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    Rhymes & Reflections
    Rhymes & Reflections
    Rhymes & Reflections
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    Rhymes & Reflections

    By Nellie Gray Canterbury

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    Nellie Gray Canterbury shares her poems reflecting many of the hurts and disappointments in her life. Having been faced with many obstacles she learned to salve her pain with humor and maintains that whatever happens, life goes on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocahontas Press
    Release dateAug 11, 2015
    Rhymes & Reflections
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    Nellie Gray Canterbury

    Nellie Gray Canterbury is an 80+ year old writer who writes books about the old days and poetry about what she is feeling.

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      Rhymes & Reflections - Nellie Gray Canterbury

      Rhymes

      &

      Reflections

      Nellie Grey Canterbury

      Copyright © 2014 by Nellie Grey Canterbury

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      The cover of this book reflects the natural beauty of West Virginia captured on film by Garnett Winfield Clinebell II from a farm in Mercer County.

      Designed by Joanna Johnson and Michael Abraham

      Published by Pocahontas Press, Blacksburg, Virginia

      ISBN-10 0-926487-73-6

      ISBN-13 978-0-926487-73-6

      CONTENTS

      THE LOUDEST ECHO

      LIFE

      LOVE

      A MOTHER’S PRAYER

      SEARCHING

      WHO

      DON’T GO

      MOM AND GOD

      Hearts Are Trumps

      TWO EQUALS NOTHING

      KIND REAPER

      Hairy

      THE GREATEST SOLDIER

      DAY DREAMS

      TRANQUILITY

      BEHIND THE SMILE

      PEN OF LIFE

      To a Parent

      To Paul

      PREMONITION

      THE INEVITABLE

      DAYBREAK

      BOUND

      I LOVE YOU, I MISS YOU

      REMINiSCING

      PUT CHRIST BACK IN CHRISTMAS

      MY GRANDMA WAS TRULY A LADY

      MY GRANDPA WILL

      I, WEST VIRGINIA

      JUNE MEETIN’

      COME SPRING

      About the Author

      Rhymes

      &

      Reflections

      THE LOUDEST ECHO

      The world stood still and men forgot

      race, color, creed, and political plot.

      Together we bowed our heads and wept as one,

      For the life of this great man erased by an

      assassin’s gun.

      Muffled drums mournfully beat,

      Horses’ hooves echoed down a tear-lined street,

      Followed by a simple wooden caisson,

      Bearing a silent flag draped form.

      A little child with an impish grin,

      A little boy, just like him,

      Before the White House stood straight and still,

      And silently saluted a last farewell.

      Though the world must turn on and on,

      From dusk to dawn to setting sun,

      Mournful

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