An Old Oak: Collection of Poems and Quotes

By Rebecca Holland Pilgrim

THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND REFLECTIONS THAT WERE WRITTEN THROUGHOUT A LIFETIME. REFLECTIONS OF FUN TIMES, CHALLENGING TIMES, TIMES OF PAIN, AND TIMES OF UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS THAT SHAPED A LIFE.

REBECCA, A MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER BELIEVES THAT OUR MEMORIES AND EXPERENCIES ARE WORTH SHARING.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9781663248299

Rebecca Holland Pilgrim

The author is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she earned a Post-Master’s degree in Nursing. A retired Family Nurse Practitioner of 32 years. Rebecca enjoys the great outdoors doing all sorts of fun sports; golfing, hiking, kayaking, and sailing. She has a love of collecting antiques or anything old. She especially enjoys making old things look new again. Rebecca is a voracious reader and has a passion for writing. Rebecca has written about life experiences through poems and reflections. This collection of poems will spark a memory or cause one to pause and think, “I have been there before.” There are numerous quotes. A very interesting read. Rebecca is currently writing a novel, “The killing of Alfonso” based on true events.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-4830-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-4829-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022922198

iUniverse rev. date: 04/20/2023

Contents

An Old Oak

An old Oak

Have You

A Kind of Girl

Arms of loneliness

Yesterday

Wrong love

Unhappiness

Home of the Blues

Lonely Am I

Everyone

No Words Spoken

Intuition

I Miss You

Our Day, Thursday

Lonely Seashell

Girl

Valentine

One More Drink

Shadowy Path

Unforgettable Knowing

Never love another

Still

Cool day

I Am

Crazy Stupid Weird

Once knew a man

No Tears for Me

The Sea

The Wall

The Love of Golf

Dark Eyes

Come Softly to Me

The Truth

Sally Was Never My Name

No Love At All

Surgery

Longing for Nothing at All

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As one Looks out across an open field as far as the eye can see… amazing green grass with sunflowers leaning forward and smiling up at me. Standing in the center of this paradise is a solitary old Oak. A strong mighty oak with its branches reaching far and wide, its roots planted deep within the dark soil of the earth.

A mighty old oak tree stands tall reaching upward to the sky. The old oak stands alone, unmoving, solid, and proud, reminds one of a man, an unforgettable man. He is as the old oak, solid, unmoving, and proud, reaching out beyond the fields with his roots planted deep in the rich dark soil of the earth, standing alone to make America great AGAIN.

A man with an exterior as coarse as an old oak’s bark, rigid and stout. He has weathered many storms, suffered,