Midnight Arcade

Midnight Arcade is a "easy read" book of poetry which covers a variety of themes. Darker themes include depression, failure and death, brighter themes deal with marriage and parenting, and some religious themes include the intervention of angels and Christ's love for us. The poems are eclectic in style ranging from simple rhyme schemes to random prose styles.

Midnight Arcade is an "easy read" poetry book which covers a wide range of topics. It was written with no regard to poetry rules---or at least a healthy disdain for them. You will find a vast array of rhyming and non-rhyming techniques in Midnight Arcade. On the brighter side are poems dealing with love of nature, love of God, faith, hope, marriage, parenting and growing old. On the darker side are poems dealing with failure, doubt, despair, and death. The eclectic nature of the book makes it fairly user friendly for anyone seeking an hour of humor or spiritual insight or a confirmation that life, indeed, occasionally just sucks.

Gloria Eleanor Porter Pope was born in Logan, Utah. She attended Weber State College and the University of Utah where she received her Associate and Bachelor's degrees in nursing. Following graduation, she served a health mission to the Philippines for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She worked in ICU-CCU, Surgery and L&D for ten years. She retired when her third child was born to devote full time to her growing family. Shen she isn't writing, you can find her cooking, sewing, embroidering, singing with the Durango Chorale Society, composing music, or killing expensive plants. She is not a gardener. She and her husband, Charles, live in Hesperus, Colorado. They are the parents of five children.