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About the Book

Ruth met Bob when she was eighteen. They felt their meeting was meant to be. But both of them had a great deal of inner growth to accomplish. After eight years of marriage they divorced. In the next sixteen years they did the work it took to grow - separately. When they remarried, their gratefulness knew no bounds. They knew how very fortunate they were and lived together with a deep appreciation for having a second chance in life. When Bob died twenty years later, Ruth put her grief into the words that are this book.

For me poetry is a spiritual unfolding of the essence of relationships through words.

Below is the title poem of my book of poetry, dedicated to my husband Bob:

Days of Together

We knew days of together

then, humbled away from us

we knew life alone.

As though by no reason

our beings

played a seemingly

magical game,

Our course

designed by the Master

in kindness

and in beauty

is our daily graduation

in eternal search for Truth.

Ruth won the American Pen Women Award for her short story, “Locked Inside,” which she read at the new San Francisco Library.

About the Author

The poet Ruth Rosenthal is a fresh voice for those of us living in the mountains near Yosemite. Retiring here from the Bay Area in California, she brings in her work a most welcome sensitivity, intelligence, and beauty.

Her verses resonate and ring true. She understands the power of simplicity and in her writing there is such a direct focus which reveals how fully she understands that one uses poetic forms in order to go directly to heart and mind and soul.

Ruth Rosenthal loved a man who loved music and was a musician. Now the music of her poetry has become her tribute to him and to the life they shared.