Hopes and Memories

By Henry Tedeschi

As indicated by the titles the poems reflect hopes and memories. Every so often , as the author indicates, he is hit by lightning and ideas come to mind in the form of poems. Words have to be changed only rarely.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477202067

Henry Tedeschi

Henry Tedeschi has a background in science. A graduate of the University of Chicago he has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois Medical Center (Chicago) and the State University of New York at Albany. He has written numerous technical articles, several technical book chapters, a monograph and two printed editions of a textbook in Cell Biology (Academic Press and W.C. Brown) One additional edition was placed on the web. Born in Italy he was sent to boarding school in Switzerland when Mussolini’s racial laws prevented him from attending school in Italy. He spent several formative years in Argentina. He left at age 17 when he emigrated to the U.S. to attend college at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written fiction and poetry all his life for his own pleasure. He abandoned his first project, a novel, at age six or seven because he decided he lacked experience, a sensation that still haunts him. He enjoys writing, particularly short stories. He finds writing fiction revealing. It opens a window into observed details of human behavior, times and places that are otherwise ignored. He has published with authorhouse or iUniverse two mysteries (A Day at a Time and Double) and six books of short stories (Three for the Road, Long and Short Stories and More Long and Short Stories, Small Steps, Tales of Past and Present and More Tales of Past and Present) .

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/18/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-0207-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-0206-7 (e)

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Contents

Faucet Poems

Custoza

Elsewhere

My love

The empty road

A thousand faces

Dust

Song of the moon

and the stars

Infinite shame

A walk with the sun

and the clouds

The road to nowhere

How come

Poems Of Orneriness And Incredible Insight

The dance of the gnomes

Tweedle and Twaddle

Ode to a cliché

The dragon

Beware

Ruminations

Afterthoughts

The dance

Repost

The faces of death

The dice of history

The poem

Fire in the belly

Power

Harry

Riddles

Thanks to three women

Two sisters

The city talks I

The city talks II

Love poem I

Love poem II

The smile

The funeral

a prophecy overheard

in Lausanne in 1940 by a cynical child

Daisies

Shopping center: 1991

The heart of cactus

Winter mountain

Murmurs And Sighs

The quiet enemy

The elephant

on tippytoes

The river

Duo in a soliloquy

of an old teacher

The little girl that

could tell no lies

Cement and dreams

Flowers

Trust

Love

One at a time

Just as the song says

Dedicated to the memory of Walter Damus, teacher

There are echoes

Bits And Pieces

Queen Anne’s Lace and Blue Violet Flowers

Fields of Yellow

Betrayal

Aces

Almost forgotten truths

The yellow frame house

Years Go By

Baruch

Irony

Buttercups

Remember the Future

Ciao! Bye! Bye!

The arrival

The past

The game

Luck

Natalie 2001

Dreams

Destruction: 2001

Days of Winter

True Love

The End

Twenty-four hours

Mist

Obfuscation

Love and Hate

Aging

Amy at Ten Months

The Day Gone

Waiting

USA

The sea

When does a building

gain a soul?

Love III

SCOTTSDALE 2005

MEMORIES

Phantoms Dancing

LIMITS

END NOTES

Faucet Poems

1989

Custoza

Long bones, yellow bones, the neatly stacked muskets

and the rusty cutlery of war in the pyramid of defeat

youthful dreams of glory and a fool on horseback

for whom vacuous ambition and mistaken destiny

confused courage with strength

and the fool who would live one day as a lion

but managed twenty three years as a jackal

Elsewhere

I’m going nowhere

from elsewhere

home is miles away

atavistic hate behind me

is chasing me to the rainbows,

atavistic will is with me

showing me the way

you may have the legions of hate,

I have the love of parents

and the cunning of centuries to tell me that I will win

and you will be an evil illusion

destroyed by the rocks of time

My love

(dedicated to Terry)

You are the total sum of life

the elements of nature

the lust and passion

the quiet caring

you are the evening storm

the morning drizzle

the afternoon sunny calm

you are the love of my life.

The empty road

Clickety-clack clickety-clack

from the sharp heels on the road

between the flooded