Barbara Pierce Lyon

Dear Barbara, this is the year you were lucky to miss, although I know you would have found a way to creatively cope with it, and to also make the most of a very very bad situation. I still talk about you to many of my friends. Your exuberance still inspires and to that effect I have been using the wood blocks gifted to me by your Daughter to emboss some of my pottery. With every bowl plate and such I whisper hellos to you and I hope you hear me...
Forever missed
Bruce Cates

When I first met Barbra at my "Open Mic at the Essanay Cafe" in old Niles, I was dazzled by her unmistakable smile and her wonderful spoken word, and poetry. She always stole the show, so refined was her talent. She came often and I soon grew to love her like so many others. When I found that she was artist of many mediums, our shared experiences brought forth some wonderful discussions about painting, sculpture, dance, ceramics, acting, and yes music, all of which we found commonality. My...

May your new life be as filled with love, laughter and joy as this one surely was.

Barbara had the spirit of thinking more about

others than herself. She had a special energy

and warmth, kindness.

I had the great privilege of attending some yoga classes that Barbara Lyon taught through the Fremont Adult School. She was a wonderful teacher, so kind & loving.
Our loss is Heaven's gain.

Barbara was our Creative Writing classmate at Fremont City Senior Center. In 2015, Barbara won a place in the Honorable Mentions of Passager Book's annual Poetry Contest. In the Passager journal, she wrote: I write poetry mainly to put in words the pain and pleasure of being human, responding to what is around me, what is happening to my loved ones, the world. Poetry, painting and dance are my special tools for learning and healing. Now poetry has come forward as my first choice. What...

To Barbara

The woman spins
skirt flares as she turns
dips head
extends hand to me
and I
rise
release breath
grasp palm of
artist singer dancer poet
friend

We dance life.

Will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile and spirit.