Poems by a Texas Flower

By Roberta

I was born in the hill country in a small town in Texas. My mother was Dutch/French and my father was French. My mother was a very Christian lady and brought me up to love the Lord and to go to church each time the doors opened. At the age of twelve my grandmother moved in with us and this prompted us to move closer to an area closer to medical resources. We moved to a little town called Uvalde, forty miles southwest of our home town. This time was a very difficult time in my life as I did know anyone and it was very hard adjusting. As the years went by I grew up and became a young lady and met a soldier that was enlisted in World War II. The ladies in the area were encouraged to entertain the soldiers as they were far away from home. I met my future husband in church and were later married and moved away from my beloved Texas to a small town in North Carolina. My husband and I raised a large family (ten children) and worked very hard on the farm. I worked very long hard days on the farm by my husband's side. When five of our children grew up and moved away and my family was smaller I found employment as a seamstress in a sewing factory. In 1967, my husband and I with the remaining five children moved from our little farm on an old loop road into a beautiful new home on a major highway. I felt like the country mouse moving to the city. Things were better on farm and my life was more comfortable. The children enrolled in vacation bible school each summer where they would learn to paint-by-numbers. I would dabble with the paint they did not use and I fell in love with the colors as they could be mixed and become something that I had never seen. My work at the sewing factory was very monotonous and repetitive so I would find myself composing poems in my mind to keep from falling asleep at the sewing machine. During this time I composed, "You can't go back again, Children of the Street, and Farmer Retired." At the age of 59 I started going to classes at night a

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478758252
• ISBN13: 9781478758259
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"