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    In My Garden: Life in Poetry
    In My Garden: Life in Poetry
    In My Garden: Life in Poetry
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    In My Garden: Life in Poetry

    By Jessie Michaels

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 29, 2021
    ISBN9781543499667
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      In My Garden - Jessie Michaels

      Copyright © 2021 by Jessie Michaels.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 09/28/2021

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      Contents

      In My Garden

      The Struggle

      Mother’s Anguish

      The Glimpse

      Robert J.

      Michael

      The Challenge

      My Daughter’s Leaving

      Your Rooms

      Reflections on September 11th

      Dad

      Shadows of Light

      All The World Is Just A Stage

      Rebirth of Spring

      Winter Into Spring

      Sandals In The Snow

      You Never Knew Me

      I Used To Wonder

      Somewhere in the Stream of Time

      In The Quiet Of The Night Time

      We Once Had A Daughter

      Summer’s Song

      The Sky is Crying

      Never Ending Love

      The Stars and The Moon

      Ode To Nick, 1969

      A Dog Named Franny

      I Had to Choose

      I Quietly Went Away

      I Can’t Cry For You Anymore

      Listen To The Wind

      The Oceans of Our Love

      Please Make It Right

      Fallin’ Paula

      This Moment Is All We Have

      Tuesdays and Rainy Days

      A Single Blade of Grass

      I Held You In My Arms

      Mr. Velvet Ears

      Velvet Ears And Pussywillow Feet

      Baby Dog

      I Saw You Watch Me

      Jessie’s Pain

      The Uninvited Guest

      My Father’s Pain

      My Own Thief

      My Girl

      Your Passage

      Don’t Know Why

      I Went A Wandering

      Never Alone

      Sugarly

      Some Day

      Make Life Count

      No Tomorrow

      October’s Window

      When I Was Very Small

      Morning Electra

      Autumn’s Change

      The Last Rose of Summer

      Gloria’s Last Dance

      The Illusion

      The Kite and The String

      In Nanny’s House

      Why?

      In My Garden

      Face pressed against the screen

      The evening beckoned me

      Voices rising from below

      Of things I should not see

      I longed to be out there again

      With all life meant to me

      My days were full of wonder then

      Of digging in the earth

      Of petting fuzzy caterpillars

      I was awestruck by my birth

      My friends were ants and ladybugs

      And fireflies in the night

      They’d call to me beyond the screen

      With blinking little lights

      As evening turned to night time

      I’d tiptoe back to bed

      Then darkness passed

      The sun at last!

      And once more I’d be free

      To join my lovely rosebuds

      And all that I could be

      While watching lilies on the pond

      With brilliant flowers all around

      And bandaids on my knees

      I’d steal away from mud pies

      To lie in long cool grass

      And look into the deep blue sky

      To talk to God and ask him why

      The life outside my garden

      Made so little

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