Sweetheart and My Love

By Russell Lunsford

Sweetheart and My Love is a collection of personal experiences expressed in a diverse range of verse by the author. It gives the reader an opportunity in common thought to celebrate life, from a child’s beginning, one’s personal faith, to our last moments in this wonderful beginning of our existence. If this life is “just a breath,” as the Bible says, just imagine what is in store for us.

What Does My Baby Dream
What does my baby dream
as he lays napping in my arms?
Eyes searching about under closed lids,
circling, fluttering, opening slightly, closing tightly…

Grandma’s Queen Elizabeth Rose
Lord God Almighty I leave it to Your judgement,
as to when You will take me home.
But I hope You’ll consider a simple request,
if you are going to take me,
and I hope You will,
take me when my roses are in bloom…

What Hurts the Most
It’s unsettling to know,
you are slowly diminishing,
the light in your eyes is gradually diming…

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9781663255860

Russell Lunsford

Russell Lunsford enjoys reading and is passionate about American history. He is a retired counselor with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and a retired Chief Warrant Officer4 with the US Army and Army Reserve. He and his wife, Janice, live on their farm in Adair County, Kentucky. They have three children and five wonderful grandchildren.

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Cover Art

Redbird, by Matthew Russell Lunsford

Sunflower and Lilly, by Scarlett Muriel Lunsford

Cover Photo Development by Christy Peterson

Cover Layout and typography by Heather Clark

ISBN: 978-1-6632-5585-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-5586-0 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 01/10/2024

For Janice

Contents

Acknowledgments

Nature

A Great Blue Heron

A Walk Across the Morning Meadow

Autumn Mist

Cedars

Day Break Canvas

Deer Camp

Ladybug

Mosquito

Run Fox Run

Tree

Farming

Crossroads

Death of a Farm

The Great Disturber of this Earth

The John Deere 60 Sitting in the Barn

Trying to be Worthy

What Tall Fescue Said to Orchard Grass

Faith

Faith

Grace

I Once Met This Man Named Jesus

Leaves Drifting from Above

Re-creation

Songs from Heaven

Take My Hand

The Thing About Dragons

When Your Sun Sets

You Can Trust that Billy Graham

Family

Billy Bob

Cookies

Get It

Goo’ Boy

Grandma’s Queen Elizabeth Rose

Happy Toys

I Found a Nickel

I Spit

I was Looking for that

Iron Men

Parents

That One, That’s My Grandson

They Should Have Done Better

Well, Well My Boy

Visit A Friend

What Does My Baby Dream

Love

Brown Eyes

Cheap

Hey, It’s Love

How Far is the Moon

In The Night

Never Far from My Heart

Sweetheart and My Love

The Vienna Waltz

What Manner of Love is this

Last Moments

I Know You

Now Where Did I Put That

Oh, Thank God, You’re Here to Take Me Home

Passing (It) On

The Last Moments

The Sooner I Become a Memory

What Hurts the Most

My Family’s Poems

Dear Arnon

Kentucky, My Bluegrass Mountain Home

Ode to my Grandparent’s Farm

Ode to my Bed

Acknowledgments

A special thanks to my lovely wife, Janice, for putting up with my need to write.

A special thanks to my grandchildren, Scarlett and Matthew, for their cover art work.

A special thanks to my children; Sharon, David and Tina, and grandchildren; Jesse, Jenna, Joshua, Scarlett and Matthew for providing me with great material.

A special thanks to Mary Popham for her poetic advice and Megan Hutchinson for her assistance