All About Love: Poems

By Pat Morrell-Donnelly

“All About Love” is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s ninth book to publish. It contains two hundred twenty poems on different subjects. Each poem contains the word “love.” Many are motivational and inspirational type poems. Some tell about life and about life’s struggles and challenges that Pat has experienced. They tell about the love of God, Agape love, love of parents, love of nature, love of country, and different kinds of love. Most have a positive ending. Reading the poems will take one away a bit from the vicissitudes of life.
Pat believes she has been given a gift from God that puts these poems in her mind. Perhaps some of the thoughts also come from being on this earth ninety four years. Many of the poems were written in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties and all through the years that followed. They portray some of the difficulties Pat experienced through out her life.
The poems tell about different hardships, problems, losses and heartbreaks Pat suffered. Many times she is awakened in the night with thoughts going round in her head. She jots down or scribbles the thoughts on a pad next to her bed and deciphers the scribbling the following morning. She has also written many poems while under the hair dryer.
The book also contains a short story “The Faded Photograph.” It is a great love story Pat wrote about a special couple she knew. The lady was originally from England.
A second short story called “Unfinished” is about her mother who was killed by a drunk driver when her mother was forty five years of age. A beautiful life snuffed out prematurely.
Pat worked all her life since age fourteen. She “made it” as the saying goes, and then “lost it all.” She was very successful at one point, but from wrong choices and decisions she lost all the material possessions she had attained over her lifetime.
Pat realizes her poems are not everyone’s “cup of tea.” She appreciates that many have purchased her books and say they love her poems. They speak to just what that person needs at the time. Their spirit is lifted. She shares her life’s experiences through her poetry. If Pat’s poems can offer a bit of pleasure to any individual then the effort to put this book together and get it published will have been worth it all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823010528

Pat Morrell-Donnelly

After working over fifty one years in the real estate industry as a Realtor and real estate Broker in the Bay Area near San Francisco Pat has had time to publish three books in three consecutive years. “Honoring” is her fourth book. “The Climb Up Life’s Mountain” published in 2009, 122 motivational and inspirational poems. “Poems For Conservatives” in 2010, political and patriotic poems. It includes cards and letters from three past Presidents and one First Lady in response to poems Pat has written for them. And “My Journey As A Realtor” in 2011, about her vast and varied experiences and the changes in technology through the years working in the real estate profession. Pat has written over 1400 poems over the last thirty five years. She writes personalized poems about people’s lives. She has had over thirty poems read at Funerals and Memorial Services. Pat has written poems for a Governor, U. S. Senator, U. S. Congressman, a Secretary of State, and three Georgia Representatives. Born and raised during the 1930’s depression for the first fourteen years of her life there was no inside plumbing, no electricity, no running water in her family's home. At the age of fourteen she worked at a cake and cookie factory part time and attended school part time. Graduating High School at age sixteen she worked full time at various jobs including her fifty one year real estate career from then on until 2007. Pat loves writing poems expressing her thoughts in rhyme. Writing is something she must do. Thoughts wake her up in the night and she has a pen and paper on her night stand, scratching out her thoughts, deciphering them later. She feels writing may be her purpose for being on this earth. Pat has also started work on her fifth book. She realizes at her age, “Time is of the essence.” Pat has been blessed with a loving family and friends and wishes to honor them with her “Honoring” book.

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Published by AuthorHouse  07/24/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1051-1 (sc)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pat Morrell-Donnelly was born in Texas and raised during the 1930’s depression era. Her family had little in the way of material things. There was no indoor plumbing, running water or electricity. The toilet (out-house) was out behind the back of the house. There was no telephone in the home.

Pat’s family was very close. Pat, her parents, and three siblings spent much time with her paternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

In 1943 Pat’s family moved to California. Pat was fourteen. She immediately found a job at a cake and cookie factory working four hours a day, attending school four hours a day. During the war, World War II, most anyone could find a job.

After graduating High School at age sixteen Pat was able to work full time. There was no money for college. In those days people understood if they wanted something monetarily in life you went out and worked for it. There was no welfare and no give away programs. No free lunch.

After working various jobs such as office work, modeling in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Pat worked fifty one years in the real estate profession in the Bay Area of Northern California. She received her Brokers’s license in 1964, and opened her brokerage office in1965.

Pat holds the unique distinction of being the only member of S.A.C.B.O.R, her real estate board, to be honored Miss Realtor in a contest in 1960.

Pat has had articles and poems published in the RealToro Magazine, SACAR Realtor Guide, SACBOR TODAY, all real estate publications.

