Caressing Me as I Grow Old!

Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate

Description

Caressing Me As I Grow Old! Is a book of poetry written as the author was facing the turmoil of the Covid Virus and in the process was realizing that she was getting older where she no longer could travel or most of the time even walk without a cane. She informed her family and friends that she had been through a lot in life and did not want to be stricken by the virus and facing death. The poetry in this book reflects the author’s concerns and her desire to have an effective vaccination avail-able to mankind, which did eventually come.

Sujets

• Poetry
• Virus

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 10 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665564069
• Langue: English

Extrait

Caressing Me As I Grow Old!
 
Poetry from before 2018 and on . . . written mostly during the Covid Pand emic
in consecutive o rder
by
 
 
 
Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Lud gate
 
 
 
© 2022 Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate. All rights reserved.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6655-6405-2 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6404-5 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6406-9 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022912319
 
Published by AuthorHouse 08/05/2022
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
“It is the world that caresses me more and more as I grow o lder.”
Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Lud gate
Dedication
This book of poetry is dedicated to all of the relatives and friends who waited along with the author Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate for a vaccination to be available against the Covid Virus. It was a long wait and was not over yet once this book of poetry was published. The author and her relatives and friends have now gone through the second booster shot and there is still no light at the end of this enormously mountainous tunnel. In the meantime, the author grew older, no longer being able to travel; at times, even to walk without a cane.
Contents
Before 2018
From the 1960 Family Diary
Poetic Inspiration
Whispers of Festivities
At the Edge of Forever
The Pageant of Fall
I Went to School
Once There Were
2018
What Is Winter?
Let the Wind Blow
Old Mother No More
2019
No Flowers Yet
The Need of Flowers
I Am Not a Witch
Do I Have Witchcraft?
I Talk to the Birds
Is It Still Winter?
Time Change
Driver’s License Renewal
Robotic Vision
It Never Comes in Ones
I Had Lost a Friend
Sadness
Spring
Four Little Swans
Hand in Hand
Is It Time to Check Out?
If There Is No God . . .
We Are Isolated
And So I Say Farewell
A mera
Amera’ s Return
Season Change
Summer Has Gone
The Day We Lost Was Sunday
And the Sea Was Churning
Is the Sea Less Churning?
2020
He Walks Silently
It Is Not Known
What Is It You Want?
Is Rain Coming?
This Beautiful World
Where Is Winter?
It Is a Pity
It Is So Beautiful
I Just Cannot Die
It Is There
Could It Be That . . . ?
What Is That?
Who Won?
I Have to Ask
Why?
Are We Forgetting Spring?
The World
Silence
Are We Too Late?
There Is Fear
Some Cheerfulness is Needed
They Are Not Affected
My Dear Friend
The Cat
Pussy Willow
Is There Going to Be Any Hope?
Death Is At the Door
Still Sitting in Our Homes
My Husband and His Cat
I Wish
The Child
The Only Safe Place
Oh, How I Wish
The Paint Kit
Her Birthday
A Bit of Good News
Courting in May
Fog
The Stellar Jay
May Rains
My Car
Going Nowhere
The Ocean So Blue
The Bridge
I Ventured Out
A Cat
Changes to a New Norm
2020
My Nose Was Broken
The Magnolias
Two Horses and One Donkey
We Are Getting Old
Blooming Magnolias
It Is Only One
Every Day of the Calendar
My Friends Are Getting Old
A Giant
I Saw a Hubble Documentary
I Died
Wildfires
I Went Berry Picking
Getting It Right
I Sit On an Old Bench
The Chapel
Nine Months
There Are No More Words
We won!
Vaccination
The Answer Is Here
Finally
Changes
I am Old Now
Ill
The Stellar Jay One More Time
Let Us Hope
Books by the Author
Before 2018
From the 1960 Family Diary
The New Year had come
With dogs fighting.
Teddy was banned to the cellar,
Caesar licked his wounded paw,
And with a wreath around his neck,
He also was banned from the house.
But Butch that dear animal
Was allowed to sleep with Dad
On the living room couch.

(From the 1960 Family Diary, entitled, “Das Neue Jahr
ward eingebracht.” The New Year Started.)
Poetic Inspiration
Slumbering dream
Of internal peace,
Where mind and poetry
Merge
On a far-off
Lyrical stage.

Music underscores
The source of peace;
A shepherd hut.
There life’s shadow-plays
Dwell
In gentle symphony,
And ancient ideals
Of pastoral tranquility
And truth of life
Reveal themselves
To the poet,
No longer in search.
(Originally published In The Poetry S hell ,
Spring 1984.)
Whispers of Festivities
The crispness of air
That brushed against my face
Early this morning,
Rode upon the wings
Of autumn’s first rains.

Touches of a fire
And ripeness in the fields
Filled the air with whispers
Of festivities to come.
(Originally published In The Poetry S hell ,
Autumn 1984.)
At the Edge of Forever
As I stand at the edge of forever
The stars guide me on a journey
Beyond all time barriers,
Allowing me glimpses of the essence
Of all things that were and are
And ever will be.

(Originally published In The Poetry S hell ,
Autumn 1984.)
The Pageant of Fall
A gentle breeze,
At first it seemed,
Caressed the world
In summer glow,
But then a crested ocean
Tossed its waves
On rocky shores
And brought along
A wind that blew
A crisper air
Across the land.

Trees decked in
Shimm’ring gold
Send quiv’ring leaves
In kaleidoscopic fall
To colder grounds.
The pageant had begun
Where nature goes to rest
In dreams of million
Leaves and blooms
When gentle breezes
Once again
Ride on calmer seas.
(Originally published In The Poetry S hell ,
Winter 1987—1988.)
I Went to School
I went to school
Some far off time
In a far-off land.
I changed a lot,
Growing older every day.
The school I visited
A year ago or so
Stayed much the same.
Only a few trees had grown
Standing around it.

That was all.