title: A Poetry Break: Poetry for Your Pleasure
author:  Kay Day 
description: Day has a good sense of humor as well as a poet's way of painting with words. -- <i>Greg Langley, Books Editor, The Advocate, February 22, 2004</i><br /><br />Day tells her stories well, vividly, always coherently - and there is a lovely sanity and goodheartedness that emerges. -- <i>Steve Kowit, Author, In the Palm of Your Hand, for kayday.com, January 2004</i><br /><br />Day's work will awaken readers emotionally and cerebrally. -- <i>Linda McDonald, Times-Union online, November 1, 2003</i><br /><br />Refreshingly fresh and smoothly written. Day has found her place in the literary circle. -- <i>Florida Monthly, February 2004</i><br /><br />This delicate wordsmith doesn't talk about her heart, but she speaks from it. -- <i>Sandy McKinney, Books Editor, The Alsop Review, December 2003</i>
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  Poems of Purpose
  
  [POEMS OF PURPOSE](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_002.html#filepos7581)
  
  
    
    
  [A GOOD SPORT](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_003.html#filepos9428)  
    
  [A SON SPEAKS](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_004.html#filepos12530)  
    
  [THE YOUNGER BORN](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_005.html#filepos16909)  
    
  [HAPPINESS](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_006.html#filepos21118)  
    
  [SEEKING FOR HAPPINESS](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_007.html#filepos24238)  
    
  [THE ISLAND OF ENDLESS PLAY](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_008.html#filepos25760)  
    
  [THE RIVER OF SLEEP](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_009.html#filepos28220)  
    
  [THE THINGS THAT COUNT](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_010.html#filepos29992)  
    
  [LIMITLESS](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_011.html#filepos31525)  
    
  [WHAT THEY SAW](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_012.html#filepos32133)  
    
  [THE CONVENTION](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_013.html#filepos35410)  
    
  [PROTEST](Poems%20of%20Purpose_split_014.h