Mime Musings

By Charles Cozart

Having been raised in a small town in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, I had a very narrow vision of life and of the world. There were so many questions that I did not know that I needed to ask. I remember driving down the red brick paved main street wondering is this really all there is. So, I left. " Mime Musings" is a look into the search for and finding of a great big,colorful, magical world. These poems are part love, part revolution, part emotion served up with a heaping helping of mental madness. The illistrations are an attempt to capture the immages taht the words paint in line, space, and order. All the characters are real even the ones that have been created from bits and peaces of this person then the other. All who have come to live within the pages and verses of this book. "Mime Musings" is the findings that has resulted from a search for a vision of a world painted with the strokes of a very wide brush. " Mime Musings" begins with the poem "Lives and ends with the poem "Circles. Inbetween you will find alot of yourself within these verses and immages that come off the pages of this book. It is possible, that you will recall visions from your own journey.

And yes, the search continues.

Enjoy!!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781475958010

Charles Cozart

Charles Cozart grew up in the panhandle of Oklahoma, and has travled extensively throughout the United States and Old Mexico. He now resides on a small farm east of Norman, Oklahoma with two dogs, eight cats, two Appaloosa horses, seven goats and a Harley Davidson motorcycle. After spending alot of years breaking and training race horses, he now teaches Adult Education classes, continues to travel and writes books. He is also the aurthor of "Tales From an Abnormal Reality" , and he is currentl;y working on an Irish fanticy. He says,"I have lived my life in stages. It has been like scenes from the movie "Little Big Man". First I had my football stage, then there was my hippie stage, then my horesman stage, and the stages continue. All of these stages have added to the color and flavor of his poems and stories. Jarrod Lucero who created the illistrations lives in Guymond Oklahoma, is a student at Panhandle State University.

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iUniverse rev. date: 10/23/2012

Contents

Lives

Hobo Journey

Indian Time

Anywhere Lost World

Mental White Out

In My Mind, Maybe, Maybe Not

Scratchings

Blank Pages

Farming with a One-Way

The Spot

April and October

Spring Stillness

Dent de Lion

Mimosa Madness

Hackberry Creek

Clouds and Clowns

Last Rose of Sharon

Interruption

Spiritual Consciousness

Human Being

Reverence

Uncaged

It’s Still the Same

Fear this Revolution

Old to Young-Young to Old

Accepting Dysfunction

Alphabet Soup:

Woman with Cat Eyes

Residence of

Let Sleeping Giants Lie

Red Dress Revolution

Circles

Credits

Mime Musings

By

Charles Cozart

Author of

Tales From an Abnormal Reality

Illustrations by

Jarrod Lucero

Published by

iUniverse Publishing

This book is dedicated to all the characters, both real and imaginary, who have come together to inspire these Mime Musings.

Introduction

Words paint pictures. Within the pages of Mime Musings, the figurative language of imagination paints with the brace brush stroked of light