Gather: Poems from the Heart about Nature, Love, Loss, and Hope

To Our Beautiful Readers, These poems were written by my mother, Judith Rose, over a period of about 20 years. She didn't share them and we didn't read them ourselves until after her death in 1999. It took a long time for me to embrace her words because there is so very much of her in every poem. They range from happy high school memories, to simple little flowers budding for the first time, or tiny little crabs trying to navigate the ocean tide. It was how my mother saw the world in all of its glory and sadness. My hope is that as you read each poem you are moved and begin to also notice the small things that encompass your world and embrace them with love and understanding, the way my mother did. Thank you for helping to keep her precious memories alive and in doing so Judith Rose will continue on. With Love, Lisa Green