Eternal Love: Poems from the First 70 Years
Ebook
Overview
The great love stories in history and fiction often somehow ended in tragedy or loss, which Lolita Jardeleza always thought was sad. Why were there no stories of great romances between ordinary, everyday people who married each other, raised children, paid mortgages, had spats, became grandparents--even great-grandparents--had arthritis, and used walkers? Romances lived and loved in “normal lives” are the real ones. These loves didn’t go up like a burst of fireworks but burned on like stars, year after year, unabated, soul-satisfying, deliciously nourishing, and mind-blowing day after day. Jardeleza offers hers as proof.
“Love poems, at their finest, remind us of what is
indestructible in ourselves and our world. In this fine collection
of ecstatic poetry—alternately addressed to her dear, departed
husband and the Divine—Jardeleza’s undying love poems demonstrate
that, in the immortal words of Ezra Pound: ‘What thou lovest well
remains, / the rest is dross / What thou lov’st well shall not be
reft from thee / What thou lov’st well is thy true
heritage.’”
—Yahia Lababidi, author of Where Epics Fail
“This baring and sharing of Lolita’s soul-in-love is definitely a
must read for all who would dare to plunge into the sea of love in
all its glorious reality and splendor!”
—Enid Sevilla, Loyola Productions, Inc.
“Seventy years. Seventy extraordinary poems about
relationships—spousal, filial, relationship with oneself; and
informing everything, relationship with the Creator. The pieces
focus on day-to-day life, but the collection also challenges us to
rediscover, participate, and celebrate in the mystical in the
ordinary.”
—Paul Jackson, author of A Moment in Paradise
“In Eternal Love, Lolita Jardeleza’s wise, generous poems
trace her long marriage to her beloved Jack. She describes their
love ‘like a star—a quiet, shining certitude.’ . . . Hers is a
voice of gratitude and grace.”
—Margaret Mackinnon, author of The Invented Child
- Title: Eternal Love: Poems from the First 70 Years
- Authors: Robert L. McCreary, Lolita L. Jardeleza
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725257603, 9781725257580, 9781725257597, 1725257602, 1725257580, 1725257599
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725257603
- Resource Type: text.monograph.poetry
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:19:20Z
Lolita Jardeleza is the joyful mother of eleven children,
grandmother of forty-six, and great-grandmother of thirty-eight—and
counting. She is a professed Secular Franciscan who has taught and
counseled students at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington,
Maryland since 1979.