Starting with nothing but hard work, some knowledge, and OPM (It’s called other people’s money) borrowing on one property to purchase another Pat was able to acquire twenty eight rental units. In the nineteen nineties, because of the real estate down turn in California, she lost it all. She got upside down in her properties owing more than they were worth. At that point in Pat’s life it was too late to make it all over again.

Pat published eight books in fourteen years. Her first book, The Climb Up Life’s Mountain was published when Pat was eighty years of age in 2009. Then the following seven books published in sequence. Poems For Conservatives, My Journey As A Realtor, Honoring, Poetry Breathes Life Into Bible Characters. Poems And Stories About Cats and Dogs and Various Critters, The Best For Last, and Poems For Conservatives. Volume 2. Her ninth book, All About Love poems.

Pat writes Personalized Poetry about people’s lives. She has written over 1800 poems. Patriotic, political, religious, motivational, inspirational.

Over forty five of Pat’s poems have been read at memorial and funeral services and used in church bulletins.

Pat has had thank you responses to her poems from Queen of England, four U.S. Presidents, two First Ladies, and other dignitaries.

Pat has written poems for and about a Governor, a U. S. Senator, four U. S. Congressmen and two Georgia Representatives. Also, for businesses and restaurant chains.

Pat was baptized at age eleven and is a member of the Church of Christ.

CONTENTS

THE FADED PHOTOGRAPH

ABOUT LIFE

A CELEBRATION

AGE SEVENTY SEVEN

AGING

A LITTLE ONE’S PRAYER

A MOTHER’S LOVE

A NEW SONG

ALONE

ARE YOU THERE LORD?

ASK

A STORYBOOK PARADE

A TEST

AWAKEN

A WEDDING ODE

BE

BEN AND LYNNE

BEST OF SHOWS

BIRTHRIGHT

BLESSED

BLIND LOVE

BUILDER

BURDENS

CALL ME A DREAMER

CELEBRATION

CHANGE

CHANGES

CHECKING OUT

CHILD OF GOD

CHRISTMAS MEMORIES

COUNTRY

DANCED

DAY DREAMING

DEAREST LOVED ONES

DEAREST MOTHER AND DADDY,

DEDICATED TO JOANNE

DESPERATION

DIFFICULT CLIMB

DON’T WAIT TILL TOMORROW

DO OVER

EARTHLY REALISM’S

EMOTIONS

ENJOY SPRING

EQUIP

EVERY DAY SHOULD BE THANKSGIVING

EXAMPLE

EXPERIENCE

FAILURE’S GRIP

FAITH HOPE AND LOVE

FALL

FAMILIES

FAMILY

FIGHT ON

FINAL PAGE

FLEE

FOREVERMORE

FOR THE YOUNG

FORWARD

GATHERING MEMORIES

GELATO

GIFT OF LIFE

GIFTS

GIFTS FROM GOD

GIVE ME MUSIC

GIVING THANKS

GOD BLESS LITTLE CHILDREN

GOD MUST THINK I’M SPECIAL

GOD OF HAPPINESS

GOD’S CREATION

GOD’S GIFTS

GOD’S HANDS

GOD’S PLAN

GOD’S TEAM

GONE

GOODBYES

GOOD THINGS

GREATEST GIFT

HAND IN HAND

HAPPINESS

HAVE A GOOD DAY

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR HUG TODAY?

HEART OF MANY COLORS

HEAVEN MY HOME

HEAVEN’S GOLDEN GATE

HIS DREAM

HIS WORD

HOLIDAY THOUGHTS

HOLY SPIRIT

HOME

HOMECOMING

HONORING MY FATHER

HOW COULD WE KNOW

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

I CAN

IF HOUSES COULD TALK

IF ONLY

ILLUSION

ILLUSIVE HAPPINESS

IMAGINE

I’M GOING TO LIVE IN LOVE

IN MEMORY OF ELSIE

IN MY LIFE

I WISH YOU LOVE

JOY

JUST A LITTLE LOVE

JUST BECAUSE

JUST MAKE THE BEST

JUST THOUGHTS

KEEP PRAYING

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE

LIFE

LIFE IS HARD

LIFE IS JUST WHAT IT IS

LIFE’S JOURNEY

LIFE’S TRIALS

LIFE’S TRUTHS

LIFE’S WALK

LIVING FREE

LOOK

LOOK BEYOND

LOOK TO THE CROSS

LOST LOVE

LOVE

LYNNE’S PUPPY LOVE

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

MARRIAGE

MCDONALDS

MEMORIES

MEMORY LANE

MONEY

MOTHER

MOTHER B.

