Always Sunshine Yellow is a profoundly moving collection of deeply personal and emotional poetry. Maria doesn't shy away from reflecting inward and her prose is all the more brilliant from it. This poetry collection is broken into three sections: Faith & Hope, Lessons & Resilience, and Love & Family. Each section contains poems that reflect joy, introspection, triumph, and hope. The poems themselves range from a few lines to a few pages, but no matter the word count, they all elicit emotion from the reader. One of my favorites is a short poem entitled, "Excess."
Lord, pour yourself over me,
and allow the excess
to flow from my pen.
Interspersed amongst the poetry are small illustrations that help add to the mood and add some charming whimsy. A wonderful book of prose that can be devoured over one sitting or sampled at intervals. As an added bit of interest, Maria Gray-Gerhart is a Johnson County resident currently living in Franklin.
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