Life is filled with memorable moments of victory, defeat, euphoria, calamity, great success or great failure. Many express these moments in a meaningful way to help others avoid the harm, or accentuate the blessings, which our own moments have caused in our lives. We are all connected if not physically or emotionally then certainly spiritually through the deeper resonance of life’s events. We all have moments. What you are holding are the moments of an only son of an only son from the Deep South. These are the moments lived by a journalist of great and abiding Christian faith living life in an ever expanding secular world. These are the moments lived by a father of five from an extended family home now living in a world becoming  void of family at all. These are moments recorded in the storm of life we all hope to not only survive but make our own stamp upon. These are the first poems of a collection of poems compiled over time. My name is Jerry M. White and these are...

 Moments of Mine.

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This is my first publishing effort but certainly not my last. The Moments of Mine project has been a twenty-year effort of love and therapy. It has been a compulsion to express my intersection with daily events or life struggles in a poetic form. I began taking my efforts more seriously during my High School teaching years. I would broadcast a faculty email two to three times per week containing a poem on subjects ranging from societal events to personal experiences. Through these emails a member of our English department suggested I publish my poems. I began submitting them to publications and journals with some success and developed, with the help of my colleague, the format you will find in Moments of Mine. On one page is the inspiration of the poem and on the facing page is the poem in its completed form.

The decision on which poems to include was agonizing. It was similar to the question “which of your children do like most.” Unfair as it was to select the poems included it is now done and in a completed form. My next book is already being completed which was merely selecting more of my favorites, as unfair as that process is to an author, and putting them together in the same way Moments of Mine was completed.

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