The Trampleasure family invites you to the first annual Bill Trampleasure Memorial Poetry reading: November 10, 2013, 2:45 – 4:15 Community Room, Main Branch Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kitteredge St. Bring your own poem, read your favorite of Bill’s poems, or just listen… If you are a member of Facebook, you can see the event … First annual Bill Trampleasure Memorial Poetry Reading
Here is a video that captures much of the 11 November 2012 memorial service (the tape ended before we did, but most of the service is here). The initial and concluding poems are in Bill’s own voice, recorded around 2008.
Our community memorial service for Bill will be held on Sunday, December 2, at 1:30 PM, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. No RSVP is necessary, but if you are a member of Facebook, you can RSVP for the event here. View Larger Map
I have finally scanned Bill’s book in as a PDF. A few of the pages are missing (November 2012), but I hope to find them soon. Download it here.
There is mystery in life And the myth trees that we grow can go only so far to set our dark aglow but the candle born in me and the candle born in you may be just the touches needed to torch some pilgrim’s view go and glow, touch and torch there is mystery in … There is mystery in life
I am Bill I am growing I love you all, that I’m knowing and beyond that there is mystery and hope you are each quite like me yet very differently with your own special ways to grow and grope So I’ll try again, my friends, to watch my mouth, my means and ends, as we … I am Bill…
I retired April 1st [1990]. For years I planned to begin retirement with a walking bridge between the world of work and a world beyond work. I would push a mail cart from San Francisco to the United Nations in support of peace and the U.N., from April 25 to October 24. But on April … Retirement and Unretirement (An April 1st Tale) 1990
Many of us love the poetry of Bill Trampleasure. This website presents many of them, and will include more over time. The site is maintained by Bill’s son Lee. To see a complete list of poems, visit the Table of Contents page.