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    Stars in a Jar
    Stars in a Jar
    Stars in a Jar
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    Stars in a Jar

    By D. S. Lerew

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    The poems in Stars in a Jar are as eclectic as the person who penned them--some silly, some sad, some sacred, some hoping, some hurting, some heartfelt, but all reflecting the wandering mind of a head-in-the-clouds dreamer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBumblebee Road Publishing
    Release dateApr 15, 2020
    ISBN9781393856559
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      Stars in a Jar - D. S. Lerew

      Acknowledgments

      It takes a village to write a book, and I am eternally grateful for the one I’m blessed to be a part of.

      To my husband, Mike, and my sons, Wesley and Wayde, thank you for putting up with a wife and mother who often has her head in the clouds and leaves notebooks and scraps of paper lying around the house.

      To my aunties, Doris, Kass, and Annabelle, thank you for always offering words of encouragement and advice, and for standing with me as I pursued my crazy dreams.

      To the many teachers and professors who instilled in me a love of reading and writing that always drove me, sometimes quietly, sometimes fervently, to want to publish books of my own. Special thanks to Marjorie Maddox Hafer, whose evening poetry workshops were some of my favorite classes at Lock Haven University.

      To the ladies in my writers’ group, J. Anne, Joy, and Linda, thank you for providing words of wisdom and revision, and for putting up with my various dramas.

      Most of all, thank you to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who also puts up with all my quirks and questions, faults and foibles, and who gave me the gift of the written word.

      Dedication

      To my parents. I know poetry was never your thing, but I hope this book would make you proud.

      CONTENTS

      I’m Either in Love or It’s Something I Ate

      Villanelle: To Ireland

      Orange Is October

      An Unexpected Truth

      The Modern Romeo, to His Latest Crush

      The 21st-Century Woman’s Reply to the Modern Romeo

      Thirteen Halloween Haikus

      This Winter Night

      Winter in Lock Haven

      Christmas: Then and Now

      Pennsylvania Spring: A Sonnet

      Her Side of the Story

      A Mother’s Priority

      Acceptance

      Moonlight and Shadows

      How Agile Is Your Tongue?

      Knight Errant

      The Mosquito on the Page

      One Verse That Poe Forgot

      Fog

      Math Class

      Thirteen Ways of Looking at Stars

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