Air and Ground Poems

By Elizabeth Ann Bowen

Air and Ground Poems is a compilation of poems from Elizabeth Ann Bowen. Composed over the course of several years spanning youth to adulthood, the collection includes haikus, limerick, a sonnet, and some free verse. The poems range in mood from funny to sad, whereas some are introspective and thought provok

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Feb 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685153472

Elizabeth Ann Bowen

Elizabeth Ann Bowen is an avid reader and loves to write, whether it's the occasional poem or story, a letter to a friend, or journaling. Having lived all across America, she is very fond of the outdoors and is a great lover of animals. She currently lives in Utah with her husband and twin girls. Air and Ground Poems is her first book and the product of a life-long dream.

Book preview

Garden (Dove)

Seeds planted in an affectionately tended nest,

She keeps them warm and secure.

Dissuades undesirable company,

Tolerantly awaiting the anticipated influx.

Departs briefly,

Outings never over extensive.

Time flutters by,

Moment shortly to come.

It finally succumbs;

Life finds its way through.

At ease, she sings.

Duty fulfilled

She gladly receives her brood.

Potential

Blank pages are as wasted as a mind hiding in darkness,

so many mysteries, adventures, friendships

waiting to be uncovered.

The author and pen the empty space needs to make it whole.

A mind cowering in darkness is as wasted as blank pages waiting to be taught;

so much potential, a vast space anticipating the color meant to fill it up.

The teacher and books the void needs to make it whole.

Yet a mind, if filled, is of great worth,

achieving impossible goals.

Power harnessed correctly, the mind now filled may fill another.

And blank pages, if embraced, may change a nation.

Before lacking life, left to waste away

now precious and treasured,

will live forever in our hearts.

The mind, the pages, may be as one:

The pages without words,

the mind without knowledge,

Have no place in the world.

Both have great potential, both could be very strong,

yet ultimately, together they have tremendous power over all.

Hands

Spiders

dancing in a

hurried yet elegant manner,

as they would

if