In the pages you are about to read, in the simple stanzas and rhymed words, we see two people that share a deep and abiding love for one another. The poems that follow will show this couple as they express their hopes and dreams of not only their yesterdays, but the future they both so desperately desire.
Jacob Tanner has been writing poetry since he was very young. After being drafted into the Korean War, he uses his poetry as a way of escaping what is waiting for him on the horizon. The poetry is his lifeline to his beloved Belle. He uses the it to keep alive the memories of happier times and the woman that he loves who is waiting for him when he gets home.
Belle is keeping the home fires burning.