Poems That Changed Me and Remind Me That We Are Creatures of the Creator: I’M Blessed with Peace … Because a Butterfly Knew Me and a Red Bird Sings to Me

By Bee Jay Caldwell

This a book o poems about my true life experiences. Some may seem fictional, but each one is true. Some have said to me that I have an odd, strange and peculiar side to me.
My suggestion is to buy this book if you believe in the spirit of the ancestors and that there is more to life than what you feel, hear and see.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481728065

Bee Jay Caldwell

Betty Jane “Bee Jay” Caldwell, a native of Huntersville, North Carolina, is living in the retirement home she helped to refurbish. She is a 1994 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools retiree who has served in many occupations since retiring as a secretary. Currently she is a storyteller who loves to share her insight of her ancestors and those enslaved in Colonial America. She has been attached to former slave plantations where she is a costumed interpreter telling the story of those who did not have a voice to tell their own story. One of her favorite sayings is, “treat others as you wish to be treated.“ The legacy she wishes to leave behind is “that I was a fair team player.”

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/27/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2807-2 (sc)

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Table of Contents

PART I THEME:

"Because They Were, We Are…

Family… Forever and Ever and Always

YOU! YOU! YOU! And Extra Special YOU!

The Alexander Family Song

For the First Time

Alexander Family Poem (1982)

Xander News

1995 Reunion

Family Thanksgiving Prayer

PART II THEME:

Get Connected and Stay Connected

Carrying the Past to the Presence

Enslaved Africans Knew That

America Wasn’t So Beautiful

Sons and Daughters

Today’s Youth

The Black Man

W O M A N

PART III THEME:

My Loving Parents: Spurgie and Moth Moth

My Parents’ Home Place~1950-2007

It’s Time To Rejoice

Love, In The Form of Memories,

Lives Forever

Her Name Was Shirley,

But

We Call Her, Moth Moth

Shirley’s Legacy Can Be Summed Up As

Rules For Life

Momma’s Daughter, Pearl, Was My Grandmother

PART IV THEME:

Love Lives… .

My Loved Ones Who Live Forever With Me

The Moth, Moth Butterfly

Aunt Hallie

My Good Friend, Laine

William

Betty’s Haven~Grant On The Green

PART V THEME:

The