Whispers of the Soul

<p>WHISPERS OF THE SOUL</p><p>          ...SOMETIMES GENTLE</p><p>                    ...SOMETIMES FIERCE</p><p><br></p><p>A collection of poems that range from expressions of gratitude for the gifts of nature to musings about aging and the fragility of life to insights about women's issues and concerns to observations about the complexities of family dynamics to reflections about writing and therapy.  </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p>Spindrift </p><p>Leftovers </p><p>Two Sides </p><p>An Old Story </p><p>Therapy? </p><p>For Elizabeth </p><p>A Lesson Learned </p><p>Sunday Morning Song at a Small Chapel </p><p>The Interview </p><p>Does it Still Bother You? He Asks </p><p>A Morning in Arizona </p><p>Neglecting the Feminine </p><p>Or Else </p><p>Options </p><p>A Day </p><p>Why </p><p>Early Morning </p><p>Kindness </p><p>Two Daughters </p><p>Enough? </p><p>A Woman's Way </p><p>Turning Fifty </p><p>Living with Breast Cancer </p><p>A Cautionary Tale </p><p>A Young Boy </p><p>A New Year </p><p>A Dream of Becoming </p><p>Age Spots </p><p>For Linda </p><p>Easter </p><p>Ordinary Time </p><p>Drawing a Rune: Protection Reversed </p><p>The New Year </p><p>Cold </p><p>The Search </p><p>The Patriarchy </p><p>Dream Words </p><p>Me and the Grands </p><p>Warnings </p><p>What Will It Take? </p><p>Violation According to Margeaux </p><p>Words </p><p>A Gathering of Women </p><p>Little Deaths </p><p>They Call it Transference </p><p>Flattened </p><p>Choices </p><p>A Little Too Close </p><p>How Many? </p><p>Full </p><p>Speaking of Fairy Godmothers </p><p>Reasonable Limits </p><p>Soul Play </p><p>An Inner Guide </p><p>The Cancer of Silence </p><p>Getting a Mammogram </p><p>Writing </p><p>A Woman of the Patriarchy </p><p>Wording the Process </p><p>December </p><p>The Seduction of Order </p><p>Green for Healing </p><p>The Web </p><p>Rich </p><p>The Journey </p>