title: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Hearfelt Poems
author: Barbara Sanchez
description: I love to write poems, they express feelings of love, hate, and sorrow. I have been writing for sometime and decided to put my feelings in a book. My children and my grandchildren are the ones who have made my life rich. I have found the love of my life that has also enriched my life. I come from a small family one brother who is now deceased, and one sister. I am still blessed for I still have my parents whom I love very much. When I am not writing I am sewing. I have been blessed with travel and have been able to see most of the United States. I hope our poems touch your heart as they have touched mine.
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  [Dedication](nav.xhtml#rded)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To my agent, Rebecca Strauss_
  
  
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  [Epigraph](nav.xhtml#repi)
  
  
  
  
  
  _. . . Drop down, fleecy Fog! and hide_
  
  
  _Her sceptic sneer, and all her pride._
  
  
  _Wrap her, Fog, in gown and hood_
  
  
  _Of her Franciscan Brotherhood._
  
  
  _Hide me her faults, her sin and blame;_
  
  
  _With thy gray mantle cloak her shame!_
  
  
  _So shall she, cowlèd, sit and pray_
  
  
  _Till morning bears her sins away._
  
  
  _Then rise, O fleecy Fog, and raise_
  
  
  _The glory of her coming days . . ._
  
  
  —BRET HARTE, “SAN FRANCISCO”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Map](nav.xhtml#rmp)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Dedication](9780062422071_Dedication.xhtml#ded)
  
  
  * [Epigraph](9780062422071_Epigraph.xhtml#epi)
  
  
  * [Map](9780062422071_Frontmatter.xhtml#mp)
  
  
  * [Contents](nav.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Chapter 1](9780062422071_Chapter_1.xhtml#ch1)
  