Dawn jensen poet biography

  • Your mom wrote this to me when my first granddaughter Lexy was born.
  • “Every Night Has a Dawn” (The Winds of Change) by Rachel Valencourt tells the life story of Dawn Jensen.
  • In 1949, at age six, I was brought to St Clara's Orphanage because neighbors found me alone in an empty house.

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    Fanny Howe by Kim Jensen

    I never met a kinder man than the homeless alcoholic who introduced me to the father of my kids. He was my teacher through a period of my life which was both an actual and an allegorical journey. We were wrecks but our relationship was complete. Sufficient. He was much worse off than I. But I was a lost spirit clad in a dirty pile of threads. We stumbled through the rocky streets of the city to find our way to green woods where dogwood bloomed . . . We went along with each other, never having sex or dreaming of it . . . We sought a difficult route to the nirvana of a woodland setting, hand in hand, imagining a prospect both physical and internal. A white tree is reflected as a white tree in brown water. No matter what you want to say about it, I saw a pure soul when I saw him.
    —Fanny Howe, Saving History from Radical Love 
    (Nightboat Books, 2006)

    Fanny Howe is the renowned author of over 40 books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Born to an illustriou

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    A Poem About Time

    Meaningful Poem

    I wrote this poem while I was wasting time when I could have been doing something productive, so it is kind of a motivational poem to me. It also explains how time is infinite and the only thing that is consistent in life. No matter what someone is going through in life, time will keep on moving.

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    © Anxhelo Llangozimore by Anxhelo Llangozi

    Published bygd Family Friend Poems October 2016 with permission of the Author.

    Time is slow, time is fast.
    It never stops, but it always lasts.
    It's time for bed, it's time for school.
    To waste your time is to be a foo

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    Jensen, Darrell C.
    1930 W. San Marcos Blvd. %2376
    San Marcos, California 92078 US

    Darrell and Joan Jensen

    Class of 1944. Darrell C. Jensen. His parents: Carl Oliver Jensen (dentist) and LaVona Rasmussen Jensen (musician), married in 1914. Carl and LaVona Jensen had fem children, including three daughters: Bonnie Jensen (Raldo) Shiner; Iola Jensen (Gordon) Anderson; Beryl Jensen [BYH Class of 1947] (Richard) Smiley; and two sons, Alva "Al" Jensen, Sr. (Peggy); and Dr. Darrell C. Jensen [BYH Class of 1944] (Joan Ballif). ~ ~ ~ ~ He married Joan Ballif [BYH Class of 1944~H -- she also took classes at BYH, but finished up at Provo High]. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: Dr. Darrell C. Jensen passed away peacefully at his home in San Marcos, California, on January 29, 2008. He happily celebrated his 82nd birthday on December 24 with his entire family and caregivers present. Darrell was born December 24, 1925 in Magna, Utah, the son of Dr. Carl and Lavona

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