cook was born, raised, and educated in Evanston, Wyoming. She tells us…the small town atmosphere was wonderfully conducive to freedom in my childhood. I enjoyed good neighbors and a great life. After attending BYU where I received my bachelor's degree in education with a minor in history. I married DeLynn Cook, a rancher out by Flaming Gorge, We had five children, making our home in Sandy, Utah. My husband died in 2010. I stay busy doing church work, family history, gardening, writing poetry, and reading. I have also been writing a book about my grandparents and their children and their ancestors

I am a member of Valley Winds-UTSPS Chapter in Salt Lake City. My daughter Crystie got me started in poetry in 2009 by convincing me to enter the beginners category of UTSPS’s annual contest. I won and found I enjoyed the creativity of writing. I have been hospitality officer for several years along with Marney Zambrano, and last year I helped arrange for the judges for the 2015 Poetry Festival. I think the UTSPS group has wonderful poets who are very nice people!

FLYING WINGS

Isaiah 8:8 And the stretching out of his wings

shall fill the breadth of thy land...

I buy the world at takeoff.

Sun whispers on trees, outlines mountains.

Ground flashes like 16mm film on fast reel.

I smile and laugh as I scrape the heavens.

Freedom! I bank, I glide, I arch

to horizons and beyond, explore glory,

reach zeniths, slice space,

my companions eagles, hawks.

I ponder cloud tops bumpy like oatmeal bubbles,

zip through wisps leaving dew

on my eyelids, kisses from God.

My ear and cheek caressed

by breezes, I soar to bliss.