Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)
    Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)
    Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)
    Ebook106 pages30 minutes

    Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)

    By Vincent de Paul

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Flights of Poetic Fancy is a collection of whims, whimsical enchantments and impulsive imaginations that attack the mind beguiled into visions and fantasies.

    It is an aggregation of quarrels, musings, battles (rather not) fought, wounds and wooings, loves and agonies and all sorts possible nonsense and forgetfulness—anything and everything ghastly grim of the wandering mind—that possesses the mind and convinces it that no maxim and order has more sense than its thinking.

    Flights of Poetic Fancy has a critical sensibility and humorous look at life, issues, and vice while challenging the invention of history and beliefs strongly held by a people rather falling into despondency.

    From the award winning author of First Words, Flights of Poetic Fancy will leave you impishly amused yet reeling with ire and indignation. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMystery Publishers
    Release dateOct 26, 2017
    ISBN9781494303051
    Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)
    Author

    Vincent de Paul

    Vincent de Paul is an award-winning Kenyan Freelance Writer, bold Blogger, pop literature Author, and an avant-garde Poet. He has been published on the Kenya’s dailies, Storymoja Africa blog, African Street Writer, and NaijaStories among others. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing and Proofreading and Copy-editing Course from the The Writers Bureau, UK He works and lives in Nakuru, Kenya.

    Read more from Vincent De Paul

    Related to Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Frangipani

      Oct 30, 2017

      Frangipani
      5 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The American linden sways nonplussed by the storm,a bounce here, a shimmy there, just shaking like musicleft over from the night’s end wafting into the avenues before sleep.I remember once walking down Clinton Street, and singingthat line returning,

      4 min read

    • Article

      Seven Poems

      Sep 1, 2021

      The dancersIn a terribly brightLight blue gauzeRetained the mystery Skating on a lakeBlue and iceAn illusionary timeWhere poetry feels inevitable The terrific clownWho lies insideEvery blue dressDoes he see me Always a starAlways a rootHorrible auras

      2 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      for Rouge they do not knowthe joy they walk with their footprints a lessonof faith O faithful companion of lonelinessthe name we gave you was not a name but a cryand you stayedand now they come to hunt in the wildnot for meat not with the ritual for

      4 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year

      Jan 3, 2019

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
      7 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      I am walking through the hotelEvery time I am so sadThat I want to die It’s a place where I can keepEverything I’ve never beenBrave enough to get to Poets have moons and moneyTo get themselves throughThe longest night imaginable But I’ve had these ro

      3 min read

    • Article

      An ever-fixed MARK

      Nov 1, 2023

      An ever-fixed MARK
      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2022

      If I call myself unlovable, I am, practically; if I say itenough times: unlovable. Then, like practical magic, I’m hollow as old garlic; I’m distance-skinned.I’m a long, mean package, a terror-dyke, a nag, a squinting, slut-spun hag—it’s easy, really

      5 min read

    • Article

      Begin Again

      Jun 14, 2022

      My grandfather came to live with me. There was nowhere else for him to go. What had happened to all his children? Death, decay, exile—I hardly know. My own parents died of pain. But I must not be too gloomy, at the beginning, or you will leave me, an

      6 min read

    • Article

      Leslie Jamison: On Weddings

      Sep 27, 2019

      Leslie Jamison: On Weddings
      5 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems by Rohan Chhetri

      Sep 8, 2020

      All summer the half voice lurked behind me & I played deaf for days for to live To not write about it to use my body Part the river’s flesh to operate Machinery is human too to love & for once stay awake through it all. Now it comes like the deer sle

      3 min read

    • Article

      Grief Is Another Word For Love

      Jun 21, 2021

      I am trapped in Australia. The borders are shut, which has worked well for keeping COVID-19 out, but it has also kept me in. Over the last fifteen months in sunny Perth, where I live, there have only been two cases of COVID-19 in the community. We ha

      8 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2022

      followed—in front, as horses—into daisy& silver dancing, knowing the jaw who unkeysin the danced earth to drink me down to haints,& will go again. was willed. distrusted happiness, addicted to it.a god needs of a god. here, i don’t want to reachfor g

      3 min read

    • Article

      Competition

      Dec 15, 2021

      IN COMPETITION No 274, you were invited to write a poem called The Phone. Your entries were all the better for the unease, at the least, you felt for the machine. ‘Man home to wife, he barely greets her/ But dials the shop to order pizza,’ observed D

