Drinking the Ink

By A. Ramsey

Poetry is a place to meet. Here words are the fresh baked goods that fill the air of poetry's cafe. We all have a table here waiting for us; for some it's tucked into a booth and for others a single seat alone. While many don't come around as often or even show up but once, there are the few us who have our well-worn chairs. We talk, laugh, and metaphor our way through verse like intimate conversations. In our hands are the mugs matching the personalities wide and varied, they are our hearts. In them - filled to the brim - is our ink. This incomprehensibly addictive fluid is drank slowly as we read or it's splashed down on paper to reveal images often even we didn't know were there. So please sit and drink the ink with me.

This book explores the heroes in us all along with a few images to invoke the right mood. Poetry is powerful like that. Slicing into our thoughts to serve up fresh insight on an old adage or truth. It deserves to be chewed, pondered over in the mind. At times a good poem is an eye opener, a perk, the coffee in our arsenal of literature. Hopefully these poems will inspire what every good poem ought to, thought and the expression of your own ink.

My poetry does not contain curse words or highly suggestive material.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A. Ramsey
• Release date: Mar 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310349805

A. Ramsey

I live to write poetry. Many of my poems have to do with change, it's inescapable draw, and the lure of new things that it brings. I also attempt distill emotions and principles that we all know if only on a subconscious level. When writing poetry I have an open mind as to where a thought might go. Sometimes even the simplest things lead to fanciful journey in the mind. Using rhyme, metaphors, and familiar things I put into words the ideas or emotions hard to say. Why did I write a claims placing process book? My work involves facilitating the claims placing and auditing process for a major insurance company. This has put me in touch with a large variety of people who are often unprepared for the many steps in the claims process. Getting to help coach people through this, helping them be acquainted with the claim is a great success for me personally. Some miss out on the best benefits that come with being prepared to place a claim, others feel lost and frustrated.

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Drinking the Ink

Written By A. Ramsey

Images By A. Ramsey

Copyright 2015

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The First Great Love

Anticipation’s Moment

Just Then

Tribute to the Carpet

Winter Night Prayer

An Epitaph’s Warning

Through the Lens

The Greatest Sense

Never Forgotten

Steel Horse

Overthrow

Extinguishing Regret

Taco, Sweet Taco

Uncertainty

Those Without

Vengeance

Bottled Up

Needed

Works of Meaning

Passerby of Wisdom

Doubt’s Reflection

Midnight

Poker Player

Our Song

Oh, Blacksmith of Knowledge

A Land Parched

Where Do Tears Go?

The Casual Acquaintance

My Winter Lair

Heady Lack of Love

It’s Electric

Ruse

Work in Progress

Filling My Shoes

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Incunabula

The Time Keeper’s Dream

Where the Leaves Settle

Moving Forward

Advice From Humanity…

Silent Specters

Ugly

Rumination

The Parting of Galaxies

Love Letter

Step Over the Edge

Sarcastic

Unravel Me

An Epic Beast

The Truth of Grey

Deceitful Monster

Soaring Fashion

Stale

Gossip

Love Monsters

Violin

Haiku:

Fitful Laughing

Early Love

Something Lost

Heart Beats

Stabs of the Tongue

Beyond Looks

Fruitage of Failure

Remnants

Image List:

Drinking the Ink

The Lens

Single Memento

Midnight Light

Snowy Way

Small Beginnings

Her Specter

Lovers Parting

At the Edge

Unraveling

Epic Vessel

Breaking Expectations

Poet's Pondering

Introduction

I caution you to not put the pen to mouth very often, for fear you get drunk on the most dangerous of substances - ink. For it fills pages of countless books and media, it splashes the truth or lies, and leads our minds. The danger lies in writing of what we do not have the power to measure out consequences of? When pen and paper touch there is art to unfold from swings of the instrument. May you find the art in the lines you read, write, and feel.

Thoughts - We All Have Heroes

Perhaps our consciousness is the greatest deception we know.

We think, therefore we are? Then as soon as words are given us, we spend a lifetime defining and adding meaning to who we are. If we really prove our existence by thought of self, then we have just the same lost ourselves in our questionable existence. Therefore, it is our hearts that add the meaning to thoughts. So what that lips touch? Of what point is the smell of fall and crisp air? Why do certain combinations of words move us into orbit?

Our heart, that is the proof of our humanity. We cherish it. It is the last thing