Red Poppies and Green Clover: Poems

By Linda H. Feinberg

Poetry by author and artist Linda H. Feinberg. This poetry is similar to a journal of self-discovery after a divorce. Refreshing and simply written, but with passion and joy. As a poet the author creates visual images and emotions with her words. The poet’s journey starts with a search as her marriage ends, her anguish and fantasy life, her growth and anxiety as she starts a new single life. She includes poems about her friends and family who give her the strength to continue her growth and ends with finding her true love and continuing her journey. She plans on publishing a chapbook “Gathering the Sparks” later this year. Both books are currently out of print.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda H. Feinberg
• Release date: May 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310568282

Linda H. Feinberg

Linda H. Feinberg was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the suburbs of New York, on Long Island. She left home at 18 to go to school at Boston University and was married in her senior year. She taught high school Spanish in Manchester, New Hampshire for one year and fell in love with the state. She left for ten years as she traveled with her former husband to Belgium where he attended medical school. They lived in various states while he completed his internships and residencies and finally made it back to New Hampshire in 1979. She worked as a secretary and administrative assistant during those years and in between having her three children. They divorced after 18 years of marriage.In meeting her second husband, Joe Smiga, she found her soulmate and true life partner. They have both encouraged each other to grow and change. Joe coached Linda to start her own business which she ran for 23 years until she retired and to take art lessons. She started her art studies in her late 50’s and is inspired by hiking in beautiful New England as well as by Biblical verses and images. Her artwork can be seen on her website and blog. As a poet Linda creates visual images and emotions with words. As an artist, she tries to connect with the essence of the image aesthetically and spiritually.Linda and Joe are both retired now. They are doing some travelling, spending eight weeks in Israel in 2012 and taking other tours as well. Joe continues his writing and his books are available on his website as well as through the Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites. They have recently purchased mountain bikes and are enjoying cycling on the local hiking trails around Manchester, New Hampshire. They also hike in the White Mountains which inspire more of Linda’s paintings and poems.

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Red Poppies and Green Clover

By Linda H. Feinberg

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original copyright 1990 Linda H. Feinberg

copyright 2014 Linda H. Feinberg

cover painting and design copyright Linda H. Feinberg

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Second Printing, 1995

Third Printing, 1997

Fourth Printing, 1999

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Dedication and Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to my family, without family and roots we are like the autumn milkweed seeds blown in the wind, beautiful, but fragile. My family has given me the strength to start over in life and to keep moving forward. There have been times when I have slipped back, but their love has helped me through those times and this book is my gift back for that love. Thank you for being there for me.

Linda H. Feinberg

Manchester, New Hampshire

1989

Acknowledgements

The following poems have been published in various magazines:

At dusk, Intense, the literary & arts magazine of Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH, 1993.

The Frustrated Housewife, Up Against the Wall Mother, Alexandria, VA, Vol. V, No. 1, January, 1985.

Dinah Goldberg, of blessed memory, Anthology, A Heart of Wisdom: Making the Jewish Journey from Midlife Through the Elder Years, editor, Susan Berrin, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT 1997

On My Own, Families in Transition newsletter, Fall 1998

Published in the Reporter, Manchester, NH:

Friday Night, September 1991

Come with me, October 1991

Ruach Elohim, October 1991

Creativity/Sterility, December 1991

Job Title: Mother, November 1991

Prayer for my children, June 1992

Published in the Devine Times, Manchester, NH:

At dusk, October, 1984

This mindless, senseless typing’s, June 1984

Seeds sliding into grooves, May 1984

Somewhere in fields of, March 1984

Dressed in lavender and pink, May 1985

Dorr’s Pond, March 1986

Finalist in Blue Mountain Arts 7th annual poetry contest, October 1999: Job Title: Mother

Also in anthology A Mother’s Love is Forever, published by SPS Studios, Inc. (Blue Mountain Arts)

Introduction to the e-book version

The print edition of the original book is currently out of print, but can be found in a few libraries in New Hampshire. I welcome feedback and comments. This book covered a difficult time in my life when I started to write a journal. I realized after reading back some of my journal entries that I could make them into poetry as well. My difficulties passed after many years and I fell in love again. My second husband and I have been together almost 30 years now and are still in love.

My idea of poetry is to write words as communication, not just to show off my vocabulary and education. I don't relate to poetry that is pretentious or pedantic and I prefer to create images that most people can understand. We are not alone and while I frequently need periods of solitude to refresh my spirit, the realization that we are all part of something greater aided in bringing me out of my depression in the past and helps me today to reach out and communicate with others.

Writing and reading poetry during my life have been therapeutic and helped me cope with my despair as well as given me an outlet to express my pleasure with life. In most religions the liturgy is poetic, helping us rise above our human condition. We need not be overwhelmed by our burdens and do not need to have experienced actual suffering to relate to the emotions expressed in poems and prayers.

Our daily life along with its frustrations and stress, grinds us down, hiding our dreams and lover's needs. Poets have the capacity to see and hear in depth, helping us to rediscover love and happiness. Our struggle for the integration of all the different facets of our personalities helps us conquer oppression and despair, reaching higher levels of joy and challenging us each day to be