A Better Kind of Madness: Vivid Poetic Images

By Deborah Renee

A Better Kind of Madness presents an exciting new poetry collection focused on visual imagery that seeks to engulf the senses of the reader and carry them into new realms and horizons of thought. The simple, imaginative verse contains layers of meaning, full of strong emotional content peppered with joy and humor, wit and wackiness, anger and sadness, all written with sincere passion. In this, her first collection, poet Deborah Renee shares poetry that is honest, emotional, and heartfeltverses designed to speak to anyone and everyone.



"If insanity is what we must accept and live with, then may God help us all to find a better kind of madness." deborah renee




Sit for a moment ... grab a cup of tea or coffee, open this book and read about:

The power of jigsaw puzzles
Why the old man sits on the porch
What the moon whispers
See the saxophone tones
Immerse yourself in the misty morning
Meet wacky Basketown characters
Find out what you might see on a solitary country road
See your soul in ripples of faith
Experience Jim Crow through the eyes of a child
Add these ingredients to your simmering stew
Chuckle at the Fat Cat's tribute to Dr. Seuss
Gain a whole new perspective on maggots
Hear my great-great grandmother's message
Taste, inhale and feel the rainbow.
Decide if you would drink the witch's brew
Learn what kind of light isn't a light

Enter into the powerful chapter of Fire Shadows, or cool yourself in the chapter of Water Visions. Yes ... it's all in here, and more! Written in free-verse rhymed and non-rhymed, rhyming couplets, haiku, senyru, narrative, rhyming quatrains, blank verse, limericks and other forms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462056668

Deborah Renee

Deborah Renee has worked in the field of MH/MR, and with individuals with physical disabilities in direct care and as a case manager for eight years. She spent time employed as a coordinator and tutor in an adult literacy program, and also worked in customer service at an internet-based company. For the past several years, she has worked as a Nursing Assistant with AIDS patients, and the geriatric population in hospice, short-term and long-term care. She has had several poems published in various magazines, including Writer's World, Cat Fancy Magazine and Poet Sanctuary Reflections 2010. Through the years she's taken study courses at Community College of Philadelphia and Temple University in Education. She spent parts of her childhood growing up in Sanford, Florida; Willingboro, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she currently resides. She works with the elderly in a Nursing Home as a Rehab Assistant; and continues to write in her spare time. This is her first published collection of poems.

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