      2 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied

      May 17, 2018

      Poetry Rx: You All Have Lied
      5 min read

    • Article

      One Word: Bitch

      May 9, 2019

      One Word: Bitch
      3 min read

    • Article

      Journey To Solace

      Aug 12, 2019

      Journey To Solace
      5 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Noah Warren

      Dec 1, 2020

      Some waves came up overnight, though in Norderney, there was no weather.At the commercial wharf, a thin stream of white exhaust rose vertically from the ferry.The first service would depart soon. The puddles lay dark in the stone streetsand in the ga

      3 min read

    • Article

      Summer Of Love

      Jun 22, 2022

      Summer Of Love
      15 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      In class, I stared because of the blood going blue.The chalk that coated our fingerly teeth.The way we lapped each other (on the shorewhere the flowering). I gave away our location. Smacked my lips in the coat closet.Sucked at her teeth. We, on all e

      4 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2024

      I’ve always been an easy crier (let it come, not ashamed, never held it back in joy or grief, and wherever … subway, teaching, grocery store, (oh the desolate grocery store during the height of Covid) but now, the welling up: that’s daily now. —Lia P

      5 min read

    • Article

      On Death Row, There's No Such Thing As Closure

      Aug 2, 2019

      It is August of the year 2000, and I am cold. I know the sun is shining outside, but there are no windows in the courtroom. The lighting is subdued, darker in the back where spectators sit and lighter in the front where tragedies play out—like a the

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Flights of Poetic Fancy (a collection of poetry) - Vincent de Paul

      FLIGHTS OF POETIC FANCY

      A collection of poems by

      VINCENT DE PAUL

      R:\ELOVE POETRY\Documents\Publishers\Mystery Books\Images\mpub-01.jpg

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Copyright © Vincent de Paul, 2014

      The right by Vincent de Paul to be identified as the author has been asserted in accordance with Copyright Act Cap 130 Laws of Kenya 2003 and the international copyright laws.

      Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means,  including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is strictly forbidden without written permission from the publisher.

      Published by:

      Mystery Books, an imprint of

      Mystery Publishers (K) Ltd.

      P.O. BOX 18016—20100

      Nakuru, Kenya.

      Email: publishing@mysterypublisherslimited.com

      www.mysterypublisherslimited.com

      Cover by Patrick Boro

      ©Mystery Books

      For

      The (un)fallen heroes of (un)just wars.

      Patriots (politicians) dream of waging wars

      For the young men to die in (for a red ribbon);

      They talk of dying (and not killing) for their country.

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents

      Love Affair

      Bad Love

      Broken Heart

      I Am Love

      I’m Lonely

      Dream Woman

      Gillian’s Body

      Army and Wars

      We’re Soldiers

      The Girl I Am

      Army Lover

      The Army Family

      Mother’s Sorrow

      Rules of Engagement

      Behind the Clouds

      Conscripted

      Saluting Boots and Helmets

      All Sorts Possible Nonsense

      The Media

      The Journalist

      The Poet

      The Writer

      I Go For Fine

      Cosmic Collision

      Valentine’s (2013)

      The Scientist

      The Woman Mystique

      Black Widow

      The Republic

      For the Good of the Republic

      The Politician

      Mr. Prosecutor

      The Republic

      Continental Affairs...

      Mama Africa

      What Happened?

      It’s Only in Africa

      Home Sweet Home

      God Forgive America

      ...and Religion

      The Believer

      The Priest

      Babylon

      The Prophet

      The Poor

      Our Father

      One Family

      Shadows

      The Twin Factor

      Make Worth the While

      Me, Myself & I

      I’m Fine, Thank You

      No One

      Night Life

      Death Bed

      Kill Me

      Final Tribute

      Extras

      Saluting Kenya Army Soldiers

      KDF Soldiers: Tainted Saviours

      HAPPY JUBILEE, KENYA

      Goodbye 2013

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Connect with the Author

      ALSO BY VINCENT DE PAUL

      Love Affair

      Love, an emotion of immense joy yet great sorrow

      Bad Love

      The hugs

      The strokes

      The caresses

      All the love

      When small

      Were all lies

      Lies, lies, and lies

      Of love

      And concern——

      You’re never loved.

      Broken Heart

      I MOURN THE LOSS OF a friend

      and curse the senseless fiend

      for never more will he smile

      nor together jog the mile.

      The broken heart where love thrived

      is hurt, laden with bereave,

      Covered with grief like the face of a terrorist hid in a mask.

      Over her going he weeps

      He may never be himself.

      He thinks of the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1