More Winds: A Second Collection of Poems

By Carol H. Ehrlich and Willem A. Wils

MORE WINDS continues the offerings appearing in Ehrlich’s earlier work, WINDS IN MY SAILS, reliving and digesting her experience with nature, with family, with aging and with loss. Common to all, her descriptions, reactions and insights illuminate the human condition. They will resonate with readers, because “we’ve all been there.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781532094125

Carol H. Ehrlich

Now 93 years of age, Carol H. Ehrlich earned her Ph.D. at the University of Denver in 1965, then taught there, at Colorado State University, and finally at Columbia University (NYC). She directed clinics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver. Her family and writing have been her focus since retiring in 1984.

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iUniverse rev. date:  01/30/2020

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

NATURAL WORLD

DOLPHINS

MAGNOLIAS

EQUINE SENTINELS

BULL MOOSE

STREAM OF LIFE

FEATHERS

RENEWAL

THE LAKE BELOW ME

RAINCLOUD

CLIMATE CHANGE

EPHEMERAL–

WINTER COMING

FIRST SNOW

FEBRUARY SPARKLES

DEEP SOUTH SEASONS

INNER WORLD

PRIMITIVE PLEASURE

ON BECOMING 86 YEARS OLD

THISTLE

THISTLES AGAIN

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION IN OUR 80’S, IN THE 90’S AN ARITHMETIC JOKE

REMARKABLE STONE

KISSES AT THE AIRPORT

BEAUTY

HITCHED

JUST WORDS

IN NEED OF BOOTS

HEARTBREAK 9/11…

HOW SHALL WE TEACH THE CHILDREN?

THE MUSIC CALLS

FIREPIT MAGNET

MUSCLE MEMORY

MOTHER

MY THREE KIDS

WHO I AM

NEWBORN

CONTENT?

UNFINISHED

REALITY

MY GIFT FOR YOU

LOVE

ORDINARY

FRIEND

AFTER THE FUNERAL

ALONE

SOLITUDE–THOUGHTS OF A NEW WIDOW

ENDLESS JACKSON POLLACK

LADY IN #6*

CORE

BECOMING NIRVANA

ON WAITING FOR MY 12Th GREAT-GRANDCHILD

TEARS

TIME WAS

CHANGE

IT’S LIFE

THE TASK

THE BACK NINE

IT IS TIME

AFTERWORD

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DEDICATION

More Winds is dedicated to my family–that from which I came,

and that which I helped produce. They are my stream of life.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

What a blessing to have had the generosity of so many people during the course of my writing!

At the beginning, Lew Sarett, comes to mind. He was one of my professors and a legend at Northwestern University; he opened the world of free verse to me, including the beautiful and simple writings of Carl Sandburg, his friend. They started me on this journey. (Other well-known poets, too many to list, contributed, so I thank them all.) The germ