The Jewel of Verse Ii and La Joya Del Verso

By Maria Holguin Morales-Hendry

I come from a family of high achievers and writers. My father, Alfredo Holguin Pombo, was president of a Mortgage Company and vice-president of El Banco de Colombia. He taught me to love poetry; my mother, Beatrice Murray Fairbanks de Holguin Cayzer wrote a newspaper column Buzzing With Bea for the Palm Beach Daily News for a period of fourteen years and four books, including Tales of Palm Beach. My aunt Elaine Murray Stone has written twenty books among them a biography on Mother Theresa. Both my grandfathers were Ambassadors, my cousin Jorge Holguin, may he rest in peace, owned a Theatre Company and wrote books, among them MadreSelva; my great grandfather was president of Colombia. I am related to three other Colombian Presidents, to William Prescott who wrote The History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 1800s; to Rafael Pombo, my great-great uncle who wrote Nursery Rhymes which are still read today by Colombian children; to Jonathan Fairbanks who built the oldest wooden frame house in the U.S.A. (Dedham, Mass.) and to Empress Eugenie Bonaparte, wife of Napoleon III. I have often wondered how Im going to achieve as much as these and other family members. With these two books of English and Spanish poetry I hope to become a distinguished member of my family. I was married for twenty-two years to the artist Ricardo Morales-Hendry and we have two daughters: Vanessa and Veronica and a grandson, Tristan Anthony Virgo. I currently reside in West Palm Beach, Florida. U.S.A.


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"A slight collection of lyric musings on lifes grand passions. When the reader conjures an image of poetry, one would imagine the specimens in this tiny volume would come to mind. Morales-Hendry uses traditional verse forms like the sonnet and devices such as end rhyme to convey the ever-classic themes of love and desire for most of the pieces. The only characteristic slightly distinguishing this from the norm of self-published American verse is that the collections second half is Spanish poems, reflecting the poets bilingualism and joint Colombian and American heritage, of which, according to her authors note, she is particularly proud. The English poems brim with emotion, mostly centering on love in its more accustomed formsbetween man and woman, parent and childwith a couple humorous pieces exploring the relations of domesticated mammals (Cookie and Spooky, Love and the Conqueror) tossed in for levity. Some of the love poems are proscriptive, offering recipe-like instructions for relational harmony (The MiniLove Lesson) and satisfying sex (The Love Lesson), while others wax on, painting the page with lots of one-dimensional moons, sky, fire and stars.

--Kirkus Discoveries

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 23, 2003
• ISBN: 9781465318206

Maria Holguin Morales-Hendry

Maria Holguin Morales-Hendry has been published in the following Anthologies: ANTHOLOGY, POEM, YEAR, AWARD World of Poetry Anthology “Tonight is Forever” 1990 Honorable Mention World of Poetry Anthology “Reflections (Will You, Will I?)” 1991 Golden Poet Award Outstanding Poets of 1994 “Dream of Love” 1994 Editor’s Choice Award Journey of the Mind - ILP “Cupid’s Gift” 1995 Best Poems of the “90s - ILP - “The Sea Gull Song “ 1996 Editor’s Choice Award A Celebration of Poets “The Sea Gull Song” 1998 Tides of Memory -ILP- “The Love Garden” 2000 America at the Millennium “A Rainbow of Wishes” 2000 Editor’s Choice Award Poetry’s Elite -ILP- “Love Lights” 2000 Editor’s Choice Award The Best Poets and Poems of 2001 “A Heavenly Spell” 2001 Editor’s Choice Award The Best Poets and Poems of 2002 “My Verse in the Universe” 2002 Editor’s C. Award Theatre of the Mind “Follow My Kisses, Follow My Dreams” 2003 Noble House ***Winner – Valentine’s Day Poetry Contest – “Love Lights” 2000, Changing Times – Books and Gifts – West Palm Beach, Florida. ***

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Copyright © 2003 by Maria Holguin Morales-Hendry.

Cover Photograph taken by Ricardo Morales-Hendry, Brooklyn, NY

Library of Congress Control Number:      2003096418

ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-4134-2946-6

      eBook         978-1-4653-1820-6

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Contents

About The Author

Love Lights … .

Will You—Will I?

Tonight is Forever

Dream Of Love

My Rainbow of Wishes

The Love Garden

Cupid’s Gift

No, You Don’t Have

to Marry Me

Swoosh—Pink

Flying Elephants

Follow My Kisses,

Follow My Dreams

Where Truth Lies

My Moonlit Dream

What Scares Me The Most

To Be Or Not To Be A Poet

Life Matters

My Verse in the Universe

A High Price to Pay

Life Lights

My Muse—Come Back

Triplets Tonight

Beware of Judgement Day

Dial a Hug

Cookie and Spooky

Love and The Conqueror

Forget the Fury

Rejoice—A New Century

An Old Love

A Heavenly Spell

Treasure My Love

The Sea Gull Song

Ode to My Mother

To My Loving Eldest Daughter

My Heart’s Delight

Tristan and the Circle of Life

Forget My Mother’s Advice???

Sometimes its called Life

Forever and a Day

X-Ray Vision …

What’s in the Bag?

I Will Never Stop

Loving You

Christmas By Mail

Sobre La Autora

La Meta Final

Besos . . . y nada más

La Pluma y El Candado

El Puercoespín y

La Coladera

El Criticón

Ay—!Mi Dieta!

Intuición

A La Vuelta de La Esquina

Las Gotas del Amor

La Divina Tragedia

Fuego Vivo

De Pronto . . .

Sentidos Quereres

Estrella Fugaz

Algo Dentro de Mí

Al Rojo Vivo

Oración del Poeta

Abracadabra: Soy Poeta

Aquí

La Hora de las Musas

Poesía por Amor

La Máscara Flotante

La Escultura y el Barril

La Esposa Parrandera

El Trono

La Casada Cansada

Preparativos

Estoy en Tus Manos

Alejados

Espérame

Otra Vez

Altibajos

Treinta Minutos

Límpida Desquitanza

Amor Triunfante

Acuérdate . . .

El Amor Siempre Vivirá

Contigo Soñaré

Versos al Viento

El País del Sagrado Corazón

Mi Sinfonía

Siempre Acierta

Mi Bola de Cristal

I dedicate The Jewel of Verse II to my dear, darling mother

Beatrice Murray Fairbanks de Holguin Cayzer.

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My mother with her horse Clan Ben at Sandringham Racecourse, England.

About The Author

I come from a family of high achievers and writers. My father, Alfredo Holguin Pombo, was president of a Mortgage Company and vice-president of El Banco de Colombia. He taught me to love poetry; my mother, Beatrice Murray Fairbanks de Holguin Cayzer wrote a newspaper column Buzzing With Bea for the Palm Beach Daily News for a period of fourteen years and four books, including Tales of Palm Beach. My aunt Elaine Murray Stone has written twenty books among them a biography on Mother Theresa. Both my grandfathers were Ambassadors, my cousin Jorge Holguin, may he rest in peace, owned a Theatre Company and wrote books, among them "MadreSelva; my great grandfather was president of Colombia. I