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\n8T's00  \n08mg  \ng0  \n e  \nAPRIL,1998  \nThis book is not copyrightedand reprints are appreciated.  \nVerna Lee HinegardnerPoet Laureate of Arkansas605 Higdon Ferry,Apt.109Hot Springs,Arkansas 71913  \nOther booksby this author:  \nMAGIC MOMENTSTHE AGELESS HEARTMUD AND MUSIC  \nTHE MUSIC GROWS LOUDERONE GREEN LEAFSEVEN AGES OF GOLFLIFE IS A POEM  \nMY SHIPS WILL SAILCHRISTMAS IS A MEDLEY  \nPrinted in United States of America  \n# DEDICATION\n\nThis book is dedicated to my first great-grandchild,LAURYN ELIZABETH WALTERS  \n# ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:\n\nSome of these poems were first published in:Prize Poems by the National Federationof State Poetry Societies  \nPoems by Poets'Roundtable of ArkansasThe Pen WomanCountry Poet  \nMidwest Poetry ReviewEncore  \nGrandmother EarthBonsai MagazineTennessee VoicesArkansas GazetteArkansas Democrat  \nKaleidoscopie,The Sentinel-RecordVoices InternationalBest of Ohio  \nMid-South Poetry JournalTradition  \n# Table of Contents\n\n工  \n# Travel the BackroadsCome Fly with Me\n\n2  \nA Glimpse at Arkansas Frontier Days3To the Man I Fished With on Little Blakely4Eavesdropping on Love5The Old Old Barn and Me6-7Where Mountains meet Bluegrass8West Virginia Farm Auction9Ozark Tall Tale10Shreds of Summer11The Ballad of Black Annie12-13Papa's Violin14Old Home Place15Brahms'Lullaby16Bouquet of Leaves17Man of Earth18-19Haiku Sequence20Leaving the Hospital21Whistle me a Memory22Slice me a Day23Introduction to Opera24The Call of Open Doors25Elegy to the Old Time Funeral26-27Grandma's Flower Garden28George29A Somewhere Tornado30Diamond of Hope31August Heat32Penitentiary Cove33  \nMiss Effie Ellen Cress34I Have Been Here Before35December 7,1941-Alexandria,Louisiana36-37Greyhound Bus Tour at Orlando,Florida38Battered Wife39Bypass around Route 71,Too Late40Seventeen Roses41Domino Tableau42Ballad of Melinda Keene43Long Overdue Letter to Norman Rockwell44-45Words from Ann Marie46Drifting Away47Of Permanence and Oak48Move Back,Captain Cook49Song of Ashes50The Court Takes Child Custody51The Narrow Road52At Jackson Square53Jimmy John Delaney54Junk Food55He Speaks to Me -John D.Engle,Jr.56January 8,199457When Mama Looked Back58At Daddy's Funeral59Words -Spoken and Unspoken60Knee Deep -Soul High61Where the Rainbow Ends62Pre-dawn Squirrels63When Thunder Booms64Riding the City Bus in Meridian,Mississippi65  \n# TRAVEL THE BACKROADS\n\nAway from freeways  \nprogrammed industrial parksand neatly squared subdivisionslies the true South:  \ncotton land and pine forestssugar cane and frame homesrice fields,pecan orchardsshort winters and gentle people.  \nHere,on the back roads,  \nwhere folks still say \"Ma'am\"and \"Sir\"where we are proud of Sunday clothes,used cars,new babies and old people,lies the unique South,  \nthe South that visitors miss  \nhurrying to Mardi Gras,OprylandDisney World and the Astrodome.  \nCome back,Visitor,travel the back roads.  \npole a pirogue down the bayou,pull some goobers in Georgia,  \ngo to an all day singing in Alabamawith dinner on the ground,dig for diamonds in Arkansas,hear the hounds on a coon hunt,  \nwhittle on a stoop,play some bluegrass.Hear the rhythm of the South;learn the words of our song.  \n# COME FLY WITH ME\n\nWhen I was just a kid in country school,Aladdin's Carpet beckoned and I flewacross the sky so high I felt the cool  \nvibrations of the world where poems grew.I breathed the rhythm floating through the airabove pink frosted clouds.The melodyof velvet words kept whispering a prayerrepeating softly,\"You can fly with me.\"  \nThen,back to earth;to listen with my heart;to taste my baby's tears;to write,reviseand study hard to learn poetic art.  \nTo offer people-poetry with pride,just grab a magic carpet.Take a ride!","cbCaifXlNTd5k97V","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifXlNTd5k97V","pdf",2737069,76,"English","# Travel the Backroads\n# Come Fly with Me","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of Hearts of the South?\",\"answer\":\"The book is by Verna Lee 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