Waverly Songs: Poems

By Robert Sonkowsky

The poems of Waverly Songs are simple, sensuous, passionate. They will instruct, delight, and move your heart to their rhythms. Experience and see the world from the perspective of this humorous, human poet: People are more precious, all creatures on earth have that special radiance, as do angels and Gods spiritual beings everywhere. Read the poems aloud, or to your silent ears, to hear and feel the resonance of your heart. You will be delighted, instructed, moved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469791708

Robert Sonkowsky

Robert Sonkowsky is a poet, free-lance actor, and Classics & Theater Professor Emeritus. He has written and performed poetry since the second grade, where his creative teacher, Miss Malarkey, had her pupils use words from the spelling lists in poems and stories and read them aloud to the class. He has published two previous books of poetry: UNSOUND SCIENCE ISBN 978-1-4500-0752-8 and WAVERLY SONGS ISBN 978-1-4697-9169-2, with individual poems in some on-line and print publications, such as “Poets Against the War” and “Trellis Magazine.” He regularly recites new poems before the North Oaks, Minnesota, Poets and Writers group. For details see Wikipedia, his agent www.wehmann.com, his U. of Minnesota resume cnes.cla.umn.edu, or just Google him; for samples, both print and audio see http://www.bolchazy.com/prod.php?cat=latin&id=00007 and http://ipodius.bolchazy.com/agora/UnsoundScience.html wehmann.com > men 65+ bob sonkowsky cnes.cla.umn.edu

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ISBN: 978-1-4697-9169-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4697-9170-8 (ebk)

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iUniverse rev. date: 03/09/2012

CONTENTS

WAVERLY* SONGS

Acknowledgements

Laney At Two

Morning

The Other Side (Prose Poem)

Five Haiku

Five Non-Sequiturs

Elizabeth Juanita Hamm

Lizzi’s Hands (Villanelle)

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano (Tanka)

Unsound Science

Eight Sonnets

The Inscrutable

The Women’s Marathon

Lindsey Palmer (Villanelle)

God’s Kingdom Is Here And Now

(Villanelle)

Lovely Linsey (Tanka)

Wisdom (Tanka)

Who Knows?

Collateral Damage

Three Haiku

A Crown Of Sonnets

(Seven Concatenated Sonnets)

Three Farewells

Two More Haiku

The