My Life's Lantern - Verses and Musings

My Life's Lantern - Musings and Verses' is a collection of poems and short stories scribbled over many years on napkins, paper plates, and in a variety of notebooks by author Margaret Carey. The book takes the reader on a journey of life and its many twists and turns. The pleasure, pain, introspection, surprise, trepidation, delight, sorrow, and fear are all welcome and at times unwelcome guests waiting to surprise the reader. Some short stories reach out to the author's personal experiences as penned in 'The Two Women', 'The Homecoming', or 'School Days'. Others like 'The Darkness' and 'A'mbrogio' leave the reader wondering: real or imagined? The compilation of poetry embraces life with all its peaks and valleys while taking the reader on a roller coaster of emotions from happiness through sadness and to the inevitable introspection of his or her own life.