Love Verses

By Avis Veronica Simmonds

I wrote this book of Love Verses because:
Waking up to another day brings love to life; Life is full of love with family
Seeing nature in all its beauty is lovely to behold
Love is forgiving
Love is universal; it is a word that even a toddler understands
Love is like the beautiful butterfly, fluttering in our hearts because our love has come
Love makes a bond between two individuals in matrimonial celebration –
I love you for better or worse, through sickness or health, through the good times and down times, until we depart this earth from one another.
Love is everlasting! And as I admire the upper right broken wing of this butterfly in all its beauty, so too, will my love admire me when my beauty fades in the twilight of my days. I am in love!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664138537

Avis Veronica Simmonds

Avis Veronica Simmonds is coordinator of academic programs/designated school official for international students in the Office of International Education and Development (OIED); she is also the alternate responsible officer for J-1 Students/Scholars and H-1B Visas at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). Mrs. Simmonds is a graduate of FAMU with a Master’s degree in social work. She is from the beautiful island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean and has been living in Tallahassee, Florida, for over twenty years. As a poet, she has two poetry books, Words on Wings and Words from the Writer’s Pens. This is her third one. She also enjoys writing quotes which she plans to have published one day. One of her well received poems is “Ain’t We All International.” One of her quotes is, “Teach me and I will learn, show me the world and I will understand my fellowmen.” Mrs. Simmonds is married to Dr. Keith C. Simmonds, published author and professor in the College of Social Science, Arts, and Humanities at FAMU. She is also the proud parent of three children, Kenneth, Gwendolyn, and Kevin, and a recent daughter-in-law, Parisha. Two of her children are graduates of FAMU and one from Howard University. Avis is also a world traveler, having traveled to Hong Kong; Lagos, Nigeria; Durban and Cape Town, South Africa; Canada; and several countries in Europe, including Paris, France, England, and Germany. Two years ago, Avis presented at Mangosuthu University of Technology in their Empowered Administrators Conference and had poetry readings. One of her beloved activity is dancing.

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