No One Swims Alone

By Judy Brown

I hope these poems might be a gift for you. I can only hope.
One of the mysteries, for me as a poet, is how poems that emerge in my morning journal, reflecting some unexpected inner explorations, may turn out to be a gift to stranger or friend. It is a process as mysterious as writing down the poems themselves. What may catch your attention? Why? What words evoke a yes for reasons I could never know, never imagine.
So I send these poems off to you, like a note in a bottle, bobbing on the waves, landing eventually on a distant shoremoved by tides and windslike so much of our lives.
May this collection meet you where you are in your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Mar 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781490788135

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Copyright 2018 Judy Brown.

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CONTENTS

Appreciations

Other Books By Judy Brown

Note To Reader

I Will Go To The End Of The World

WINTER

Against The Wind

Another Storm

This Other World

Countries In Our Minds

The Geographic Cure

Longing For A Poem

Being Here

Rain And Sunshine

The Poetry Appears

Others

Unsaid

Why Hesitate?

Self Indulgent

Love And Fear

The Work Before The Work

Weather

Fruition

Arms Toward Heaven

As If

SPRING

The Change Of Seasons

I Sit With The Creek

Steady In The Rain

Angels

No One Swims Alone

Miracles

Possibilities And Limits

When Do We Eat Grandma?

Space Is Everything

Best Not

Long After

Some Days

A Smoother Road

Gifted

A New Light

Clear View

Dancing In The Wings

I Cannot Tell

Train

Empty Days

Clear Sky

Wild Spaces

A Secret

A Rising Tide

Tickled

SUMMER

A New Day

Birthday

Light

Umbrage

Oh, The Days Of Rakes And Brooms

Something Was Dropped

Fish Flies

Expectation

Forever

Storm Coming

Just Yesterday

Second Nature

Neighbor

Celebrate (For The Detroit Man In The Pink Suit)

We Know

Nature’s Dancer

Pruning

Home

I Write

Solitude

Travel With A Candle

Dreams

Family

Connections Break

Giving Up The Egg Shells

It Is A Time

North Toward Autumn

AUTUMN