In Melancholia

By Vincent Moore

Childhood is sometimes marred by violence, pain, and abuse but revisiting those once familiar streets can be healing. Vincent Moore's In Melancholia explores the darker side of childhood lived inside the cracks of poverty and abuse and yet it is not without hope. The candle shines brighter and the songs are sweeter as a young boy stands poised at the edge of manhood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vincent Moore
• Release date: Sep 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466154865

Vincent Moore

Vincent Moore pens his thoughts about many things and has a style all his own. Sometimes, he parties with words excessively and it becomes necessary to publish quickly lest his work be lost in the dark corners of his room or his mind. Not just another pretty mask with eloquent words, Vincent will lead you into mysterious worlds that are strange yet somehow familiar, worlds that will leave you unsettled and breathless for more.He's been penning some of his work, waxing poetic on many things and developing his own style.Like most who are in the world for the first time on their own, he partied with words excessively and ended up with a few new friends and a hangover.So without further adieu I give you Vincent a man from somewhere of long ago. Birth Place

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Vincent Moore In Melancholia

In Melancholia

by

Vincent Moore

Copyright © 2011 Vincent Moore.

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Notice of Liability

The author wishes to make it clear that any character named, described or otherwise referred to in any of the writings contained herein is purely fictional and does not represent any real person either living or dead.

Dedication

This collection of poetry is dedicated to all those who have survived and thrived despite the past.

Contents:

My Lost Youth

Everybody Knows

The Drunkard at Her Table

This Boy

Alone In His Room

A Town Without Pity

Like a Bird On the Wire

An Angel Wept for the Children

Broken Dreams

This Man, Once a Boy, Comes Home

A Boy’s Love for his Father

He Fought the Law and the Law Won

The Death Mask of Love and Forgiveness

Beneath His Feet

Down at Old Sharpie’s

Sanctuary

A Christmas Hallelujah

Main Street Poets

Beneath My Skin in Color

Tsunami

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My Lost Youth

I often think of my boyhood days

in a friendly village near the shops

of railroad yards and factories.

In deep thought I walk the streets

up and down and recall

who lived between the walls

of those old flats of stone

and wooden doors.

My youth comes back

haunting my memory

reliving how we kicked the can

and hide and seeked

and tried to lasso the moon

and waited on mother’s call.

On my street I can see

the shadowy lines of trees

and telephone poles and catch

the aromas of stews

and fresh baked bread.

I remember the open windows

with cigarette smoke swirling forth

and old ladies chatting back and forth

hanging out mattress filled with straw

to air them out for a good nights sleep.

The thoughts of youth

are deep and long

thoughts that never want to leave

for fear of never coming back

to fill my boyhood dreams

I remember