Remembering Yesterdays Imagining Tomorrows: Poetry Collection

By Burt E. Pringle

Prolific artist and poet Burt E. Pringle presents his sixth volume of poetrya volume that reveals his real and imaginary past, present, and future. Some selections are direct, personal, or reflective of the times and narrate the human condition in several voices, such as an observer, a lover, and the forlorn by exploring fantasies and making social comments.

Meant to entertain, enlighten, inform, and heal, many of the works in this collection evoke vivid imagery, as in Dimming Fire. The dimming of the fire, / the dwindling of the flame, / the smoke ribbons curl / ceases to ascend, / and love is lost / among the ashes. /

Remembering Yesterdays Imagining Tomorrows expresses Pringles thoughts on love, desires, anticipation, loss, and departing with hope for the unseen tomorrow. Its a collection from a man who values the gift of love late in life and who experiences peace of mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781426978470

Burt E. Pringle

Burt E. Pringle has published many volumes of poetry, and his work is also included in anthologies and on spoken-word CDs. He is also an artist, architectural designer, and watercolorist. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Pringle now resides in Jacksonville, Florida.

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   Burt E. Pringle, All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

WANING

MOMENTS AND MEMORIES

+ MEMORIES RETURN

I ONCE WAS THERE

MUSIC OF THE WORLD

NOW IT’S OUR TURN

MIDNIGHT WALTZ

CONFETTI DANCING

AUTUMN CORNFIELD

DWELLING THOUGHTS

YESTERDAYS

SIREN SONG

SILENT PICTURES, 

SILENT MEMORIES

NO TIME FOR BLUES

CITY SHADOWS, CITY LIGHTS

THE MARK OF TIME

DEAF–DEFYING

THAT INNER ATTIC

NOWHERE TRAIN

AMARANTHINE

ADAM

GARDEN OF LOST DREAMS

ULTIMATE JOY / CONSTANT PAIN

NOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH

JACKSONVILLE SUNRISE

WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE

VESSEL OF CLAY

ALONE

INVITATION

HEART TEARS + WAITING

LOSS AND DESOLATION

VICTIM OF THE MIND

THE ONENESS LIGHT

A JEWEL IN THE NIGHT

WAR

ETERNAL SEA

CHARLIE’S BULLET

DREAM GIRL + LOVER

I ONLY SEE YOU

COME SPRING

COME WINTER

DESTINY’S PATH

CROSSED PATHS

UNOBTAINABLE FLAME

SEPTEMBER IN PARIS

GARAGE

MASK + BEHIND THE MASK

RESTLESS ONE

HER

UNDERNEATH THE BEAUTY

TOMORROW

LOVE LOCKED IN A DREAM

KNELLING OF THE BELLS

+ ETERNAL FESTIVAL

BECOMING VISIBLE

THE SOUL’S EYE

+ ATTITUDE HEALING

STOIC MOMENT

YESTERDAY’S LOVE

FAR FROM PEERING EYES

ALL THE WAY HOME

IMPERSONATOR

HERMIT

DEPARTURE

SUNLIGHT SHADOWS

SPRING’S SONG

WAITING FOR HER

ENDLESSLY WAITING

SECRETLY HE LOVES

GOLDEN DAYS, SILVER NIGHTS

LOST IN SEPARATION

EMPTY NIGHT

THE ART OF LETTING GO

PATHWAY

SHRINE + MEMORIAL

SANCTUARY OF TEARS

A NEW HOME

DIAMOND

LIFE–JOINING

LOST ON A MOONLIT BEACH

A REMINDING HEART

ANTICIPATION

REMEMBER TOO, THIS LOVE

DRIFTING, WAITING

BRIDGING MEMORIES

THE FIRST LADY

WANDERING MINSTREL

GALLANTRY’S HORSE

TWO–COLOURED MOON

SHADOW

SHAGGIN’ FEET

SNOW ROSE

PEARLS OF RAIN

LOSING IT ?

LOST IN A CAVE

RELENTLESS MOON

FEARFUL TONGUE

RICH IN HEART

+ A WILLOW WEEPS

QUEEN OF HEARTS

+ HEART’S DOOR

SUNDAY MORNING

SILENT SOLITUDE

GYPSY SOUL

DIMMING FIRE

CONSUMED

+ CAN I FLEE or HIDE ?

THE TRANQUIL HOURS

SELF TRAVELER

HIS SONG

THISBE AND PYRAMUS

RIVER OF LOVE

SEAFARER COMIN’ HOME

DEW DROP + ANY MOMENT

+ DROP OFF

TO DIE AND LIVE AGAIN

OPPOSITES

TOUCHED BY TIME

THANK YOU GOD

MY CIRCULATION PRINCIPLE

Also by the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TO MY MOTHER

1909–1929

My mother my creator.

She held the seed that bore me.

As I grew inside her womb,

she nourished me

and gave me strength.

Through her, I inherited the past.

From her, I became the future.

My prayer. That I have proven

worthy of her pain and love.

From my second book

Love and Summer Days Fade Away

"Always write first things

utmost in the heart."

Edgar Allen Poe

1809–1849

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

You may find that my poetry reflects my

real and imaginary past, present, and future.

Some poems are more direct, personal or

reflective of the times, therefore I write about

the human condition in several voices – as an

observer, as a lover, the forlorn: exploring

fantasies and making social comments.

Poetry expresses my thoughts on love, desires

and anticipation, loss and departing, with