Life Lived In Poetry is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s eleventh (11th) book to publish. The book contains poems Pat wrote beginning in the early nineteen-eighties through 2024. Pat’s poems speak about many of her challenges, wrong choices, and numerous losses. Her poems portray the different phases of Pat’s life, the good and bad years. Pat’s poems describe her hopes and dreams and successes’ over her long ninety-five years of living.
Some titles of the poems are, A Brighter Day, Between The Raindrops, Be Who You Are, Child of Sorrow, Don’t Quit, Expect A Miracle, Laugh At Life, New Start, One Day At A Time, The Key To Happiness, Tossed, You Can’t Lock Up A Dream, and Winning The Battle. Just a few of Pat’s diverse collection of poems.
You really “Can’t Lock Up A Dream” if you have a burning desire to see that dream realized, and act on bringing it into fruition. It requires action, and believing.
“In the strength of your own desire lies the magic power.”
For a number of years, Pat had planned her Life Lived In Poetry book to be her tenth book to publish, but she was awakened with the thought she should publish her Holiday Celebrations and Much More for her tenth book. Consequently, this book became her eleventh book to publish.
Holiday Celebrations and Much More is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s tenth (10th) book to publish.
It has been said “Don’t look back if you don’t want to go that way.” This is true when looking back at mistakes and challenges one has faced. But sometimes it is good to reflect on the past particularly regarding special holidays, events and happy times. “Precious memories how they linger.”
It is sometimes helpful to reminisce and remember loved ones and friends, many of whom are no longer with us. Recalling special Christmas’s, Thanksgiving dinners and get-together’s with family and friends can be good for the soul. Nostalgia 2 point O. It is good to spend a few moments in thought regarding these joy-filled celebrations, special times and memorable events spent with loved ones.
Holiday Celebrations and Much More speaks to just those things, those celebrations and events so precious to recall. This book contains 200 poems Pat has written through the eighties, nineties, two thousand and on about different holidays and celebrations. After some of the sets of poems there are pictures depicting the occasion, and pictures of Pat’s table settings representing each holiday or event.
Some poems also convey what was going on in the country, to some extent, particularly the years about which her poem was written. Also some poems tell about what was going on in Pat’s life at that particular time. To find all of the New Year’s poems in one place, covering so much of the past history, is quite unusual and unique.
All About Love is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s ninth book to publish. It contains two hundred twenty poems on different subjects. Each poem contains the word “love.” Many are motivational and inspirational type poems. Some tell about life and about life’s struggles and challenges that Pat has experienced. They tell about the love of God, Agape love, love of parents, love of nature, love of country, and different kinds of love. Most have a positive ending. Reading the poems will take one away a bit from the vicissitudes of life.
Pat believes she has been given a gift from God that puts these poems in her mind. Perhaps some of the thoughts also come from being on this earth 94 years. Many of the poems were written in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties and all through the years that followed. They portray some of the difficulties Pat experienced throughout her life.
The poems tell about different hardships, problems, losses and heartbreaks Pat suffered. Many times, she is awakened in the night with thoughts going round in her head. She jots down or scribbles the thoughts on a pad next to her bed and deciphers the scribbling the following morning. She has also written many poems while under the hair dryer.
The book also contains a short story “The Faded Photograph.” It is a great love story Pat wrote about a special couple she knew. The lady was originally from England.
A second short story called “Unfinished” is about her mother who was killed by a drunk driver when her mother was 45 years of age. A beautiful life snuffed out prematurely.
Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s Poems For Conservatives book is a part 2 or sequel to her first Poems For Conservatives book published in 2010. Her first book contained post cards and letters from three former Presidents and a First Lady in response to poems Pat had written and sent to them.
Both books contain political-type poems. Poems in her sequel, her second book, Pat wrote between 2010 and 2022. In 2015 Pat had hip replacement, and her husband had a massive stroke. There did not seem to be time or inclination to write. In 2021, Pat’s husband passed away, she moved, again, leaving little time for writing.
Pat feels at her age, these last days of her life, she needs to get the poems into a book or they will die in her computer when she passes away. They will be lost and gone forever.
