Reading a book of poetry is like looking for Easter eggs.
You can look in several places, without a reward, and then find a golden egg under the third bush. In a poetry book, that egg is the poem that truly speaks to your heart. I pray you take the time to work your way through the pages, and maybe that gem is in this collection of poems.
-- from the Foreword
The Poems
I. To Wake Or Venture Out
- The Eyes With Which It's Greeted
- The Graduation Dilemma
- Just Another Day
- The Fork In The Road
- Foundation
- Omaha Beach
- Venezia
- One Morning, In A Small Plane Over New Zealand
- A Different Kind Of Morning
- Never A New Day
II. To Endure Or Persist
- Unsung Song
- One Day At The Ice Rink
- Candles In Thin Air
- Talking To Myself
- In The Riderwood Elementary Gymnasium
- The Father Of A Boy With Seizures
- Drowning Together
- 31 Cents
- The Heart's Condition
- Exposed
- My Boat
- That Summer (1971)
- My Turn
- Between
- Ortygia
III. To Wonder Or To Hope
- Elusive
- When Do We Visit The Queen's Garden
- Despite What You May Think
- The Snowflakes Of Last Night
- Do I Cling
- When We Don't Know
- In My Garden Of Faith
- My Mother's Recollections
- Why
- On A Son's Birthday
- Remedy For The Evening News
- Why Now?
IV. To Relinquish Or To Lament
- The Season Is The Season
- A Red Leaf In April
- Wisdom
- A Cold Stone
- Her Beautiful Defiance
- Your Whisper To Me
- The Debris
- Futile
- To Die Like Autumn
- Truly
- A Poem Too Late
- Doubt
- To Dan
- The Landscaper
- Prayer
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