Katherine J. Ison Wedgefield, South Carolina

I started writing little ditties to my husband in the early seventies and have been writing ever since. Currently I am a house wife and mother of two grown boys. I am an active member of my church. I enjoy singing and I do cross stitch. I have been encouraged by the writing of Fannie Crosby and Helen Steiner Rice. I have traveled abroad with my husband who is now retired Air Force. I have been published in several anthologies by The National Library of Poetry and won The Editors Choice Award. I'm working on a manuscript.

Life's A Rose Amid the fragrant petal grows, stalks of green and thorns in rows. Yet every petal, every lead, with dew is dipped and sunlight kissed. But all's important to existence least it be spoiled, wither, and fade. So , we too need roses and thorns, sunshine, rain, and storm. To help us live, and gives a fragrant, blooming, rose. A Friend's Prayer I thought of you and said a prayer today. For strength and faith and sunshine and laughter for your day. For joy and peace, and love and wisdom, and grace abundantly. To see, to feel, to know, you're never alone.

Hold To My Hand Until You Understand Tho now darkly we see, we do not understand how it could be. For our eyes cannot see beyond you and me, Our minds too finite to comprehend. And so, our hearts feel like they'll never mend. We plunge deeper into darkness and despair, without waiting, watching, or believing in repair. The darkness comes before the light, sunshine comes before the night, Hope comes at the end of the tunnel. So, hold to the unchanging hand until we understand. Look up and be lifted up, time will pass, the heartache will not last. Time Too little, too much, can we control the likes of such? Hustle bustle fast paced life, 'twill only bring us loneliness and strife. No where to go, nothing to do, standing idly by as it passes you. Can we go backward to undo what we have done, to do what we should? No, for time marches on from dawn to dawn, forever passing along.

Katherine J. Ison welcomes letters. Write to:
6500 Gulledge Road, Wedgefield, SC 29168
All poems Copyright © 1996 Katherine J. Ison. All rights reserved.