With Love, Jane

By Jane Jordan

Jane Jordan obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Education from UNC- Chapel Hill, NC in 1973. She lives presently in Charlotte, North Carolina. This book contains simplistic poems and prose to describe Jane's fiction and non fiction events in her life and her perspective on love, philosophy, and beauty. She makes comments on her family members with writings dedicated to them and to public figures such as past artist Virginia Fouche who lived in the area around Charleston, SC and Prince William and Kate Middleton from the United Kingdom. She has received the Editor's Choice Awards from the International Library of Poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503552906

Jane Jordan

Jane Brawley was born on March 5, 1951 to Bobby and Betty Brawley. She has one sibling, her brother, Robert Brawley. She grew up in the small town of Mooresville, North Carolina. After graduating from Mooresville High School in 1969, she attended Erskine College, in Due West, South Carolina from 1969-2917 with a music scholarship in piano. Music remains one of her loves. She transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1973. Jane then taught school mostly in Charlotte, NC and then worked in other professions. Throughout her life Jane has written her own simplistic form of prose and poems. She expresses her faith and real sentiments now to share in a variety of fiction and non fiction life events. Jane was later married and divorced, changing her last name to Jordan and had three beautiful children, sons, Scott, Jamie and Kevin Jordan. She has continued to live in Charlotte, North Carolina to the present date. In 2003 Jane started posting her poems online at poetry.com sponsored by The International Library of Poetry. She received the Editor’s Choice award for her works in the years 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008. Such poems are included in this collection of her writings. She has written poems to commemorate the marriage in 2011 of His Royal Highness, Prince William Mountbatten-Windsor, the Duke of Cambridge to his wife Catherine, known as Kate, and later at their first year anniversary. In 2013 at the time of the birth of their first child, she wrote a poem for Prince George Alexander Louis Windsor. All poems were warmly responded to by the royal couple. In the author’s words,….. “Life is an awesome precious experience. May these words lead you to treasure life to its fullest as I bestow this book to you, with love, “………

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AND THERE HE WAS

A nd there he was,

I loved him the moment I first laid eyes on him.

My love, tall, dark and uniquely handsome,

just like in the fairytales I had read when I was little.

Standing there in the sunlight with moonbeams in his eyes,

wearing a white bathing suit almost as white as the sands

of the beach he stood on and yet with eyes blue as the sky, not dark like

the jet black hair that surrounded his chiseled Grecian face on

top of a tanned well toned body like Michelangelo’s David.

I stood there dazed as struck by lightening and my heart pounded

like the thunder that accompanies such storms of passion. I felt a passion that

matched the color of my red bathing suit. Oh to be in his arms. Would that

not be heaven. Oh to feel his lips on mine. Oh, would that not be heaven.

My dark brown eyes met his blue eyes and instantly there was a mystery

that took us both to worlds unknown that only lovers know.

like no one else is around. There was only the two of us in

the entire world. Chills went up my arms and spine. Oh, if he were mine.

It is 50 years later. I look at him now standing in the sunlight

on the boat deck of our summer home and the gray in his hair matches

mine from the many miles we have traveled together, in rain or

sunny weather now, with children and grandchildren by our side.

I am still his young bride. There are still moon beams in his eyes

and we live now within a stronger love, not knowing where one begins

and the other ends, but still the thrill of being with

him remains, and I have never been the same since

the mystery of our romantic love is as it twas,

when sometimes I remember first seeing him,

And there he was.

Jane Brawley Jordan

February, 2004

ANSWERS IN SILENCE

I ask questions and complain to God.

Silence

I want, I need, I seek, I ask, I trod.

Silence

I cry and wonder why men suffer so.

Silence.

I hate the evil and all my foes.

No answers, just silence.

I listen, I understand, I care, I give.

Conversation, friends.

I bake, I plant, I sew, I sing.

Food, beautiful flowers, garments and music

that never ends.

The more I stop to seek for myself and start

to give, the more I find I want to live.

For it is in giving to others that starts,

the treasured memories in our hearts,

that remains the sweetest silence.

Jane Brawley Jordan

2005

BEAUTY

B eauty speaks without words.

In the settling of the sun and

the rising of the moon.

The lightening bugs that fly

under stars of a twilight June.

The rolling waves of sea,

white beaches for you and me,

to lay ourselves down on these alabaster shores

as we gather dreams from the clouds above,

and never want for more,

than to look into each others eyes

and see the mystery of love adore.

No words are spoken here

to describe the awe within our souls,

as we behold this beauty.

BEVERLY

S weet, unassuming, only presuming she will be treated

with the same kindness she gives to others.

She is a wife, a friend and a mother.

The beauty in her soul is reflected in how she approaches every day,

with hope in her struggles, courage, an optimistic smile

and seeking Christ along the way.

She nurses not only the sick in body, but the poor in soul,

by her constant giving and her joy in living out the simple tasks

within her control.

Beautiful ? Yes. Blessed are we who know her as we thank

the Lord above,

for this rare child of His who shows His mercy and His love.

Jane Brawley Jordan

March 19, 2004