Kirjahaku

A fifth book of poetry by Laurel Highlands Author William C Semo. This time his focus is on the Loyalhanna Creek and the gorge that he grew up in, fishing and dreaming, learning what it was of his family's history and the history of the Laurel Highlands and America itself. Each of these poems is a rockfall reflection of memories building up into the rapids of verse as only he can put it.

A Sixth book of poetry by Laurel Highlands Author William C Semo. A book of the poems of the Alpha Wolf, his poems and his parables.

A fourth book of poetry by Laurel Highlands Poet William C Semo. The red book.

Growing up in the Laurel Highlands there is no shortage of inspiration to be found. A great country music songwriter once told me when he found my notebooks of poems that when you walk the trail long enough, the words just come naturally. I used to sit on the shores of Lake Erie and in the Laurel Highlands and carry these small notebooks with me. Sometimes they became so worn and torn and covered in moss that they themselves took on their own quality and their own feeling. Some were covered in sand from Lake Erie, others in moss and cool waters from Lynn Run State Park. Some were held in history like Fort Ligonier, where I spent my childhood.

Valerie, a third book of poetry by Laurel Highlands Author and Poet William C Semo. When you ask what inspires poetry, it is the friendships of one's life. In this book a dedication of poetry to an old friend who recently passed, one who stood by him and believed in him through his many life struggles. Their friendship, unconditional, always pure and spiritual with a sweet ""I love you."" in parting with one another. ""It is the kind of poetry she liked, the kind she would read. Whether I would hand it to her or just leave it at her doorstep. The kind that I carry with me in my moleskins and whose meaning carries with us all into the hereafter. It is about her and many other things because the heart is all that matters in the end."" -William C Semo

First edition The son of a Merchant Marine with a love for the sea, William Semo, born in Somerset Pennsylvania in 1978 in the Laurel Highlands, grew up in the towns of Ligonier and Youngstown Pennsylvania surrounded by lush forests with the vast changing New England seasons. A land surrounded with a rich history of the French/Indian War as well as the Revolutionary War, he drew inspiration from growing up around these lands and people from the highest mountains to the sandiest shores, the scholar to the plowman.