Just Off Highway 71: Memories in Lyric

By John W. Crawford

For a reader that loves a bit of nostalgia, this book will provide much. Scenes of childhood adventures, teenage musings, and adult events all merge into various rhymed forms, from quatrains to sonnets. For those who enjoy a look at the past as well as the vision of the future, this volume serves well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: May 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647504670

John W. Crawford

John W. Crawford is a retired educator with earned degrees in B.A., B.S.E. from Ouachita Baptist University, AR (1959); M.S.E. from Drake University, IA (1962); and Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University, OK (1968). Crawford taught in public schools in Iowa and in colleges and universities at Clinton College, Oklahoma State, and Henderson State University (professor emeritus of languages and literature). He has four previous volumes of poetry and has won many poetry awards from regional, state, and national groups. Crawford has also read his poetry at numerous literary and philological meetings.

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Just Off Highway 71:

Memories in Lyric

John W. Crawford

Austin Macauley Publishers

Just Off Highway 71: Memories in Lyric

About the Author

Dedication

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Synopsis

Childhood Vision

Just Off Highway 71

Creation

A Lime-Green Carpet World

A Wish

A Chance

Making Up for Lost Time

Teacher’s Wit

Eighth Grade Adventures

The One Less Traveled By

A Night of Splendid Terror

Relationships

The Gift of His Son

Miss Emma

A Dish of Food

Orville’s Way

Harold Lloyd Jenkins Born Anew

The Youthful Heart

You Are My Adam and My Eve

Lasting Love

Constancy

Ballad of the Bog

The Cat Came Back

I Knew an Old Man Name of Joe

St. Patrick’s Day in the Spa

Bear and Neighbor Yap

Gabriel Meeks

Connie and Her Bell

Nature Rules

The Spring of Green

Japonica Alive

A Telltale Sign

Spring Green Boy

The Violet

The Hummingbird Holds Sway

Autumn Joy

Let Fall’s Song Ring

My Bear

Timely Perspectives

The Winds of Change

Success

The Tears Come Quickly

The Greatest Bridge Is Love

Mobility

Time Waits for No One

The Golden Years

Looking Back

That Little Band

My Sweet Home

More Than a Cup

God’s Voice to Man

Encounter

Meditation

I Sing from Day to Day

About the Author

John W. Crawford is a retired educator with earned degrees in B.A., B.S.E. from Ouachita Baptist University, AR (1959); M.S.E. from Drake University, IA (1962); and Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University, OK (1968). Crawford taught in public schools in Iowa and in colleges and universities at Clinton College, Oklahoma State, and Henderson State University (professor emeritus of languages and literature). He has four previous volumes of poetry and has won many poetry awards from regional, state, and national groups. Crawford has also read his poetry at numerous literary and philological meetings.

Dedication

I dedicate this volume to my late grandparents, Ivy and Effie Phillips, who raised me from birth due to my mother’s passing. They taught me the values of life that make for true joy, the values of honesty, fair play, hard work, and