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My Mother's Poems by C. Gale Perkins
Welcome to my web-page. My name is C. Gale Perkins and I am the author of The Baby's Cross .
My mother wrote a poem for me when I was three years old. We were in different hospitals at the same time and both
of us had tuberculosis . My mom died a year later at the age of twenty-four when I was
four years old. She had tuberculosis of the lungs and I had tuberculosis of the bones.
My mother,Marjorie Logan-Wilson, wrote many other poems but this is the poem that I want to share with the
world at this time. I have received a lot of comfort from this poem and I have honored it by making it the title of my
book.
I have put the cover of my book on this page to add more to the poem. I am the little girl laying in the
crib facing my aunt Eunice. This photo was taken on my third birthday.
I would have a visitor each month; a tall thin woman, she was my Aunty Eunice, my Mother’s sister.
I asked her where my mother was and she said, “She is very sick”. Aunty
Eunice said that she would visit my mother following her visits with me and would tell her all about me. She told me I had Mom’s big brown eyes and her sweet singing voice.
She was like a messenger who would bring good news back and forth. I asked her if she would bring Mom someday when she got better. She promised
she would. She would give me a big hug and when she would leave, I would cry. I
missed her when she left - she was so nice and smelled so good and would make me laugh, but most of all it was her hugs. I
could not feel them too much on top of the plaster but I knew they would feel good.
The answer to all the questions that were in my mind were somewhat answered in the poem which is the title
of my book, “The Baby’s Cross,” written by my Mom. The poem was written after one of the visits to me and
then to my Mom, from Aunty Eunice, who had brought the message to her along with the picture.
THE BABY’S CROSS
Her big brown eyes twinkle roguishly.
(As they use to when she chased her cat.)
Oh dear, why did I think of that?
She asked for him today and wondered,
“Did her Saunders miss her while she was away?”
The kitten died but she never knew
The sorrows of childhood should be so few.
Yet-the cast extends from her sturdy shoulders to her knees
And, when one thinks of these,
and many other things,
How joyously she laughs, how sweet she sings.
Then when her little story of her wants are done,
She whispers, earnestly, “some
day I will run and run.
So far that nobody can catch me again.
With a sigh, your heavy heart whispers back-AMEN
By Marjorie-Logan-Willson to Gale 11/16/36
In
memory of Eunice’s visit to My Darling Gale
The Baby's Cross can be purchased through :
Authorhouse.com Barnes & Noble Fetchbook.com Amazon.com
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Books
by C. Gale Perkins
From
the Publisher
Transcending Time-poems
by an Angel- A legacy left by Marjorie Logan Willson to her two daughters Gale and Elaine also to other loved ones. Marjorie
knew she would not be around and yet the faith she presented in her poems...More
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Color
(8.5x8.5)
ISBN: 9781438943367
A Pumpkin for God
was inspired by my Granddaughter Keri, who was trying to accept her Grandfathers death and did it in such a beautiful way
that I felt it was a story that should be told...More
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Paperback
(6x9) - $17.75
ISBN: 9781410793683
The Baby’s
Cross- is a story about Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life to survive. She was born prematurely and
with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was...More
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Poems by an Angel
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by Marjorie Logan Willson,
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Read author Rachel Elaine's write-up below.
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MOM’S
TIMELESS TREASURES
Mother, wife and
poet, Marjorie Logan Willson’s life, cut short tragically in 1938, at the age of 24, during the tuberculosis epidemic
that swept through the country.
Among the gifts condensed into this young life
was that of notable insights realized far beyond her actual years, in conjunction with the rare ability to express that keen
sight in an ethereal cadence of distinctive poetry, retaining words and implications as relevant today as when they were penned
in the 1930s.
The poetry of Marjorie Logan Willson preserved through the
years by her two daughters, and organized, presented and published by daughter, C. Gale Perkins, author of The Baby’s Cross, who now shares a portion of her mother’s introspective reflections on various topics,
such as motherhood, love, nature, spirituality and faith, friendship, loss and more.
With depth,
brilliance, beauty, feeling, wit, understanding, perception, pith and inspiration, Transcending
Time is a remarkable legacy of timeless poetic treasures.
Rachel Elaine, author of Thoughts for Thought: Meditations, Musings and Poems for the Inner
Life, is also a book reviewer for Erv’s Book Reviews.
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C. Gale Perkins is very proud to be part of "On The Lake"
Production Notes of the documentary film
"On The Lake"
Click Here
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Below is a video of a Book signing
C. Gale Perkins did at Stonehedge.
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