Golden Hours

By Lois Anne Polizzi

Through my poetry, I have endeavored to capture in words what might be achieved through the lens of a camera so that, through the minds eye, the reader might both envision and share in the feelings and emotional experiences of the writer. As a picture captures a moment of personal importance to the photographer, so does a poem to the poet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466900516

Lois Anne Polizzi

Lois Polizzi has been a writer of poetry as a hobby for the past forty years. Her desire to publish her work and to honor her grandmother, also a poet, has been a personal goal she has long dreamed of achieving.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011918505

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Contents

Golden Hours

Mary Elizabeth Sandy Duffy

Indian Summer

Teacher

Love Song

The Doll

Mother

Dad

The Wino

Ode to a Trucker’s Wife

Those Oldies but Goodies

Winter Storm

Night

Please Talk To Me

Home

Flowers

Lessons From My Younger Days

(a Song)

Pray for the Children

Old Age

A Memorial Day Remembered

Reflections

The Laundromat

The Soldier

At Concord Bridge

I Lit a Candle For You

The Walk

Michele

White Church by the Side of the Road

My Time

Fly Catcher

Old Brown Dog

Beauty

Duffy

Prologue

A Love Unspoken

Bonnie

It’s Not for Us to Know

Tea

Dear Steve

Christmas 1993

Christmas 1994

Christmas 1995

Christmas 2000

Christmas 2003

Guardian Angel

Thank You Lord

Golden Hours

Golden hours of childhood past;

they could not forever last.

Could we but then had known

what their seeds would be when grown?

Would we have chosen with more care

those tiny seedlets planted there?

Sewn only seeds of love and truth,

their blossoms gathered in our youth?

Sunshine not sorrow for those years.

Not clouds of bitterness and pain, and tears.

Not blasted hopes and shattered dreams.

Life’s future bright; not dark and gray as seemed.

But alas, why sigh in our regret?

There’s time to sew and gather yet!

Flowers from seedlets we might yet sew;

blossoms of kindness, love and trust to grow.

Glowing beautiful, radiant and bright;

reflecting the glory of God’s sunlight.

Our lives guided by His love and power

will find that future golden Hour.

Mary Sandy Duffy

(circa 1930)

Mary Elizabeth Sandy Duffy

April 1904 – April 1933

There is no one left today who can share the memory of that late morning, when she was laid to rest beside her ancestors; the Sandys, Washingtons, Spaders, Lambs, etc. in the little cemetery at Spader’s Lutheran Church, nestled on a country hill top in rural Mt. Crawford, Virginia. I sometimes wonder if it was a sunny spring day to perhaps lift the spirits, or mock the sorrow of those who gathered around the gaping wound that would receive the earthly remains of one so cherished. Or, if a soft rain fell; the droplets tapping on black umbrellas meant to comfort those who mourned. That God himself understood their sorrow and wept too.

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