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    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry
    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry
    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry
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    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry

    By Cora Gilliam

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    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry is a multifaceted book composed of poems that express the author's feelings about everyday life. Each section of verse looks at tomorrow from one of seven different perspectives. The themes are based on common challenges that everyone may have to face from day to day. Each sect

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Media Reviews
    Release dateOct 25, 2023
    ISBN9781961395299
    Facing Tomorrow With Poetry
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    Cora Gilliam

    Cora Gilliam was an educator in an elementary suburban Michigan Public School. She is married and has two adult sons. Her family and the students she teaches are the catalysts that spark and inspire her creativity. She enjoys writing poetry for pleasure. Her philosophy is teaching children that their minds are learning tools that must be used throughout their lives.

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      Facing Tomorrow With Poetry - Cora Gilliam

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      Copyright © 2023 Cora Gilliam.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author and publisher, except by reviewers, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      ISBN: 978-1-961395-29-9 (E-book Edition)

      Some characters and events in this book are fictitious and products of the author’s imagination. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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      The Media Reviews

      99 Wall Street #2870

      New York, NY, 10005 USA

      www.themediareviews.com

      press@themediareviews.com

      +1 (315) 215-6677

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Facing Tomorrow With Love

      Thrilling Moments

      Brave Little Soldiers

      China Dolls

      Motherhood

      Beautiful Lady

      Love

      Fortitude Of Love

      Smiling Faces

      Facing Tomorrow With Hope

      Lilacs

      Outside

      A Winter’s Glory

      Symphonic Orchestras Of The World

      Justice

      Cotton Candy Prizes

      Facing Tomorrow With Freedom

      Freedom’s Light

      Black

      Holding Freedom

      Gazebos

      Snowbird

      Spiraling Circles of Freedom

      Facing Tomorrow Without Fear

      Breaking Free Of Fear

      Phantoms

      Do You?

      Flashing Lights

      Facing Tomorrow With Changes

      Carousel

      Winds Of Time

      Choo-Choo Train

      Cellophane Worlds

      Facing Tomorrow With A Friend

      Ballerina

      To Dance Again

      Two Snails

      Dragonfly

      Gratitude

      Shadows

      Facing Tomorrow With Prayer

      What Did Jesus Do?

      Angels

      Help Me, Lord

      Salvation

      From The Author

      Facing Tomorrow With Poetry

      A Book of Poems

      Dedicated

      to

      My Wonderful Grandchildren

      Brandon, Aaron, Candice, Morgan, Marlise, and Lawrence

      and

      Future Generations

      As they grow into

      amazing works of art,

      their beauty will unfold

      with dreams to behold,

      like colored ribbons splashed

      across an

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