Find inspiration for our hectic times in these straight-forward poems for happy and sad days.
Find history, warmth and a touch of the paranormal in three stories.
Getting the Goat peeks into the early 1900's when mountain life was tough. Does Mama's advice hold true today?
In Stitches in Love Rose's deep love for her grandmother motivates others to share their gifts. Does Rose reap her reward?
Robert Horner is tempted in The Stranger, but does he succumb to the lure?
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Poetry Excerpts
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Matthew 7: 7
Hope
There comes a day
when only dark clouds
light our way
and rain's
ceaseless drops of blue
disguise the path
we thought we knew.
We cry
into our rooms of black
and only silence
answers back
We listen
for a voice to care
and all we hear
is no one there.
Hope is lost
in deep, deep despair.
But wait.
Say a prayer.
God is there.
Country Spring
For a peek at Heaven
God gave us a country spring,
where soft winds dance on open fields
and gently caress golden daffodils,
nodding, nodding, nodding...
they seem to say,
"Welcome, bright new day."
Gentle drops of morning dew
kiss the roses and honeysuckle too.
Each sweet bloom
has its own perfume.
Yellow bells mark the way
for radiant colors bursting
into each new day.
The rhodendron pink, or
fair lilies white.
It's all nature's delight.
Originally published in Best New Poets of 1988, The American Poetry Association, Santa Cruz, Ca., ed. Robert Nelson copyrighted 1989 with rights reserved by individual poets
Short Story Excerpt
From "Getting the Goat"
A historical story from the early 1900's
Norman shot out of the house down the rocky cliff past the leafy hardwoods to the creek to graze the goat. She bleated and lunged forward, jerking the rope tied around her neck at one end and to the oak tree at the other. He untied her and grasped the sisel hemp cord to lead her to a grassy place to eat. The white monster butted him in the rear and sent him tumbling over boulders and underbrush.
What was wrong with this animal? Why did Father think he could handle her? His heart pounded as he stood. He raced after the unruly creature, blood flowing from a cut on his leg. She ran in a circle, Norman panting until she halted and let him clutch the leash hanging by her side.
He led her to the tree, secured her, and brushed off his hands. Anger at the goat for her meanness festered inside him, but the ire in the boy who wanted to be a man boiled over because she'd gotten the better of him.
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