The Final Hike and The Soul at Bay
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WISH FOR TOMORROW
Farewell today
Hello tomorrow
I hope you bring day
When life, again,
Seems rare and beautiful
Too many now
Are hidden in the shadows
Of uneasiness and doubt
When I cannot see
Beyond the inevitable
It is not to hope
That nature will change her ways
But that I can accept life
As it is
And rejoice
With the knowledge
That every minute
I can fill
With the love of being
And the beauty
Of this precious life
Makes whatever may come after
Just a small payment
For the priceless bargain
I have received
For my brief stay
In the light
Of living
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About the Book
In The Final Hike Rod Grant draws on his long and varied experience to explore nature, life and death and the fate of man in his lyrical and moving style. In his poem The Final Hike from which the title of the book is taken, he describes the last of his annual April 5 pilgrimages to the Dungeness Spit.
In the Soul at Bay he draws on his early work to describe the anguish of a young man facing the challenges of life and his own frailties in powerful and insightful verse.
About the Author
Rod Grant is a philosopher, artist and world traveler. After receiving a degree in philosophy from the University of California, he pursued a career in the Foreign Service with assignments in Europe, Asia and the United States. He retired to the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington with its mountains, forests, rivers and sea from which he draws inspiration for his poems. He now lives in a retirement community in northern Virginia. He brings a lifetime of experience, contemplation and wisdom to he carefully crafted verse.