A Special Power

A Special Power

A Special Power

Ron Black

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Editorial:
Outskirts Press
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781478744078
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A Special Power - Adventures in Poetry is a 'Brilliant Collection' of syncopated, exciting, and colorful Poems spanning Birth, Life, and Death with Enlightening Journeys throughout its cornucopia of pages. True-life Tales and Stretches of Imagination join with Clever Conjecture, Heart-warming Humor, and Delightful Dedications of Love in this artful, detail-painted sculpture depicting the human condition. Everyday endeavors and wholly unique observations abound in this Comprehensive composition of Conscience filled with Wonder and Resolve, Friendship and Loss, Love and Hate, and Joy and Sorrow. Find yourself, your family, and your friends among these lines of poetry, and share the witticisms and valuable life-lessons contained within. They’re guaranteed to bring you all spiritually closer together. Excerpts: ’A Special Power’ - Should it last a lifetime or only for an hour? ’Just Like Me’ - Don’t ask me for no handouts, don’t ask me for no dough. ’Man At Work’ - I get up in the morning, wash my tablets down with beer. ’Someone Close’ - My travels took me far away sometimes ten thousand miles. ’Unfamous Quotes’ - Keeping a secret is good for you until it comes out. ’You Apart Of Me’ - So Pen in hand, I promise you ten thousand meters high. ’ A Daughter’s Plan’ - Instead of nine months, only six you snuggled in my wife. ’Red Beans And Rice’ - We gazed upon the hardwood entrance trimmed in silk brocade. ’Change of Seasons’ - With arms that shiver, lips that quiver, and stutter in our speech, ’A Most Peculiar Way’ - Applause suggested I was great. I guess they never knew, ’Night of the Canned Heat’ - If he’d like to ride a train with me and go see the Canned Heat. ’Downhill On a Roll’ - It said when mixing blue and green, you must avoid the vapor.

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