This is a blog in honor of my husband’s grandmother, Mildred Ballard. Grandma wrote poetry. A lot of poetry. In the course of her life, I can’t even begin to imagine how much she wrote. It has been over 10 years since Grandma Mickey passed on from this world and went to be with her Heavenly Father. In that time, boxes of her poetry have been stored in our home. In an effort to clear out some boxes, and honor her wish for publication, I am going to be posting one or two of her poems on this blog each day. After they are posted, the paper — or the church bulletin, or the post-it note, or the napkin, or (well, you get the idea) — that she wrote it on will be let go from our home. I openly admit that some of these poems are wonderful. Some of them are eclectic. Some, I simply do not get. However, I can promise you that every one of them was written from the heart of a woman that loved life and beauty and her family…and above all else…she loved God.   Enjoy.

In Loving Memory
Mildred Edith Ballard
1909-1997

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