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    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss: Poems and Reflections
    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss: Poems and Reflections
    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss: Poems and Reflections
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    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss: Poems and Reflections

    By Barbara Letts Blodgett

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    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss is a third collection of poems and reflections following Beach Grass and Light and Shadow. Nature and observations about people and human nature are frequent subjects of her writing. Poems included in this collection are about mangroves, egrets, doorways in France, rain, deer nibbling grass and apples, sailing, old and new friends, the breaking of day, and journeys. Some of the poems have the quality of a meditation, others of a story, inviting the reader in as onlooker, participant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 8, 2019
    ISBN9781796031966
    Tap Dancing Toward Bliss: Poems and Reflections
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    Barbara Letts Blodgett

    Barbara Letts Blodgett has been a speech therapist, conference planner, and pastoral counselor. She has served as a consultant and a staff member in three Episcopal Dioceses, most recently providing pastoral care for the clergy. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother of seven. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she lived for thirty-three years in Connecticut and for the past seventeen years in the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania. Now retired, she spends winters in Florida and summers in Pennsylvania. She loves travel, Jungian thought, mystical writings, and the simplicity of oriental art and poetry. Her first book of poetry, Beach Grass, began as a response to the beauty of the landscape in Pennsylvania and Martha’s Vineyard and, like this second volume, included observations about life and human nature and the ways in which, at heart, we are all alike.

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      Tap Dancing Toward Bliss - Barbara Letts Blodgett

      Copyright © 2019 by Barbara Letts Blodgett.

      ISBN:                Hardcover                    978-1-7960-3198-0

                               Softcover                     978-1-7960-3197-3

                               eBook                           978-1-7960-3196-6

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 05/07/2019

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      Contents

      PART I

      Reverie

      Mangroves

      Bucket Lists

      Egret

      Sailing!

      Doorways

      A Day of Long Rain

      Red Sky

      Renoir’s Olive Trees

      I Miss You Already

      Museum

      Departed

      Downpour

      Tap Dance

      Palm

      Treasure

      Transitions

      PART II

      Immersion

      Uncle Sam Wants You

      Peace

      What If?

      Reading Wendell Berry

      Be Here

      Haiku

      Rear-view Mirror

      Truth Telling

      Clawmarks

      Only Now

      What Interests Me

      Country Girl

      Remnants

      Visitors

      Evening with Friends

      Answers To Prayer

      Father-in-law

      PART III

      Break of Day

      Wake Up!

      Identity Crisis

      The Wait

      Perspective

      Satisfaction

      Puzzle

      French Bread

      Forgiveness

      Loaded

      The Dance

      A Question

      Old Friend

      Invitation

      Doe

      End of Day

      PART IV

      Up-Country

      A Life

      Beach Grass

      Bonnard

      Daughter

      Fever

      Stately Friends

      The Circle

      The St. Mary’s River

      Walking the Road

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      To Verne,

      my soul mate

      To David, my son,

      in gratitude for your

      encouragement, help and

      belief in the work.

      Part I

      Reverie

      Morning light,

      early Spring.

      The ceiling fan turns,

      lazily in motion.

      On the wall, dancing sun-shadows,

      yellow on café-au-lait,

      reveal a wisp of breeze

      caressing the trees.

      A gentle beginning to the day.

      Mangroves

      A morning walk on a path beside the mangroves,

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