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    Life is a Poem: Reflections on Love, Spirituality, and other Life Experiences
    Life is a Poem: Reflections on Love, Spirituality, and other Life Experiences
    Life is a Poem: Reflections on Love, Spirituality, and other Life Experiences
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    Life is a Poem: Reflections on Love, Spirituality, and other Life Experiences

    By Mary Minjeur

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    As a student Mary excelled in reading and writing. Over the years, her interests increased to writing about life’s experiences including love, relationships, children, aging, sickness, and dying. She also wrote articles and newsletters for philanthropic groups and was a member of the Newspaper Institute of America.

    Spiritual reflecti

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9781949502671
    Life is a Poem: Reflections on Love, Spirituality, and other Life Experiences
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    Mary Minjeur

    Her first book of freestyle verse, Life is a Poem, was published in 2007, and Life is a Journey was published in 2011. She has had poems published in anthologies by The Noble House, and by The International Library of Poetry. She is also a member of Poems of the World who publishes a worldwide quarterly chapbook. Some of her favorite authors are Kahlil Gibran, Anne Sexton, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, and more contemporary writers like Dr. Elma Photikarm and other freestyle artists.

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