What Women Know

By Mykle LydiaLynn McClure

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453532881

Mykle LydiaLynn McClure

Mykle LydiaLynn McClure has been writing poetry since she was a very young girl in her home state, Iowa. In 1963, she and her parents moved from Iowa to California. She returned to Iowa in 1967, where she married her high school sweetheart. They returned to California in 1969 and made their home in the Central Valley and then in the Upper Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest. It was 1994, when she took a Creative Writing class at a community college in Ridgecrest, that she began to write in earnest. She currently resides in the California foothills near a life-long friend who is just one of the women you will find in this poetry. She continues to write, though the majority of these were poems were written between 1994 and 2004 when her father passed away. Sometimes life's greatest challenges can inspire creativity and sometimes it can block the flow. The past six years have been years of drought, but recently there has been a slow trickle of words crying out for form. Perhaps the future will offer the opportunity of sharing more abstract and concrete thoughts with those of you who are meeting her in these pages.

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Contents

Introduction

Created

Where I Grew Up

Wild Thing

Shades of Green

Chocolate Therapy

Alive!

Romance Novels

Identity or Idyll

Music’s Magic

Dreams

Feelings

Fire and Light

My Life Is My Own

I Am Waiting

Life Goes On

I Turned a Corner

Treasure

What Will Be Left

Overboard

You’re Not Alone

Not a Nympho

Trust Misplaced

Beware of Fantasies

My Shadow

Biding My Time

On the Way to Separate Lives

Dissed

Killer Moon

Quiet

How Long

Broken Promises

Masks

Why the Endless Tears

Points of No Return

Blue Scar

Unknowable

I Cannot Believe

What Love Is

Solitude

Isolation

Lost Soul

Solace

Connected

The Closing Door

Ringless

No Direction

Awareness

What I Seek

What Friendship Means

Mourning Light

My Claim

Blessings

On The Wind

My Mirror

Truth

No Pizzazz

Obits

October

Plagued

Noise

The Spool

Tapestry

The Unspoken

What Women Know

The Woman Within

Words

Golden Rays

What You See

A Society

Dori’s Dance

Suzanne

Jodi

Sally

Miss Maggie

Theresa

Zada’s Eyes

Gypsy Heart

My Mother’s Hands

Kelleen

Maddie

The End is a Circle

Biographic Sketch

This book is dedicated to all the women I know,

who taught me what I know about love and friendship.

And with a grateful heart to Mum, Kelleen, Kevin

and Jim for all their love and support.

Introduction

On these pages you will get a glimpse of who I am. You may find some aspects of how I describe myself and my thoughts to be very abstract, such as Created, Blue Scar and Tapestry.

Some poems are expressed in more concrete terms, as I muse about everyday life. Occasionally these poems are side by side as I find my mind flows readily from the abstract to concrete, minute by minute.

My poems progress from childhood into young adulthood, motherhood and the painful world of lost love and depression. With the help of my family and friends, I healed and grew. Questions about life and love have not ceased, but they reflect the more secure person I am becoming. I do not believe we fully understand who we are until we meet The Creator again.

I am so very pleased and honored that you have chosen to spend some time with me. I hope you find in these pages someone with whom you are happy to have spent a portion of your allotted time . . .

Created

I am older than old Mother Earth