Heartfelt Poems of a Mother

By Alta Whiters-Carson

No matter how our families turn out, it is very different from what we wished it to be. No matter what problems we may face, we can find comfort in knowing that if we have done all we could the way God wants us to, even if all our human efforts did not work, God promises to provide us with the strength needed to endure.
I love my sons, and God is waiting for them to change. These are words weve written over the years of times passed of suffering and pain. May it bring us closer together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493155019

Alta Whiters-Carson

Alta Whiters-Carson was born in Shreport, LA. and moved to California when she was eight. After finishing school at Castlemont High, she enrolled in a writing class at Laney College. Over time, she married and had three sons. However, she did not continue to stay in California. Alta Whiters-Carson moved to Cairo, Georgia in 2001. Alta’s life was marred by the pain her mom suffered. She never wanted to repeat any of those mistakes, but since that was all she knew growing up, it influenced her to make a lot of the same mistakes. Her poems reflect those events of pain she suffered as a child as well as the events in her adult life that she inflicted on herself. “I’ve learned to enjoy life for what it is. A gift. A gift of love from God.” -Alta Whiters-Carson

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Heartfelt

Poems of a Mother

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ALTA WHITERS-CARSON

Copyright © 2014 by Alta Whiters-Carson.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4931-5500-2

                eBook           978-1-4931-5501-9

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Rev. date: 12/28/2013

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Contents

1.   Mother and Daughter, how can it be?

2.   My Three Sons

3.   Weep what you Sow

4.   My spouse

5.   Young, unwise

6.   X wanting to return

7.   Traffic Director

8.   A Friend A Friend

9.   Frank

10.   Drinking, Destroying our love

11.   Tall, Dark, and Handsome

12.   You were his best Friend

13.   Too close to be together

14.   Going to the store

15.   Sweet Heart Candies

16.   Different Occupations

17.   Friend astray, Stay and Pray

18.   Their Neighbor I knew not

19.   Waiting a Life away

20.   Sadness

21.   Mentor

22.   I Refuse

23.   Listen Up!

24.   Yo Thang

25.   Reached that Point

26.   The Deepest Pain

27.   Go back to peace

28.   Don’t take your old baggage to a new wife

29.   Tears of Sadness in a happy Marriage

30.   Stop-Look-Listen

31.   Where is my Moment?

32.   Trying to make it, Thanks for the Pocket Change

33.   Is Marriage to be Painful?

34.   A Love of Trueness I never fo

35.   No Jobs

36.   Leaving, Not Losing Love

37.   Cairo Georgia

38.   Don’t Rock the Boat

39.   Talk is Cheap

40.   Taken for Granted

41.   Gifts can Wait

42.   Old Age is Hell

43.   Some day

44.   Love Love

45.   Just a few

46.   Calling to Check

47.   Forgive my Absence

48.   Standing in the Window

49.   What will I do?

50.   On the other end

51.   I know not anymore

52.   Are you burning bridges

53.   Forgetting to Call

54.   Look for me

55.   When things are clouded

56.   Hope

57.   The personal touch

58.   A stranger

59.   Lowliness

60.   Just thinking of you.

61.   Grandchildren

62.   Yum yum

63.   Granddaughter

64.   Niece

65.   Nephew

66.   Aunt Helen

67.   A love to call my own

68.   The one you love

69.   Untitled

70.   An Apology

71.   I can’t have you

72.   Real again

73.   When we first kissed

74.   People notice

75.   Someone you loved

76.   Stop hurting our children

77.   I wish I could fly

78.   Not Knowing

79.   Family

80.   Remarrying the same man

81.   Personification

82.   What is Love?

83.   Repetition

84.   Behind the six doors

85.   Behind the six doors

86.   Refrain Poem

87.   Soft poem, the wind

88.   Harsh poem, the waves

89.   Surrealistic

Dedication

This book is dedicated to:

My heavenly Father for his gift of life

My mom who raised me to love and to forgive

And my three sons and their families

Mother and Daughter, how can it be?

You look like me.

You cook like me.

You think like me.

You dress like me.

How can it be?

I just can’t see.

Walk