Contained within the pages of After the Rain you will find poems of faith and inspiration, poems based on self-analysis, family, love, and humorous verses included to lighten your spirits. Ruth's poetry is often rhyming, lyrical, or free and easy as she uses a varied application of form. From Part 1, Sonlight, poems such as The Hiding Place which begins: There is no earthly hiding place where thy love cannot shine. We cannot sneak away and hide for all the world is thine. reflect her faith and realization that God is everywhere and all knowing. From Part 2, Meridian, her haiku show the...

Contained within the pages of Here on My Knees you will find poems of faith and inspiration in Section 1, A Growing Faith, and in Section 2, This Man Called Jesus. In Section 3, Penny Poetry, are poems based on family, love, everyday happenings with a few humorous verses included to lighten your spirits. Ruth's poetry is often rhyming and lyrical and always heartfelt. Ruth's poems reflect her faith and realization that God is worthy of praise and faithful to hear our prayers. Also in evidence is her sensitivity to everyday events, her love of family, and the knowledge that happiness and...

Have you ever felt uncertain, alone, without courage, and shaken in your beliefs? Have you found comfort in the advice of friends, or in the inspirational or spiritual words of a poem? Words from a friend or a favorite book can help, can give us back our courage and faith, can help us to understand and to hurt less, can show us that we are not the first, nor the last, to experience such feelings. This book brings Ruth's own faith, commitment and hopeful attitude to others. All There Is will enlighten, uplift, and encourage its readers. The author comments: "Most of my previous books of poetry...

The poems in "Idle Thoughts" are presented with special thanks to the Poem of the Day Yahoo group where George Smith helps get our creative juices flowing each April and November by sharing daily poetry prompts from Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides blog ( http: //blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides) . Without his help, I would write very little and spend all my time quilting or playing games on my Kindle. As I have mentioned in other notes, I am not a driven poet, but a driven quilter and part time poet Included here are personal reflections, thoughts on writing, the world around us, and a...