Perhaps in distant future years there will be those interested in events that occurred in our country’s previous years. Thoughts in rhyme makes it easy to read. The poems speak to events, and about those in power at different given times.
The poems reveal what was happening, politically, through those years. Questions to ponder: Did parties in power serve their constituents or was it about power and greed? Sadly with the Biden Administration it was the latter plus utter incompetence.
Were “powers that be” abiding by the Constitution? Were they interested in limited government or about controlling people’s lives? Did they believe in free speech and the 2nd Amendment? Did they believe in abortion? Did they believe in free enterprise, free market? Were they for or against redistribution of wealth? Most of these things are concerns of Conservatives.
Most have heard the three most important things in life are God, Family, and Country. These make for a strong, free America.
Pat’s The Best For Last book begins with fiction, then memoir, about a portion of her life, and ends with fiction. Pat began writing this book many years ago. As her life progressed so did the book.
It starts with the main character happy and thankful for her new life with the man of her dreams. Then, she thinks back about her childhood, her marriage, divorce, and living with abuse.
For many years Pat experienced terrible verbal and emotional abuse. She wrote the book to expose the effects of this abuse. Her desire is to help any person going through anything like what she experienced, “Get help or get out.” Pat’s advice is “do not waste valuable youth and years in such a hurtful, harmful, situation.”
For Pat, her journey saw her born into poverty. Raised during the 1930’s depression. Ambitious at a young age. Working various jobs. A difficult life in a broken down trailer in Anchorage, Alaska. Much time spent in the “School of Hard Knocks.”
She had success in real estate, and investing, only to lose it all. The devastating loss of the home she designed and had built, plus all the rental properties. All because of her wrong choices and wrong decisions. For those Pat paid dearly.
The book reveals years and years of unhappiness. There were many stormy, hurtful years.
Pat’s poems are scattered throughout the book. Poems taken from some seventeen hundred poems Pat has written over the years.
In both the fiction ending, and the real life ending, Pat finally ended up with a man who truly loved her. He often told her she was the “love of his life.” She would find love and contentment and a happy marriage at last. God is good. God is so good.
As the title states, this book contains stories and poems about cats and dogs. It relates the joy and pleasure they brought to their owners and the grief experienced when their pet passes away.
Pat has written these poems and stories, over time, about the animals’ life and after some of the animals passed on.
The aim and purpose of the book is to help young people, starting with preteens, deal with grief through the reading of these stories and poems. It tells about the lives of these special cats and dogs.
This is a self-help book of sorts. It is Pat’s hope that it will help preteens, teenagers, young adults, and even adults who have lost pets to know that others have also lost pets, how difficult it was, and how they dealt with the loss of the pet.
Sometimes it helps when one pet dies to immediately get another one. That is sometimes difficult, as you feel no other pet can replace the one you lost.
It is a blessing that many people rescue pets from the pound and animal shelters. There are also organizations that rescue dogs from being euthanized.
Dogs and cats have meant much to many in different ways. They can be a therapy to senior citizens and shut-ins. They lift us up when we are having a bad day.
The pets were given a good home. They were given love. They were like family. They gave unconditional love in return.
The book includes pictures of the cats and dogs that go along with the stories and poems.
For those of you who have had animals you loved and lost, other animal lovers can feel your pain. Hopefully, these poems and stories will serve to let you know others grieve as you do. You are not alone.
Pat’s fifth book is a book of poems based on the lives of people in the Bible. She hopes these Bible poems will in some way bring to life information about each person, their faith, their strength, and for some, their failings.
Just wherever the spirit has led her has been her way.
She does not profess to be a Bible scholar. Her aim and hope is to use any talent she possesses to glorify God.
She didn’t start out with a plan about which person she would write about first. In the beginning, it was going to be about lives of women in the Bible, then it branched out to the men also.
Many times, she would hear a sermon or her sister or a friend would mention a Bible person, and she would then write a poem about that person.
Or when writing about a particular person, she would then feel compelled to write about their spouse or someone connected to them.
Her information was collected from the Bible and other sources.
To make the verses all rhyme and still tell the story was another challenge. Her hope was to make it more interesting for a novice or for young people to understand.
Many in this country have turned their backs on God. We have even been told, “This is not a Christian nation.”
