A New Year awaits
Clean and fresh
And brimming with hope.
Already my anticipation ripens
As new beginnings
Appear like green shoots
In the winter-dead remains
Of the year now passing.
Will this be the year
When I finally have the surgery
To lose this excess weight?
Will the promise of the months ahead
Bring an end to the loneliness
That has haunted my life so far?
Will the heartache of 2007
Finally fade and be replaced
By peace in 2008?
My faith,
Sometimes strong,
Sometimes brittle,
Stands firm in its resolve
To meet the dawn of my new day
With joy, and I shout:
Thank you, God, for New Years!
Each person is but a grain of sand resting beside the sea. This thought sets the tone for Jill Eisnaugle’s latest poetry collection, Beside Still Waters.
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
From the author of Jupiter Remembered and Until It’s Time: Embracing Life In Our Later Years comes Petals of Love: Poetry of a Woman’s Soul – a heartfelt collection spanning more than thirty-five years. Through tender reflections, these poems offer g
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