The subjects of the poetry in this volume stem from the author’s life of working with children in schools, who always seem baffled about why the school and teachers do what they do and what are they trying to teach. Also, the author helped to raise two daughters who asked these same questions. The author found her inner thought beset with questions, even to the core her own identity. Later, after retiring from teaching and traveling the country helping people recover themselves after experiencing disasters, she was further intrigued by their parallel questioning of their core realities. The author, after experiencing people staring into the gray voids of apparent lack of meaning and terrific losses in their own lives, found herself writing about this in her poetry. After all, it was an expression of and pathway out of the terrible anxieties that beset so many.
Indian Paint Brushes Shade Wild Strawberries
by Charlotte T. Hathaway
Indian Paint Brushes Shade Wild Strawberries
by Charlotte T. Hathaway
Published Dec 17, 2020
195 Pages
Genre: POETRY / American / General
Book Details
Poetry of Love, Loss, Redemption, and Transformation
Life is full of dichotomies and inconsistencies that baffle the eternal human quest for clarity and understanding. Life presents innumerable twists and turns in how we view ourselves in relation to who and what we are in terms of our psychic and physical orientation within ourselves and to the world around us. As our minds seek the stability of the known and to make sense of seeming chaos, we may seek to let the divergence of our thoughts and understanding flow with the reality life presents us. In other words, our minds may seek the direct straight line between two points, or the distinctions of good and evil, or male and female. The realities of our existence belie this simplicity. Within such uncertainty, we may feel within anxiety, loss, and a resultant experience of grief. Or we may find ourselves intrigued by the blurring of the lines of what we thought was true. How many of us have experienced the sudden unsettling realization that what we thought might be true is actually not what we thought it was, at all?