Shades of Life

About the Book

All people hold on to life and hope to find the beauty so often hidden from them. They fail to understand that the beauty they seek surrounds them at all times. Beauty is in all of life, not just the ''happy times'' but what one might consider the ''hard times'' as well. How wonderful to be entitled to live even for a short time and know such feelings as love, hate, joy, sadness, beauty, sorrow, and all the feeing that make us human. This is poetry. Life is a book of poetry. Each day we wake and start a new page and do not understand that we are all poets.

We create what we will be. We see beauty in a half dead tree or we cut it down. We talk to God on our level and shake when we hear his name. Choose your life, create your own poetry, find love and beauty in all things. Love while you can.

About the Author

Linda Faye Beach was born in KY. She has lived in SC for the past 20 years. Writing anything has served as a form of wonder for her. Her family is very dear to her as is this earth we call home. You will or can ascertain a lot about her from her poetry. She has a very wonderful outlook on life and chooses to have her past be a part of her future.

Linda lives on a street lined with 300 year old oak trees. They are massive and have weathered many storms. She finds this an apt comparison for life since life can so often seem to be one storm after another, and it takes a lot of twisting and bending to survive.

Linda has had the pleasure of having her poem "Wind Dance" included in the book "The Colors Of Life" which was published by the International Library of Poetry. She has had the honor of being invited to attend several poetry conferences as a speaker to read her poetry before her peers and fellow poets.