Caressing Me as I Grow Old!: Poetry from Before 2018 and on Through the Years of the Covid Virus.

By Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Caressing Me As I Grow Old! Is a book of poetry written as the author was facing the turmoil of the Covid Virus and in the process was realizing that she was getting older where she no longer could travel or most of the time even walk without a cane. She informed her family and friends that she had been through a lot in life and did not want to be stricken by the virus and facing death. The poetry in this book reflects the author’s concerns and her desire to have an effective vaccination avail-able to mankind, which did eventually come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665564069

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate was born in Kitale of the British East African colony, today’s Kenya, and was raised until school age on a farm with the name Kalua-Estates. She received her basic education in various European countries as well as in a boarding school in Lucerne, Switzerland. Even though Lucerne is in the German Swiss, the school conducted all its classes and communications in French. Her BA and MA degrees were earned at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her Ph.D. studies were completed at the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Los Angeles. She holds an AA degree in creative writing from the Palmer Writer School, at-tended several years of memoire writing through the Monterey Peninsula College, where she had the opportunity to share her writings with fellow students, most of them outstanding writers, and bought several courses in creative writing from The Great Courses. As professor in academia, she has numerous academic as well as creative writings presented at national conferences and published in academic journals as well as in local papers. She is the author of twenty-four books, with two volumes of memoires in the final stages and a novel about a father and son moving to Alaska almost completed.

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ISBN: 978-1-6655-6405-2 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022912319

Published by AuthorHouse 08/05/2022

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It is the world that caresses me more and more as I grow older.

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Dedication

This book of poetry is dedicated to all of the relatives and friends who waited along with the author Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate for a vaccination to be available against the Covid Virus. It was a long wait and was not over yet once this book of poetry was published. The author and her relatives and friends have now gone through the second booster shot and there is still no light at the end of this enormously mountainous tunnel. In the meantime, the author grew older, no longer being able to travel; at times, even to walk without a cane.

Contents

Before 2018

From the 1960 Family Diary

Poetic Inspiration

Whispers of Festivities

At the Edge of Forever

The Pageant of Fall

I Went to School

Once There Were

2018

What Is Winter?

Let the Wind Blow

Old Mother No More

2019

No Flowers Yet

The Need of Flowers

I Am Not a Witch

Do I Have Witchcraft?

I Talk to the Birds

Is It Still Winter?

Time Change

Driver’s License Renewal

Robotic Vision

It Never Comes in Ones

I Had Lost a Friend

Sadness

Spring

Four Little Swans

Hand in Hand

Is It Time to Check Out?

If There Is No God . . .

We Are Isolated

And So I Say Farewell

Amera

Amera’s Return

Season Change

Summer Has Gone

The Day We Lost Was Sunday

And the Sea Was Churning

Is the Sea Less Churning?

2020

He Walks Silently

It Is Not Known

What Is It You Want?

Is Rain Coming?

This Beautiful World

Where Is Winter?

It Is a Pity

It Is So Beautiful

I Just Cannot Die

It Is There

Could It Be That . . . ?

What Is That?

Who Won?

I Have to Ask

Why?

Are We Forgetting Spring?

The World

Silence

Are We Too Late?

There Is Fear

Some Cheerfulness is Needed

They Are Not Affected

My Dear Friend

The Cat

Pussy Willow

Is There Going to Be Any Hope?

Death Is At the Door

Still Sitting in Our Homes

My Husband and His Cat

I Wish

The Child

The Only Safe Place

Oh, How I Wish

The Paint Kit

Her Birthday

A Bit of Good News

Courting in May

Fog

The Stellar Jay

May Rains

My Car

Going Nowhere

The Ocean So Blue

The Bridge

I Ventured Out

A Cat

Changes to a New Norm

2020

My Nose Was Broken

The Magnolias

Two Horses and One Donkey

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