Poetic Potpourri : a Collection of 101 Selected Poems for Your Reading Pleasure

This is a rather small selected collection of 101 poems written over the years covering various subjects that should be of interest to everyone. Anyone should be able to find a poem to his liking, as the poems are so varied and appeal to all age groups. I started writing in high school but there was a long hiatus due to time constraints taken up by medical schooling and the residency training years - leaving hardly any time for outside activities. I started writing again when I was stationed at Ft. Sill, OK, during the Desert Shield / Desert Storm conflict as part of my deployment while in the US Army Reserves. I was asked by the Editor of our Medical County Society's magazine - "Coastal Bend Medicine" to write something about my experience while still at Ft. Sill. I wrote an essay and decided to include a poem to go along with it - "The Citizen Soldier" - honoring our various services reservists. However, It's just been in the past few years that I have "rediscovered" my penchant for writing again - for my own enjoyment and to share with family and friends, and now with you. This is a rather small selected collection of 101 poems written over the years covering various subjects which should be of interest to everyone. Anyone should be able to find a poem to his liking, as the poems are so varied and appeal to all age groups. I started writing in high school but there was a long hiatus due to time constraints taken up by medical schooling and the residency training years - leaving hardly any time for outside activities. I started writing again when I was stationed at Ft. Sill, OK, during the Desert Shield / Desert Storm conflict as part of my deployment while in the US Army Reserves. I was asked by the Editor of our Medical County Society's magazine - "Coastal Bend Medicine" to write something about my experience while still at Ft. Sill. I wrote an essay and decided to include a poem to go along with it - "The Citizen Soldier" - honoring our various services reservists. However, It's just been in the past few years that I have "rediscovered" my penchant for writing again - for my own enjoyment and to share with family and friends, and now with you. Front Cover; Copyright; Index; Foreword; A Balancing Act; A Declaration of Love; A Love Lost; A New Beginning; A Reborn Christian; A Song just for You; A Stroll down Memory Lane; Age of innocence; Aging Gracefully; Alzheimer's Curse; At Rainbow's End; At the Crossroads; Bitter Sweet Friday; Bonsai Plants; Breaking Habits; Carpe Diem; Celestial Harmony; Change of Seasons; Circadian Rhythm Curse; Coming from Behind; Cycle of Blues; Dare to Dream; Death waits for No One; Destiny or Design; Dreaming to Catch Up; Embers; Emotionally Spent; Everyday is Mothers' Day; Evolution of my Pretty Girl Men from La ManchaMental Meltdown; More Food for the Soul; Mother's Love; My Family Tree; My Secret Memory Bank; Nature's Sight and Sound; Nightly visitors; No Rain, No Rainbow; Nostalgia of Old Carved Heart; Only Yesterday; Pathway to Success; Poppy; Pretty Green Eyes; Procrastination; Queen of My Heart; Running from Myself; Sartorial Sam; Searching for Patience; Serenity; Starry-Eyed; Sunday's Smiles; Sunny Skies Still; Sweet Memories; Tennis Match; That Certain Sixth Sense; The Bumper Sticker; The Citizen Soldier; The Day Time stood Still; The Devil at Work; The Magnificent Senses Father TimeFear of Losing You; Feeling Blue; Finally as One; Food for the Soul; Footprints; Friendship Limited; Fuel for Love; Goals and Obstacles; Goodbye, Insomnia; Happiness starts from Within; I Can't stop counting the Ways; I had to let you go; Improbable Love; In Search of the Meaning of Life; Just the Two of Us; Keep going I Must; Knocking on the Pearly Gates; Legacy; Letting go of Yesteryears; Life in Our Mortal Stage; Life in the Slower Lane; Life's Decision; Life's Simple Pleasures; Light at the end of the Tunnel; Look in the Mirror; Lost Theme; Meeting of the Eyes The Night -Shift NurseThe Prodigal son; The Sands of Time; The Shaking Malady; True Beauty from the Heart; True Friend; Two Faces; Two Hearts in One; Under a Fog; Vanishing Sight; What are Dreams made Of?; Words from the Heart; Worries and Dreams; Young Foolish Heart; Author's biography A potpourri of my selected 101 poems, written in rhyme and in free verse, ranging in subject from Inspirational to humorous, from Facts of Life to personal experiences, from Love to Death