A collection that gathers a lifetime of poems and personal memoir, exploring how we experience time, carry grief, and search for something larger than ourselves. Written across seasons, each page asks what remains of us when the clock stops mattering?
Kathy P. Bonham has spent a lifetime translating the intangible into verse. Her work first found an audience in the poetry journals and literary anthologies of the 1980s, and has continued to evolve through decades of reflection, culminating in Prose-Poetry: 1944 to 2025, a career-spanning collection of poems and personal essays. Her poetry moves landscapes that become quiet metaphors for aging, loss, and transcendence. Woven throughout the collection are also moments of memoir, including a vivid account of riding through the foothills of the Lukachukai Mountains, a passage that captures her enduring belief in art as a bridge between the ordinary and the eternal.
The Silver Sun and Golden Days is a reflective collection of poetry that explores the complexities of human existence. Through lyrical free verse and thought-provoking essays, Bonham invites readers to question conventional ideas of reality while discovering moments of beauty, transformation, and transcendence within the natural world and the human experience.
Inside this collection, readers will discover:
Philosophical reflections on time, consciousness, and identity, exploring how human perceptions shape our understanding of existence.
Evocative free-verse poetry that uses changing seasons, landscapes, and natural imagery as metaphors for life, loss, and renewal.
Personal memoirs and autobiographical moments that blend lived experience with profound emotional and spiritual insight.
A timeless exploration of creativity and self-discovery, showing how art and nature become pathways toward healing, meaning, and transcendence.
There are moments when time seems to betray you. An afternoon vanishes without leaving substance behind, while a single restless night stretches endlessly, almost unbearably so.
A smile can be beautiful. It can comfort, bond, and ease harsh realities. But a smile can also become a mask. When one smiles all the time just to make it through the room, satisfy
Pain has its traces. This is the truth that people try to tone down. We speak of healing as if it makes us pure once again, as if we become untainted by the experience that somehow
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