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    Phoenix
    Phoenix
    Phoenix
    Ebook136 pages27 minutes

    Phoenix

    By Chris Daugherty

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    Phoenix is a book of poetry for people of all backgrounds who enjoy reading or writing poetry. Ranging from sublimely inspirational to cleverly kitschy, the poems enumerated here comprise a litany of the observations of a poet who portrays tales of illumination and triumph over adversity with a colorful intimation of the human lexicon. Whether a budding pupil, accomplished scholar, or casual reader, you are bound to find identity with the rhymes outlined in this collection of poems written between 2009 and 2012. To see more poems by this writer and learn more about writing poetry, be sure to check out www.facebook.com/poetryphoenix.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 7, 2013
    ISBN9781481701013
    Phoenix
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    Chris Daugherty

    Chris Daugherty is a poet from Decatur, Georgia. He is an author whose poetry has been featured in numerous books. Mr. Daugherty is a Veteran of service to the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army, having served honorably for four years before embarking on a career of writing. He writes poetry with the purpose of inspiring people of all walks of life to greatness and has composed many original works of poetry encouraging others to write. Mr. Daugherty has been dubbed an “Urban Romantic” by one critic, and his works feature themes ranging from nature to the divine and beyond. In the words of the author, “My goal is to keep traditional metered verse alive by writing poems atavistic to the style of great American poets such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Edgar Allan Poe. Kindle your forge and keep the ink flowing.”

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      Book preview

      Phoenix - Chris Daugherty

      © 2013 by Chris Daugherty. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 12/20/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0103-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0102-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0101-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923879

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Majestic

      Always

      Artemis

      Reminisce

      Majestic

      This Girl I Know

      Grey Sark

      Shamanic

      Through the Rain

      Metaman I

      15 Yard Line

      The Man

      Rain

      Majestic

      Gaia

      Yeast

      Titans of the Swell

      Thespian

      Majestic

      Do you welcome the winking night?

      Huntress

      Yet a Fantasy

      The Sun

      The Maidens Fair

      APFT

      NEMO

      In the City

      Scene

      Gateway

      The Stereotypes

      Façade

      Amaranthine Orchid

      Cherry and Homie

      Mother

      Restless Planet

      Eos

      Common Senses

      Cosmo

      Not So Random

      Raven Plume

      What an Act

      Write for Each New Day

      Winsome Tree

      Sage

      Estate

      The Shadow Lies

      Black Hole

      If Willing

      Desire

      Epigrams

      Rose

      Speak to me

      Don’t Dwell Upon the Past

      Faery

      Supernovary

      That is the Name

      Spring Unfurling

      Mythos

      We

      Cardinal

      Majestic

      I

      Breathtaking beauty of nature—Behold

      A sky filled with violet, crimson, and gold.

      Lavender mountains alive with ink hues

      Of indigo poignant and oceans of blues

      Exclaim to the heavens O volley and sow

      A serpentine valley in rivers below!

      Empyreal Indra obliges their cry,

      A hammering cascade of grey his reply.

      The ranges awaken to dawn smaragdine,

      A spectrum of dew scintillating the scene.

      Ethereal silver on every cloud

      Reflects the succession of peaks they enshroud.

      Not only chartreuse, the bold meadows delight

      In transient shades arrayed sable to white,

      Magnificent pigment the world to display—

      A hope of tomorrow, the truth of today.

      Sirens keen their

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