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The Baby's Cross, The Baby's Cross by C. Gale Perkins
The Baby's Cross
by C. Gale Perkins
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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-Willson, 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.
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
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You can order a copy of "The Baby's Cross" here.
The Baby's Cross
by
C. Gale Perkins
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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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This is the first copy that was sent to me by the publisher after I approved it. I hope you
order a copy...... Gale
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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The
Baby's Cross
by C. Gale Perkins
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| Transcending Time
Poems by an Angel
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by Marjorie Logan Willson,
Presented
by: C. Gale Perkins |
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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.
C. Gale Perkins and a Hospital friend named
Berney, that hadn't seen each other for 56 years, talk about their time at The Lakeville State Hospital
on WBET 1460 Welcome
to Conversations Talk
Radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXN-ds90n2k
*************** 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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