Home: and a Journey to the USA

By David Stuart Ryan

Award winning poet, David Stuart Ryan, explores the impact of a return to home after a round the world trip which has lasted some years.

The impact of half forgotten places and people comes across in new and revealing ways as he explores what they still mean.

But the lure of travel calls again. There is a whole section of the poetry which looks at America as he journeys there for a visit that takes in a long trip along the ocean highway of the eastern seaboard.

The range of his travels from Toronto to South Carolina enables him to capture the very essence of the American scene he journeys through and records in poem and picture.

After this contact with the American experience the poet returns to London England to continue his exploration of roots, heritage, memory and how all this has formed the present.

The benefits of looking both inside and outside the culture produce insights, discoveries, a greater degree of understanding of the truth of our lives.

Once again David Stuart Ryan relies as much on his illustrations as on his poetry in order to penetrate through to the very core of an experience.

For this is how we perceive our lives, we take in all available sources of information and then combine them in our brains in order to produce a picture, an approximation of reality. What precisely is this reality?

The poems search back in time, to childhood, to history, to remembered fragments, snippets and glimpses from both the past and present.

Only by patiently reconstructing these early traces of our lives can we hope to establish the meaning, the direction and purpose of them

As we reach the conclusion of this journey of discovery, the family history looms large in the poems. Old Victorian progenitors sit proudly on the page, they traveled further and faster than even our own civilization. 'Home - and a journey to the USA' concludes with a paean to the breaking dawn down the home street as the rain fructifies and multiplies the life in the patient sturdy trees.

The poems in this volume are all accompanied by David Stuart Ryan's original illustrations in full color, helping to create a whole experience where words and pictures reinforce and round out each other.

The poetic experience you receive is unforgettable in its deep seated images that call and lure with their hints of another world alongside the everyday. This is poetry at its finest reinforced by unforgettable original images in full glorious color.

It is an art lover's book just as much as a poetry lover's book. Book collectors and art collectors will immediately recognize the unique character of this poetry volume, it is a work of art in itself which has been some 40 years in the making.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Stuart Ryan
• Release date: Nov 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310644382

David Stuart Ryan

Writer, traveller and astrologer.Inventor of a new astrological interpretation program.The writing came first, you can see the titles athttp://www.kozmikhoroscopes.com/kozmik.htmAround the eclipse of March 1968 I turned down a job writing ads for KLM airline and wenttravelling overland to India. (Didn’t everyone?) Felt a little smug about that until I meta girl on the beach in Goa who had turned down a job writing for PanAm to head off to Formenteraand then India. (beat that Ryan!).Did visit an astrologer within 5 days of arriving in an incredibly hot India ( the temperature was hitting over 120F(50C) and even the Indians were dying) who blew me away with his analysis. Even getting that I was anadvertising copywriter.So now many moons later I have a computer program that combines both East and West astrology to givesome unique, mind blowing readings.See for yourself at http://www.kozmikhoroscopes.com

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Home

- and a journey to the USA

Book Five of The Seven Worlds

Poetry written and illustrated by

David Stuart Ryan

Home

- and a Journey to the USA

David Stuart Ryan

Copyright 2013 by David Stuart Ryan

Smashwords Edition

ISBN: 9781310644382

Also by the author

(poetry)

The sphere of the moon goddess

The conjunction of the sun and moon

Postcards from around the globe

New new world –

the land of Australia

and the islands of Fiji

(novels)

Looking for Kathmandu

Taboo

The Affair is All

The lost journal of Robyn Hood – outlaw

(biography)

John Lennon’s Secret

The Blue Angel – the life and films of Marlene Dietrich

(travel)

India – a guide to the experience

America – a guide to the experience

All these titles are available through Amazon and other online retailers such as Apple and Barnes and Noble in ebook and printed format.

Website: http://www.kozmikhoroscopes.com/kozmik.htm

www.kdmdr.demon.co.uk/kozmik.htm

Kozmik Press

London and Washington DC

Index

The city of dreams

Night flight

Scraps of a song

Your day has just begun

Talking to you in time

Enclosures

Search and destroy

Poetry’s child

Pictures of London life

Devaluation

Residue

In the summer sun

Lingering longing

Transistorised news

The swoon of summer

When love has died

In delineating your shape, I delineate mine

Across the river

Farewell

Every man his own tribunal

The warp and the woof

The fruits of history

Home again

Victory

We won

A Christmas carol

Winter’s will

Harbour lights

A long held wish

The sunlit tower

Lucky again?

In spring

Set up

Distant drum

Propellant

The message

Downtown

Parturition

Lotus road stop

Dance on to the full moon obscured by clouds

North Carolina foreshore

Ocean highway

America

Blowing in

Cool autumn

Visitor from afar

The moon is new

Another view

Dig deep

Lonely cries by the river

Dawn among the peaks

The burning bee

The harvest

Difficulty at the beginning

The winter planter

The snowman

The dark pond

Harbinger

Leaders of men

The change

Farewell to the chief

The hard rock

Enjoy

It is early spring

Elements

To express

End of the line

Seen from above

The tribal dance

Acme

Your presence

The centenary

Death in the family

Valediction

The rain in the night

About the author

The city of dreams

Off off and away to the city of dreams

Refracted images, hopes, wild impractical schemes,

They somehow come to pass and if you ever should

Doubt the hour, realise it does not matter what could

Come to pass, for like a mirror image it extends

Our gaze this whizzing world. An island maid never pretends

Her kind in a reflection weave and wave the surging

Life rhythm, you holding this can go on splurging

The best of your desires, lo it does come to pass

Quickly or slowly but in time enough so never ask

The reason when each passing season takes you up

Still higher to look down, wonder how you missed the cup

Of kindness, let that now come to your embrace, see

How in the city of dreams we all wish for the best to be.

On leaving Fiji for Los Angeles

Night flight

From this large leaping land we have quietly gone

For out into the black white spotted reaches.

Whistling with their roar the jet engines have long

To go. Night flight across the nation teaches

Our present power, balanced shapes at ground stations

Flight machines, and above the capsule propels

Itself across the tugging earth between the nations.

We are set free in