Some Part of Yesterday
A memoir of poetry and prose
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OH,
Oh,
Country roads and purple mountains,
That climb up to reach the sun.
A place to wander, a place to dream,
Meadows that mingle with piney woods and tingled vine.
A world of ancient hearts that sing,
Of whispering memories and laughing spirits that
cling.
Blending, one into the other, against a foggy dawn.
Somehow, becoming wild and beautiful, within its mist.
Old red clay paths and swinging
bridges, hanging in the wind,
Worn by passing footsteps, that capture years gone by,
Now lost in the stillness of an eagle’s flight,
Forever caught in the web of your spell, a lingering sigh.
Pressed flowers and lost youth,
faded into dust,
Are like fragile petals, blown in the breeze.
Carried away at a journey’s end.
But, I will save one last Waltz for you,
Oh,
And leave behind my epitaph.
“I will leave you, to walk
through words of rhyme, and bits of prose, a charade of life and characters, I
would find. What great expectations”.
THE BEGINNING
And so it was,
that my family was separated with the death of my Mother.
In the year 1935, I was two years old, and placed with a Minister and his wife.
A decision that my Mother had made, while in the hospital.
Of course, my destiny was changed forever.
I would never really know my family, that I left behind,
Or feel the warmth of my Mother’s love again.
Yet there was something about my foster parents,
That would form a lasting bond, a lasting love.
I didn’t know then, that God had another plan for my life.
For the future was not mine to see or know.
I would learn of a mother’s sacrifice, and a father’s courage,
Through the eyes of my foster parents.
I would meet a lot of people along the way,
Some of which, I would remember for a life-time.
Childhood’s learning is made up of hours and days spent,
Turned into years of revelation.
We were moving to
My dreams, my thoughts, would soon fill my life with poetic vision.
That would forever haunt my life.
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A Memoir of Prose and Poetry
By
Clarice Lawson Davis
From the Great Depression, through her early years of growing up,
Comes the story of this writer's life.
With a vivid poetic description, she creates this evocative volume of poetry.
With deep colors of people and places, exploring memories of
the past, and beyond.
That will make this book so unique.
Indeed, a Masterpiece to read.
“Prose takes you there,
The poetry leaves you there.”
About the Author
Clarice Lawson Davis was born
She retuned to her native state of West Virginia in 1947, where she was
graduated From High School, later she majored in Journalism at Marshall
University. Her First book of Poetry entitled, “THE MEADOWS”, was published in
1974. Her poetry was selected to appear in AMERICA AT THE MILLENNIUM, also, THE
BEST POEMS & POETS of2000, and entered into The Library Of
Congress.
In Some Part Of Yesterday , is anthology of
other poems she has written. Of the past and of the present
of fond remembrance. As told in poetry. Ms. Davis is writing full time,
and a member of The Academy of American Poets.
She was married to the late Vincent M. Davis, and the mother of three
sons.
She lives and works in