Realms

By Patricia Gorman

Poetry is in the atmosphere like electricity. At times, it acts as a lightning bolt. It illumines momentarily and then disappears. Its wisdom, beauty, and warmth long for form.

It weaves a blanket of words in and out among threads of ideas forming a pattern, providing comfort and warmth to wrap around the heart.

Join this poetic journey as we move back and forth through the realms of existence. View the world from a different mountaintop.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452578811

Patricia Gorman

Patricia Gorman is the mother of three, grandmother of six and a great grandmother. She works a full time job and writes poetry in her spare time. After her first poem was published, she extended the proverbial bucket list to making Christmas cards using her poems which she has done for the last four years. Next on the list was publishing this book of some of her favorite poems. Next? On to Graceland! Originally from Chicago, Patricia now lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband of 49 years, Bob.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-7880-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-7881-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913581

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/02/2013

Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Realms

Brilliance

Soul Mates

The Unexpected

Love Was Born on Christmas

MYSTIC LOVE TRILOGY I

II

III

The Bird

The Coming of the Monsoon

Once Upon a Desert Night

Fog in the Desert

Mother Autumn

Indian Flute

Since I Left

Sister Jude I

II

Sister

Some Say She’s an Angel

Perception

Just So You Know…(reflections on my mothers’ death)

To the Bear

This House

Family Rise and Fall

The Music Box

A Memory

Meloncholia

Butterfly For Yvonne

Images of the Holocaust

The Phone Call

Mother Ireland

Chicago Christmas

The Christmas Glow

Damn Cricket!

The Dentist

The Librarian and the Mouse

To a Cow on a Winters Day

Forest in