Publisher's Synopsis
Reflections of life is a collection of poems; some are essays on things we see and experience every day, some are special memories from times past during the author's life of 70 years. Most of the poems are written in four line stanzas with rhyming words at the ends of each two lines. Some are humorous and some are almost spiritual in nature. Some are factual; there are poems that describe love and its relationships, and even the elements of nature. Some reflect a life of living alone and the stillness and noises I hear around me. Some are patriotic and reflect my Boy Scout and Military experiences. In fact, there is just about something for everybody in this collection. Tennis players and Starbucks customers will relate to a few, as will men who are single and enjoy female friends and companions. It's probably more "Father knows Best" and "Ozzie and Harriet" than the "Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live." Teachers will enjoy sharing them with students, because of the way the words are poetically laid out, in comparison to traditional sentence structure as we used to "diagram" them. The relationship of nouns to verbs and adjectives can be a little different with poetry due to a need to rhyme. This is an enjoyable book to read, and one that you can pick up over and over again and appreciate something new each time.
