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    Different Shades of Grey
    Different Shades of Grey
    Different Shades of Grey
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    Different Shades of Grey

    By Alex van der Mout

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    "The name is Alex van der Mout. Poetry is my passion. Emotions of Pain, Rage & Love can only be truly captured with the written word. Here you will read my journey of emotions in an ever changing world."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 20, 2010
    ISBN9781450244923
    Different Shades of Grey
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    Alex van der Mout

    Alex has always taken delight in conveying meaning beyond the written word. This journey began while he was in high school, where several of his poems were received with enthusiasm by classmates. Building on this success, Alex continues to writes and several of his poems are included in this anthology. Alex currently resides in Ottawa where he will be attending post-secondary education while pursuing his writing career.

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      Book preview

      Different Shades of Grey - Alex van der Mout

      Contents

      January 12, 2010

      Never able to die

      Chapter One

      Squeeze

      Life

      Our madness

      Who I am

      The Tree and the Rose

      Home

      Problems of Today

      Expression

      The Tapestry

      Punishment

      Into the crimson night

      Why Me?

      Water

      Guilt

      The puppeteer

      Innocence Awaits

      A Lost Soul

      Hell on Earth

      Two worlds

      The Price for Freedom

      Faint memory

      Unknown

      Graveside

      Hand in hand

      Live for me

      Light

      So lost

      A martyr’s final hour

      The Swing

      Gone to Sleep

      The Power of Death

      The Battle

      Unfathomable

      The world notices

      So long, goodbye

      Pressure

      Light at night

      Grasp

      Gazing

      Society

      The memory

      Fight

      The Victory

      Vacant Memory

      Running

      Horror

      Drip Drip

      Untitled

      Outlook

      Opinion

      Ideology

      Chains of resentment

      Melody

      Emotion

      Saved and Killed

      My love

      My love

      My love

      This feeling

      This feeling II

      One wish

      Once whole

      Angel

      Missing

      No air

      About a girl

      Blackened Heart

      You

      Faith

      Disrespect

      Mindless abandonment

      Truth

      Creation of Men

      Ideal

      A boy with a stick

      Here I stand

      Journey

      Selfish

      Dream

      Solitude

      (Co-author: Abigail van der Mout)

      Final

      January 12, 2010

      They are soldiers

      Fighting a fight of survival

      The battlefields are their homes

      Blasted apart by no weapon;

      They are at war, with things they built

      The dead aren’t unknown

      The blood of children, brothers, mothers

      Is more accessible then water

      Bodies litter the streets where children once

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