Strands of Memory Revisited

Strands of Memory Revisited - a collection of sweet and bittersweet memories that reveals the author's successes and failures dreams and fantasies strengths and weaknesses. It tells stories and draws word pictures celebrating life in more than 200 poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than 80 years. It commemorates people in his life especially family and friends and their loves friendships courage challenges and strengths. It talks about love family friendship work war nature life and death. This collection also sings the songs of his life and describes his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents events and the things that have troubled hurt and pleased the author his family and his friends. His hope is that the events and situations described in both rhyme and free verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences - in short that the poems will touch readers' hearts minds and souls.