SEASONS AND SENSES is a collection of poems written over the course of 25 years by Darlene Ewers. Her life experiences and reflections on various aspects of nature can be found in her poetry. Many of her thoughts are based on growing up on a family-owned Kansas farm with her two younger sisters and how those events reaffirmed her Christian faith. This is her first work of poetry, although one of her poems was published in the form of a children's book. THE SEA, in 2009. It introduces children to their senses by way of exploring the various aspects of the sea.
Darlene T. Ewers published her poem "Emotions" in 2000 in "AMERICA AT THE MILLENIUM, THE BEST POEMS POETS OF THE 20th CENTURY" by the International Library of Poetry.
Darlene grew up on a dairy farm with two younger sisters in Wyandotte County, Kansas. They attended the same one-room country school their father, his siblings, and their grandfather attended. The smallest number of children in attendance was fifteen, and the largest group of children included twenty-one, representing all eight grades. It was the last one-room school to be closed in the State of Kansas before it was moved from the bank overlooking Island Creek to its permanent resting place at the Agricultural Hall of Fame near Kansas City, Kansas.
Darlene has enjoyed reading since early childhood, reading a hundred books during her eighth-grade year in grade school. Her favorite school day memory was listening to her teacher read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books during inclement weather or before the end of the day. Darlene has compiled and published her poems in her second book entitled SEASONS AND SENSES: My Life's Poetry.
Mrs. Ewers is the mother of four grown sons: Brendon, Sheldon, Landon, and Jordon; she has four daughters-in-law, Maria, Ellen, Jennifer, and Susan; and she enjoys her three granddaughters, two grandsons, and three great-granddaughters who range in age from thirty to newborn. She has been married to James for fifty-five years. They are blessed with a loving family which supports one another through every event of their lives.