MOTHER BABE

UNFINISHED

MUSIC

MY BEST FRIEND

MY HEART

MY JOURNEY

MY LIFE

MY LIFE MATTERS

MY MORNING PRAYER

MY NEW FRIEND HAZEL

MY QUEST

MY SISTER

MY THEME

NEVER

NEW

NEW SEASONS

NO CHARGE

NO MATTER

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

OH CHRISTMAS TREE

OLD FOLKS

ONCE UPON A TIME

ONE MORE DANCE

ONE MORE DECEMBER

ONE STEP

OUR INHERITANCE

OUR WANING DAYS

OVER THE CREST

PASS IT ON

PEARLY GATE

PEOPLE BUILDERS

PERSEVERE

PRAYER

PRAYER FOR AMERICA

PRECIOUS MEMORIES

REALITY

RECIPIENTS

REVEAL

ROSES

SECRET GARDEN

SHE TRIED

SOMEWHERE BEYOND

SPECIAL LOVE

SPRING’S GIFTS

STOP

STORY BOOK MARRIAGE

STREET OF DREAMS

STRENGTH THROUGH ADVERSITY

STRENGTH TO WIN

SWEET BY AND BY

SWEET CODY

TASTE

TAKING TIME

TEXAS

THANKFUL

THANKS-GIVING TIME

THAT’S WHAT YOU THINK

THE DOOR

THE FAIR

THE GOOD LIFE

THE GREATEST GIFT

THE HEART

THE JOURNEY

THE JOY OF WRITING

THE REASON

THE THIEF

THE WAY

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

THOUGHTS ON MICHAEL JACKSON MANIA

TIME FOR HAPPINESS

THOUGHTS AND CONCLUSIONS IN THE NIGHT

THOUGHTS ARE THINGS

TODAY TOMORROW AND ALWAYS

TO MY DADDY

TREASURES

TRUE FRIENDS

YOUR CUP

YOUR DESTINY

WAGON TAILS TO YOU

WALKING

WALKING WITH GOD

WASTED YEARS

WAY BACK WHEN

WHAT IS LIFE?

WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN

WHO SAID LIFE IS FAIR?

WHY NOT?

WHY OH WHY

WILL

WORDS

FINAL THOUGHTS

THE FADED PHOTOGRAPH

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The faded photograph on the wall by the kitchen sink has hung there many, many years. It is so faded even young eyes can scarcely make it out. But to the one left behind whose eyes have grown dim, it remains as clear as the day it was placed there.

To Elsie the faded remains are still clear and vivid. This is a picture of her great love, the love that still remains in her heart, the love of her life. It brings back memories of little things, cherished things and special thoughts. Thoughts of the love he had shown her from their first meeting, from the very start of their relationship.

Time and no one can take away the memories she has of him. The happy times and even the struggles they knew together remain in her memory. The gleam in his eye, the gentleness of his love and the extra little things he used to do for her. Their quiet conversations and how he made her smile. Thoughtful, he was always so very thoughtful of her. He seemed to know her needs even before she could express them.

Though he is gone his voice still echoes in her head, and she can hear his voice speak his love for her. She often sits quietly and dreams of him. She recalls how they would sit together and enjoy a spot of tea. Time cannot erase the happiness they shared.

At times they would take a walk, holding hands. Occasionally he would stop a second to kiss her lightly on the cheek. How blessed to have known this great love.

The faded photo on the wall by the kitchen sink

So faded hardly visible to the youngest eyes

But to the one left alone left behind

His face shines bright, even death can’t break their ties.

True love unselfish freely given

Words spoken only gentle, loving and kind

Leaving a peace that passeth understating

To the loved one left alone left behind.

Why can’t it be why can’t people see

How short life is how much better for us to give

Our love our patience our understanding

Although we die our deeds forever live.

ABOUT LIFE

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WHAT IS LIFE SHE PONDERED

IS IT JUST A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME?

A CHANCE TASTE OF HAPPINESS

A LADDER OF SUCCESS TO CLIMB?

THE LOVE FOR A PARENT OR CHILDREN

THE KINDNESS OF A FRIEND

LOSS OF A LOVED ONE A BROKEN VOW

A HEART THAT’S ON THE MEND?

THE PARTNERSHIP IN A MARRIAGE

WHICH SUSTAINS AND ADDS TO ONE’S LIFE

A GROWING PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP

THAT COMFORTS AND LESSONS STRIFE?

A FEELING OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

WORKING AND ATTAINING A GOAL

STRIVING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

WITH EACH DAY TAKING ITS TOLL?

WHAT EVER IT IS LIFE IS SHORT

BRIEF THEN GONE WITH