When We Had Orchards When We Had Moonbeams

By Helen Sokolsky

This is a Chapbook collection of lyrical poems rich in imagery and metaphor.
Each poem is an ode to the beauties of the natural world as the author connects us
to the solace and comfort nature can bring us even in our most isolated moments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669828297

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Copyright © 2022 by Helen Leslie Sokolsky.

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Rev. date: 07/18/2022

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

The Quest

A Dream Keeper’s Journey

Field of Heroes

The Empty Chair

A Gatekeeper’s Vigil

The Smallest Survivors

Seascape

More Than A Sign on A Cardboard Box

Looking for Monet

The Waiting Room

Reflections on Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World

Sunday Evening

In The Company of Books

The Talisman

A Warbler’s Morning Prelude

White Noise

Epilogue

Lest We Forget

And We Will Gather Together

When We Had Orchards When We Had Moonbeams

Dedication

In loving memory of my sister Linda whose single moonbeam will always be there to guide us.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I gratefully acknowledge the editors of the following journals in which these poems first appeared. I especially want to thank Encircle Publications and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent for the 2019 Pushcart Prize nomination of

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