Eye of My Mind Ii

By Phyllis Rush

I hope you enjoy my poems. They are made up of fun, serious, religious and tragic experiences and thoughts I have experienced through my lifetime. I basically am publishing my former book and this one for my children and grandchildren and their wonderful spouses, so they can get a picture of how their mother and grandmother of 88 years thinks and feels. I am proud of them and my husband, the Rev. Louis F. Rush of The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, would be of them, also. He died a few months before our 50th wedding anniversary. My faith means a lot to me and I try to live up to my wedding motto: Only one life, twill soon be past, only whats done for Christ will last.

So I hope that you will get a chuckle and some thoughtful moments from reading and thinking of the history in your past. Write a journal or poetry for your loved ones to help them connect to your past history, for if history is forgotten we tend to repeat it.

I started writing poetry in high school but never shared it until now. I never realized and am amazed at how much history I lived through and how much it affected the world in which we live. It is due to my husband that I started writing and collecting my poetry because he gave me a book with empty pages in which to write and keep my poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503516649

Phyllis Rush

I was born in New Orleans, LA in 1926. At the age of twelve years my father and mother moved back to their native state of Michigan, where I grew up on a farm. I became an elementary teacher in the parochial schools of our Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. I met and married the Rev. Louis F. Rush in 1950, who graduated that year. We have four wonderful children and ten fine grandchildren. I am widowed and 87 years of age, as my husband died a few months before our 50th anniversary.

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Contents

Harbingers Of Spring

Haiku

A Rose By Name

Death Of A Young Friend

Joseph, Foster Dad

Messiah Born

Messiah Born (Cont’d)

Old Ironsides

Old Ironsides (Cont’d)

Nonsense Rhyme

The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg, (Cont’d)

Listen To The Children

Father-Dad

Children Are Crying

A Nation’s Future

Declining Nations

Futures Forfeited

Clouds

Queenie And The Skunk

Toy

Petunias

Mud Wasp

Trees

Hawk

Greet The Day

Kite Day

Kite Day, (Cont’d)

Music From A Broom Closet

Family

Busy Bumblebee,

Death Of The Bees

Rainbow Arc

Ode To The Sun

First Day Of School

Limerik I - Rhinoceros

Limerick II – Gnome

Limerik III – Beaver

Peter

The Haitians