Diary of Love Poems (Gramma Larson Remembers)

By Raymond Wolf

Diary of Love Poems is the second book of the Gramma Larson Remembers series. It is a love story that began on a bus in 1956. It continued until her husband Ivar passed away thirty-one years later on January 21, 1988. However, Helen's love for Ivar did not end then. It carried on for another seventeen years until she left to meet him on May 18, 2005. "As I go to sleep and this poem closes my book to you, I will be dreaming of meeting my love Ivar, my son Paul, Jesus, and Elvis you too." Helen O. Larson was born October 24, 1910 and brought up in a small New England village named Rockland. It was subsequently destroyed in the 1920s to build the Scituate Reservoir. Forced to leave their farm, her family relocated to the village of Hope. Later she married, had two sons, and then divorced. In 1956 she met Ivar E. Larson, the driver of the Pawtuxet Valley Bus line. He drove the bus she would travel on to her house cleaning jobs. One spring morning as they were talking she expressed she really did not want to go to work. His reply was, don't go. She in turn replied she had to. Her husband had left her and she had to provide for her two sons. He mentioned his wife had left him also. And so began a love story. Helen tells her story in poems of how much she loved Ivar, how much she missed him, and how she prayed he would return, knowing all along it could never be. Included are a mixture of over 40 photographs and documents with captions. Her son, Raymond A. Wolf, has sprinkled verses of her poetry in his books: The Lost Villages of Scituate, The Scituate Reservoir, Foster, West Warwick, Pawtuxet Valley Villages, and Coventry all part of the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing. The Gramma Larson Remembers series, including The Lost Village of Rockland, features Helen O. Larson's poems in their entirety. Although she passed away in 2005, in her 94th year, her memory lives on through her poetry. Wolf Publishing is proud to make her work available to everyone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496048628
• ISBN13: 9781496048622
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.4" x 6.7"