Believers in God have made this country great. Millions of lives have been sacrificed for our freedom. Sadly, as in the book of Jeremiah, we have become a divided country.
Pat believes only if we turn back to God will our country remain great and free.
May the pleasure of reading these poems about lives of people in the Bible bless each reader and bring to life the story of each Bible character.
Honoring is a book of poems about faith, hope, and love and inspirational and motivational thoughts. Also poems about her precious family, her loved ones and friends, and poems in memory of those that have “gone on before us.” Also poems of appreciation for our great country and those that have sacrificed and paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Thoughts in these poems come from difficulties and challenges and losses experienced while traveling her life’s journey, and hopefully they will touch the reader’s in a way to better equip them to face their own challenges and adversities.
Strength derived from family and friends and Pat’s strong faith has brought her through many difficult times and while she can’t speak to “all” she is hoping through these poems she can show her appreciation for the part many have played in her life. For these she will be “forever grateful.”
This is a book about the life and experiences of Pat Morrell as a Realtor, and a real estate broker. On her long journey she spent over fifty one years in the real estate industry as an active agent.
She traveled through many valleys and over many mountains, experiencing challenges, losses, and trying times. It required faith, determination, and persistence.
There were constant, new experiences, and changes in the “market,” and the paper work requirements.
The book includes articles and poems Pat wrote that were published over the years in the Real Toro, Real Estate Guide, and SACBOR by her real estate board. Some of the articles are “motivational,” and some are about the lives of realtors, including President’s of her Board of Realtors.
Her book, “So You Want To Sell Real Estate” was started over thirty years ago, and never completed. Because of other obligations, and life’s challenges, it was filed away until just recently. Those pages are included in her book, as well as other miscellaneous, inspirational, motivational, and thought provoking articles and poems.
The “survivor’s” can take a trip down “memory lane,” journeying” back through the years.
Pat’s book Poems For Conservatives contains poems mostly in the political vein, most written the last couple of years as radicalism in Washington D. C. has shown it’s face in such a devastating manner. This type of Government is not what the people of America are about or what they stand for — the vote buying, back room deals, and lack of transparency. Pat’s poems reveal her belief that this great country is being taken down a dangerous path, and needs to be stopped. It’s her opinion that if those presently in charge can get rid of the seniors through a Government run health care system that withholds valuable drugs and care and sends them to an early grave, they would have an open field to indoctrinate our youth who then would never know the great country previous generations have been privileged to know. Born into “humble beginnings” Pat has “always been proud of her country,” unlike Michele Obama who stated a number of times “for the first time in her adult life” she was “proud of her country.” The older generation is well aware of the price of freedom. They know about free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and dreaming big dreams. They know about failing. They know about determination. These things have made America great. Not the re-distribution of wealth, or big Government. Beliefs must be passed on about unlimited opportunities this country affords for those willing to work hard, pay their dues, and take advantage of the possibilities. Just get the Government out of the way. Pat feels we must pass on our Constitution, and values and pride in this country. We must pass on the America we have known. We cannot allow any group to take away the rights our forefathers fought and died for and left in our care.
This is a book of poems written over the years through different challenges, problems, and losses. Pat’s feelings and thoughts come through in her words and expressions. One such loss was the devastating loss of her mother who was killed by a drunk driver. Her mother was forty-five years of age. At the same time her father and young sister were critically injured. Then there were the sad losses of her sister and only brother to cancer. There were overwhelming business losses and personal problems.
These life experiences are incorporated in her poetry. These one hundred twenty two poems were selected from over seven hundred poems she has written.
Pat has had more than twenty five of her poems read at Memorial and Funeral Services. She is published in Poetry.Com and they have put some of her work on CD’s. She has had a number of articles and poems published in the “Realtoro” Magazine, a real estate publication. Her poems have been used in Church Bulletins and published in a paper called “Mountain Talk.”
Pat writes “Personalized Poetry” which tells about people’s lives, personal events as well as Patriotic, Political, Religious poems, motivational, inspirational, and poems on various other subjects.
She has had “thank you” responses to her poems from the Queen of England, three different Presidents, one President’s wife, the owner of a large clothing store chain, as well as other individuals.