To My Annie Book 2: 100 Poems of Passion

By Wade Powers

To My Annie Book 2 is the second in a planned five book set. To many, writing 500 poems about life and love that are mostly about Annie, may seem a bit much, but to know her is to love her! 500 poems barely scratch the surface of just how wonderful she is! Read and enjoy the toils and splendors of life and love as the author confesses his eternal love for his kindred spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452067742

Wade Powers

Wade grew up in Lancaster, California with a love for the written word. What started out as simple poems and predictable short stories has evolved into novels about struggles, conquest, love and death. Wade has published two other novels, "Specter of an Accident" and "Skinware" and has completed the writer's version of the hat trick with the completion of "The Resurrection Factor." Wade has also written "The Covenant Divorce Recovery Leader's Handbook" which is a tutorial for starting divorce support groups for Christians. "The Covenant Divorce Recovery Student Workbook" was written as an aid for the members of said groups and allows a measure of accountability for the students as they follow along the fifteen week course. Wade has written two books of poetry, "To My Annie" and "To My Annie Book 2" and all of his works are available at online bookstores. His website is www.yellowriter.com and he lives in Port Angeles, Washington with his wife, Annie.

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Contents

Our Wedding Poem

All the Sights and Sounds of Christmas

I Surrender

To the Nines

Heart Headed Home

Only Some Dare

Can it be Ten Years?

Living Our Dreams

The Perennial Cure

More Than I Deserve

My Descent

When Stressed Lives Collide

Since Meeting Day

The Vintage Voyage

The Whole Year Through

Pray for Spring’s Birth

Commences New Quest

The Song of Our Love

Warm Welcome Tide

Dreams

Beauty of the Bloom

My Everyday Valentine’s Gift

Gratitude

Eleven Indeed

Heart’s Shadowy Places

Fires Burning

Please Me

Color My Dreams

Picture Posted Card

Home with Yours

Growing Fonder

Means to Inspire

Giving Rest to Quest

One Replaces the Twain

Red White and Daily

Now Broken

Christmasy Warm

Anticipate

Messenger

Yet to be Written

Kindly Kindred Spirit

Facade’s Curtain

No Reason

Glimpse of Forever

My Brief Generation

When I Finally Return

Path of Serenity

The Better

The World Spins on

Seasons We Share

Passed the Twelves

Complete Colorado

Turn into Despair

Fonder

My Daily Christmas Gift

Afternoon Shadow

Birds Taking to Flight

My Love Fell Fast

My Bright Unfallen Star

A Better Place

Persons We Are

Back to You

Fountain of Youth

Vindicated

Being Much Brighter

United We Stand

Pismo Beach

The Ladder

Our not so Secret Garden

Bright and Guiding Star

Seventeen Mile Drive

We’ll Call it Even

County Fair

The Road to Forever

Missed

Stillness Speaks Your Name

Upstream

Honor the Honor

The Magic of the Merge

The Water’s Gray

Life and Life

Finding

Sans Annie

Life Preserver

Perfect Moments

Flattery’s Cape

Make Rather Merry

Petals of a Fragrant Rose

Guilt

New Favorite Colors

Considering Keats

Sea of Glass

Springing

What Makes a Mist?

Love’s Fire Burning

May I Write?

The Day of Your Birth

Near

Replaced

Curtain’s Wrung Down

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Our Wedding Poem

An unjudgmental judge

Helps forge our vows

Mothers remember the past

And relish the now

Bear and Cyndi stood with us

Giving blessings of love

God gives second chances

Approves from above

Our Hawaiian honeymoon

Exploring three isles

Discover intimate passion

Laced with laughter and smiles

Oahu, the tourist trap

Diamondhead all the rave

Arizona beckons us from a watery grave

Kauai, garden island

Romance within reach

Waterfalls and a canyon

White crabs on the beach

Maui, the jewel

Playground for the rich

Relaxing but knowing

Kauai’s our niche

Our holiday now ended

Bid farewell to the sun

A lifelong dear honeymoon

Has just only begun

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All the Sights and Sounds of Christmas

Use your nose – thermometer – hard chill hangs in the air

Differs from the rest of times – anticipate to share

End of the year in culmination – celebration fresh and new

All the sights and sounds of Christmas, personified in you

Again – use your nose – inhale the smell of pine

Whiffs of gingerbread and peppermint are yet another sign

Hallowed day, while drawing nearer, seems too good to be true

All the sights and sounds of Christmas, personified in you

Use your tongue in playful nonsense to taste a soft snowflake

Fall into heaven’s powder – snow angels on the make

Play in the icy paradise until our hands turn blue

All the sights and sounds of Christmas, personified in you

Use your eyes; survey the wonder – the lights in charming glow

Confirms the fact it’s almost here and in your mind you know

That this one will be special, ranking with rare few

All the sights and sounds of Christmas, personified in you

Use your heart to hear my heart – impart your spirit dear

Connect beyond our family and those who may be near

I’ll share a spark of what I get, to hold the whole year through

All the sights and sounds of Christmas, personified in you

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I Surrender

Peace and tranquility, an endangered pair

Most feign compassion, pretending to care

These concepts revealed to hearts which are tender

Unconditionally, to your serenity, I surrender

The violence and killing that threatens the life

Existence evolving in systems of strife

Heal broken spirit – for I know the Mender

Unconditionally, to your serenity, I surrender

Stare into space when the moon is aglow

Think of a quiet that most will not know

Hear peaceful whisper from the lips of the sender

Unconditionally, to your serenity, I surrender

Try to imagine a soft serene state

Away from the traffic, an alternate fate

Created by one of God’s fairer gender

Unconditionally, to your serenity, I surrender

Thank you for shutting out all of the noise

You do it with elegance, power and poise

Providing the safe place you only can render

Unconditionally, to your serenity, I surrender

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To the Nines

An idiom obscure – the meaning not known

Unexplained origins – no clarity is shown

Some of our sayings – confused words in our lines

Nine years of wedlock – let’s undress to the nines

Dressed to the nines is a curious quote

No substance or knowledge of even who wrote

The original sentence – we can’t read the signs

Nine years of wedlock – let’s undress to the nines

Some say the saying has military ties

Some claim a scale for which beauty vies

But I’ll not be named among seekers who pine

Nine years of wedlock – let’s undress to the nines

I really don’t care ‘bout its vague history

To me it remains a droll mystery

But I’ll ponder upon it as we wine and we dine

Nine years of wedlock – let’s undress to the nines

My favorite image of your favorite dress

Folds on the floor as we start to caress

In that magic moment I’ll claim what is mine

Nine years of wedlock – let’s undress to the nines

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