Journey Home
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A Tale of Two Trees Two massive oak trees side by side Grow leaves for years; Dropped tiny acorns In the front yard. Then came the spring when one was bare; Killed by disease. Only one left To bring new leaves The roots of both trees overlap Making it hard To see where one Starts and one ends. The First one’s gone; The younger knows Her time is next
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About the Book
Journey Home is a series of poems reflecting farm life in the 1950-60's before many practices vanished with technological changes. Having a keen eye for detail, the author describes the typical layout of a farm as well as the chores and customs of the era. As you cherish the unforgettable characters, you will experience universal feelings of joy, sadness, hope, and humor. The love of family, farm animals and the, land is central and captured in the various topics. Revisiting the farm is a trip into nostalgia when the farm produced most of family's food and neighbors depended upon each other for hog-killing, quilting, fires and' sickness. Several vintage photos enhance the book.
About the Author
The author is a graduate of East Carolina University and retired from the Department of Health and Human Services of North Carolina. She has been writing poetry since the first grade in Roxboro, NC. Many of her inspirations come from growing up on a tobacco farm in Person County. Now living in Laurinburg, NC, she’s a member of the NC Poetry Society. She has received honorable mention from the Fields of Earth Symposium of the Writers’s Ink Guild of Fayetteville. She wrote, The Rocking Chair, a column published in The Lumberton Post in 1977-78. She was published in the Phoenix, a literary magazine of Scotland High School, and in Leaves of Green: The Collard Poems sponsored by the Ayden Collard Festival. Her poems were included in Summer Carpenters, a poetry booklet compiled from a creative writing class taught by Ron Bayes and Grace Gibson, at Pembroke University. She is the author of A Charge to Keep: The History of Caledonia United Methodist Church, which was awarded Special Recognition in the History Book Award by the North Carolina Society of Historians. One of her poems has recently been published in Gravity Hill, a literary magazine of St. Andrews College. She is the proud mother of two grown sons and one grandson. She has a coon hound dog and two cats. When she is not writing, she enjoys photography, reading, traveling and crafts.