No Paine No Gain

✍ Scribed by May, McKinley

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Note from the publisher -- Foreword by Dennis McCullough, MD -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- David Acker. Step a little closer, please -- Annette Defazio Arnone. Crib beside my bed -- Orient Heights -- Connie Austin. The oysterman -- Shadbush -- Shirley Barer. Welcome to my life -- The package -- Don Bell. The gatherer -- Favorite pastime -- Mary Frances Carey. Leaving -- Closures -- Tess Clarkin. No warning -- The big tree -- Helen Davidson. Vacancy -- Beach rhythms -- Jack Dibenedetto. As if an intruder -- Who talks with animals, anyway? -- Gerry Digesu. Black stockings -- Joan Dugas. Poet world series -- Unsilenced -- Lydia Moore Dupertuis. Light -- Home -- Jack Elwood. If you are lucky in this life -- Retirement -- Joan Flynn. Haunted -- Reunion -- Lorraine C. Gardiner. The alligator -- Robert Gardiner. I must be special -- Jean Gleason. Let the little child come unto us -- Be still -- Helen Greenhow. passage -- the poet -- Betty Gurrier. He did not know me -- Where are you -- Jeff Hahner. The road not taken -- Past imperfect -- Irene Harris. Exchange -- Dorothy Ann Healy. Cursing Cupid -- Why can't I be like sheep? -- Nancy Schreiner Hubley. Autumn clarity -- Night sweetness -- Carolyn Keating. Morning song -- No passage -- Jeanne Kelly. Winter -- Leave the door ajar -- John Kennedy. Testimonials -- Long nights -- Bud Lamson. Old friends -- Raindrops -- Ralph P. Mariotti. Winter skeletons -- Homeless nameless shoeless -- Bob Mauterstock. My sunshine -- Simple pleasures -- Gerry McDowell. Waiting for the 'rents to die -- Sunset behind us -- Bob McLuckie. I though I had it figured out -- Tragedy -- Sandra McLuckie. Walking on the beach -- Gift of life -- Anita Mewherter. The diagnosis -- Jigsaw marriage -- Ancient wisdom -- John Mulcahy. Moons -- The thing I worked the hardest for -- Carole Neil. At sunset -- Closet door ajar -- Connie Newell. Exploring -- Mid-winter afternoon -- Jean Collins Norris. Twinkle star -- Judith Page. The shawl -- Bright star -- Kay Paine. They didn't know me -- A perfect day -- Opportunity turned down -- Nancy Patterson. Affliction -- I love -- Shirley Powell. The challenge of moving -- Air show -- Mickey Sampson. Home -- Gail Smith. Butterfly prayer -- I'd rather have a memory than a dream ... -- George Snider. March visitor -- A July sunset -- The red fox -- Pat Sutton. Last day -- Winter's wonder -- Arlon Tibbetts. Ambush -- It's reality, baby -- Henry Werrick. Affliction of delight -- Merely temporary -- Linda White Halvorsen. First glimpse of mortality -- Winter's night sky -- Dorothy Wilde. Sixth-grade first crush -- My Mayflowers -- Marjorie Reynolds Wright. Rituals -- Lost in translation.;"The poems that elderly creative writers shape are gems of reflection, both stimulating and enlightening ... some of the themes we discussed in class are mortality, redemption, trauma, resiliency, family, remembrance, war, courage, illness, and healing, along with the overarching theme of people being 'silenced' early in life, due to outside influence, family dysfunction, self-silencing shyness, then gaining a voice in the workshops. While some of the poets' introductions are more in-depth than others, each one provides an important look into the poet's inspiration for sharing their stories, their great courage in telling these stories, and what the poetry means in their present lives. Finally, it is the poems themselves that tell their stories, with more passion and truth than can be expressed in mere prose."--Taken from back cover.