Always the Moon

By Leslie P Garcia

Always the Moon is an eclectic collection of poetry that spans the entire life experience. Family, life, relationships... poetry opens my soul and heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leslie P Garcia
• Release date: Nov 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223913276

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Other Books by Leslie P. Garcia

Anthologies:

Cowboy Up

Cowboy Up 2

Take Me Out

Whirlwind Romances: 10 Short Love Stories

Summer of Love: 10 Romancs to Make You Melt

Romance:

Unattainable

Wildflower Redemption

His Temporary Wife

A Love Beyond

Legend/horror/crime current issues:

La Llorona (The Wailing Woman)

Foreword

Who hasn’t written poetry? And as one grows older, who hasn’t stopped? One of my English professors declared that women couldn’t write poetry after they either married or were over twenty. He didn’t mention men losing that ability, but he was pushing forty, and still writing poetry.

Most of my poetry is from a younger me, but it’s still who I am—mostly. I walk out and am struck speechless by a full moon. Babies fill me with hope and joy, and break my heart if I wonder how their smiles will be changed by a sometimes cruel world. There are poems about animals and laundry, politics, people, and places.

A few of my poems are recent, and I always think I’ll pick up a pen on some given night, and go back to being me.

Some of my poetry has been available on Authors Den.com for years. For free. Some are only available here, because to be honest—most of these were handwritten. And I kept losing them. Thus, I decided to offer them in a collection of selected poems that I hope readers might enjoy.

From poems inspired by my kids, such as First Born, published by McCall’s years ago, to poems about the moon, terrorists, or homecomings, I think you’ll find something that makes you smile, think, or feel.

So, thanks for picking up a copy of Always the Moon or dropping by AuthorsDen.com. Enjoy.

Dedication

My mother, Nancy Rhodes Potter, was a librarian, and her love of books was a central part of my life. So librarians have a special place in my heart anyway, but colleague and school librarian Mrs. Josefina Bentiez became a special friend—someone with endless stories to tell, endless enthusiasm for life, and endless love—for her family and her friends. Your support, kindness and friendship meant the world to me, Mrs. B.—and I dedicate Always the Moon to you with love. We wish you hadn’t moved on so soon.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Days I’ll Never Live Again

Southern Child

...storm-whipped sky

Forever

Contemplation

Night River

I loved

Summer’s End

Forecast

Seasons

Flight

Surviving Rejection #3064...

My Typewriter Doesn’t Work

Words With a Friend on Writing

A Mother’s Wish

The Little One at Home...

First Born

Daughters at Twelve

First Birthday

To Lee ‘Jandra at Two

‘Baby Doll’

Last Born

A Mother’s Night Music

Broken Angel

Players

The Children Do

To Greg

Gone

August 4th

Punctuation

Spectator

Deception

Sisters

Sisters, Still

Swaggart et al

Hillbilly Music

walking alone

Night Chained to Day

Who I (Probably) Am

Depression

Surviving Child Rape

Undone

Thief of Night

Social Rites

Finally, Unafraid

South Texas Rain

Love Conjured

Rainstorm

Olympus

‘Bali Hai’

As If It Didn’t Hurt Enough

The Rain Binds

We were forever...

Taken

Marriage

Escape

Seventeenth Year

Chains

Spheres

Your Affair

You Fill My Arms

Wraiths

Divorce

Dissecting Forever

Eventually

Remnants

Conversation With a Clock

Encounters

Morning A La Carte

Hometowners

Silent Bells

Killing Santa

Christmas Eve, Always

A New Year’s Triology

Cynic?

‘Auld Lang Syne’

January 1, 12:03 am

President’s Day Parade, Laredo, TX

Eden

Pines writing out immortal words

October 31st

La Llorona

On the news

The Issue Always

On Martyrdom

Hardliners

Wasted

Invention

Chattel

Apocalypse Interrupted

Grenada, 1983

The Challenger Explosion—January 28th, 1986

To the Challenger Seven—A Week Later

Mud Slide

Solitary

Afterthought

To Henry Aaron

To an Ex-Boss

Job Search

Video games blasting away

The Creator

Respite

Prayer

Exultation

Roadside Crosses and Life

Near Bandera, Texas

Simple Things

Skunk Summers and Old Friends

Consolation

Night Walk

Always