Unfortunately, I do not know too much about Maude Mixon. I do know that she lived in Charleston, South Carolina. Sometime in the 1970s, she met Rev. Carl R. Hewitt, and they became friends.

Maude developed the gift of Automatic Writing and wrote these poems. Fortunately, she dated the poems that she wrote between 1983 and 1984. Maude would send a copy of these poems to Carl, who kept them in the church files. Recently, as I was reorganizing the Church files, I came across these poems and decided to publish them on the internet.

The gift of automatic writing occurs when Spirit manipulates the medium's hand to produce writing. The medium holds a pen, and Spirit moves the medium's hand to write a message. Some mediums use a typewriter to perform automatic writing.

Although I met Maude in 1984, I am unsure whether she handwrote these poems or typed them on a typewriter.

The eleventh poem, entitled "Teacher from the North," is about Rev. Carl R. Hewitt.

I hope you will enjoy these poems.

Sidney Schwartz