VIGNETTES ON LIFE (eBook)

From birth to one hundred and two

Wilma Christine Guzman (Autor)

David Helleman (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
120 Seiten
Kinetics Design (Verlag)
978-1-988360-08-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Wilma Christine Guzman grew up in the country in Ancaster, Ontario. The daughter of Dutch immigrants, she is married to a Mexican-Canadian, has three children and lives in Toronto. Her poems encompass her own life experiences as well as people from historical, literary, cinematic and current times. She worked in Recreation Management in long term care for twenty-four years. Her travels in life include going to the west and east coast of Canada, taking cycling, canoe and horseback riding trips and traveled to the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico and in the USA. These poems express a range of emotions from anger, joy, sadness and show appreciation for the variety of ways people in all walks have lived their lives with courage.

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THE POEMS

 

Inspired by Nature

Contentment in a Sunbeam

A Bruised Reed I Will Not Break …

Spiritual Moments in Nature

Crawford Lake Musings

Trees in Need of Love

Imagine a World …

Chasing Clouds

Goose, Penguins and Squirrel lessons

Rocks as Pets

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Home and Community Life

How to Feel Young Again

A Parking Ticket Ordered

Bubbles Delight

Isolation and Connection

Life’s Chores

Language no Barrier

Community Connections

Making Applesauce Sweeter

Divorce in the Sixties

November Days Appreciated

Dealing with Losses

The Photos We Didn’t Take

A Necessary Detail Omitted

Celebrate the Real

Small Pleasures

Lessons Learned

Coming Back in with my Own Laundry

Our Quest for Perfection

Money where Their Heart is

A Reward on Earth

A Prank or a Vision?

The We Don’t Want to Know Department

Toothless thru the Ages

Numbered Graves

Three Intersecting Stories

The Nails of my Home

Bad News Overload

The Human Family Responds

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Life at Work

Compliments and Insults

Agents of Change or Stagnation

This too will pass … this too will pass …

The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Job That Gave Her a Landing

The Picker Upper

The Proper Way

The Reasons Why

The Bakery Men’s First Job

Reasons to Work

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Literature and Movies

Books for a Reason

Pockets for Grudges

Dying Broke

Flight of the Innocent

A Claimed Treasure

Accusations of Snuggling

Into the Spotlight

Fly Seizure Boy Fly

The Chaplain and the Executioner

Paulo Coeho’s Best Story

The Music Played On …

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Last Stages of Life

Grass Head Sock Puppet

Mutually Beneficial Exchanges

People will Do What we Never Dreamed they would Do

Grandma’s Life in Objects

End of Life Regrets

The Five Stages of Living

How to acknowledge death?

More Life to Live

Children at Funerals

Secrets of Longevity

Not Ready Yet

Memories to Erase or Keep

Memories Go, Feelings Remain

For Those Left Behind

Residents and their Possessions

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Reflections on War

Outsourcing Actions on Beliefs

Living with Fears

We are all Jews Here …

Experiences that become Ours

War’s Aftereffects

No Way to Win at War

Drugs and Alcohol ~ Wars’ Fuel

The Value in an offer to See a Movie

Artistic Expressions that Save

Clothespins Connections

The Best Cook in the World

LaShay’s Memorable Hug

Wartime Connections

Poetry in the Mud of Life

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2017
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Daniel Crack
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Christine Guzman • Daniel Crack • death & dying poems • family poems • From birth to one hundred and two • kdbooks • kdbooks.ca • Kinetics Design • life poems • movies poems • nature poems • poems about life • poems on aging • poems on books • poems on nature • poems on war • poems on work • Vignette • Vignettes on Life • war poems • Wilma Christine Guzman • Wilma Guzman • work poems
• ISBN-10: 1-988360-08-0 / 1988360080
• ISBN-13: 978-1-988360-08-9 / 9781988360089