Odds & Ends and Bits and Pieces: An Anthology of Poems

By Rosaria M. Wills

The book is an anthology of poems. Poems were written by her late husband. (Mostly dedicated to her), by his deceased father Ridley Wills and his deceased uncle Jesse Wills

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481761963

Rosaria M. Wills

Rosaria Wills was born and raised in Naples, Italy. She met her husband, Dave, while he was serving in the air force. They moved to Florida, and she graduated from Rollins College. She spent six years with her husband in Germany, teaching for the department of defense. She is still currently teaching prealgebra in Longwood, Florida.

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© 2013 by Rose Wills. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/25/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-6195-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-6196-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013910548

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Foreign Policy Of America

Chapter 2 Leaves In The Wind

Chapter 3 Stop While The Dragon Eats

Chapter 4 The Rusting Years

Chapter 5 Erosion

Chapter 6 Clouds

Chapter 7 Pride

Chapter 8 And Then

Chapter 9 Anti Freeze

Chapter 10 Que Up—No Showing

Chapter 11 The Sunflower Field

Chapter 12 Suspicion

Chapter 13 Tranquil

Chapter 14 Up The Clock, Doc

Chapter 15 Respite

Chapter 16 Beach Impressions

Chapter 17 Beato Me

Chapter 18 Christmas In The Air Force

Chapter 19 The Watch Before Christmas

Chapter 20 Oh, Say Can You See?

Chapter 21 Superiority

Chapter 22 The Screwing

Chapter 23 Halo

Chapter 24 War

Chapter 25 Pastoral

Chapter 26 Roy

Chapter 27 Taken

Chapter 28 Mother’s Day 2001

Chapter 29 Mother’s Day 2002

Chapter 30 Mother’s Day 2003

Chapter 31 Mother’ Day 2004

Chapter 32 Mother’s Day 2005

Chapter 33 Mother’s Day 2007

Chapter 34 Valentine’s Day 2001 36 Years

Chapter 35 Valentine 2003—And All These Years

Chapter 36 Valentine’s Day 2004

Chapter 37 Valentine’s Day 2005

Chapter 38 Valentine’s Day—2007

Chapter 39 Soixante

Chapter 40 Merry Christmas 2004

Chapter 41 Another Birthday

Chapter 42 37 Years Anniversary

Chapter 43 39 Years Wow!

Chapter 44 The Golden Mean

Chapter 45 Conflagration

Chapter 46 The Chaste Land

Chapter 47 Empathy

Chapter 48 Horatian Epode To The Not Impossible Duke Of Malfi

Chapter 49 Impatience

Chapter 50 In Defense Of Suicide

Chapter 51 To The Moderns

Chapter 52 Tercets Of The Triad

Chapter 53 Oum*

Chapter 54 The Survivors

Chapter 55 Automobile Ride

Chapter 56 A Fundamentalist

Chapter 57 Trinity To The Controversialists

Chapter 58 Primavera

Chapter 59 Night Windows

Chapter 60 Riddle

Chapter 61 To A Tired Clerk

Chapter 62 To My Favorite Daughter

Chapter 63 Your 55 ½ Year Birthday

I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new.

I thought about you yesterday and days before that too,

I think of you in silence, I often speak your name

All I have are memories and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is my keepsake with which I’ll never part,

God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart

David W. Wills was born in Memphis, Tennessee but spent most of his life in Florida. He retired from the Air Force after spending twenty-two years all over the Western World. After leaving the Air Force, he taught High Schools and then various colleges for twenty-five more years.

He was married to Rosaria M. Wills and lived in Florida. He was married for forty-three years and he dedicated most of these poems to his wife.

CHAPTER 1

Foreign Policy of America

Foreign Policy of America (FOPA)

The Colossus FOPA was conceived and born

In the Spirit of 76,

And sprang full grown from the country’s womb

The ills of the world to fix.

Born a giant of simple mind,

The tool of various men,

While still a babe of tender age,

Was pushed from the nest to fend.

He made his way as best he could,

Knowing neither craft or guile,

For each new term and party supreme

He served them all with a smile.

Jefferson, Adams and Franklin too,

and Pickney, Patterson and Byrd,

A struggling infant in a world of men,

But still his voice was heard.

He secured the help of noble