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    Divergences: Collected Poems of Frederic L. Johnson
    Divergences: Collected Poems of Frederic L. Johnson
    Divergences: Collected Poems of Frederic L. Johnson
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    Divergences: Collected Poems of Frederic L. Johnson

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    "A collection of poetry that is flavored by the seasons of New England, the colors of human contact and emotion, and a myriad of clear and readily understandable verse and metaphor. "Divergences" will truly lead you down pathways of wonder."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781466971158
    Divergences: Collected Poems of Frederic L. Johnson

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      Divergences - Trafford Publishing

      © Copyright 2012 Frederic L. Johnson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-7116-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-7115-8 (e)

      Trafford rev. 12/04/2012

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      North America & international

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      Contents

      Part One Seasons & Nature

      Stick Season

      Autumn

      Spring Awakens

      Spring

      The Route

      Quiet Void

      The Chilling Season

      Dog Days

      Awakening

      Dandelion

      Part Two People, Places, Dreams, And Things

      The Cellar

      A Can Of Beer

      Two Points Of View

      To My Love

      The Parrot

      Universal Wonder

      Little Blessings

      The Growth Of Boys

      Interim Desire

      Nightmares

      Changing Plains

      Part Three Times And Tales

      Sometime, Someplace

      Assent In The Making

      Night School

      The Tunnel’s End

      A Pleasant Conversation

      To A Leeward Spirit

      Warning!

      A Christmas Ode

      Pessimism

      The Wanderer

      This book is dedicated to Susan and Francis Bass who helped me find the music and the rhyme.

      Thank-you to my Mother, without whose support this work would never have come to be.

      PART ONE

      Seasons & Nature

      Stick Season

      Stately slate gray naked trees

      Against a patch of dirty ashen sky

      Inside dogs and cats surround me

      Outside, not a squirrel, or bird to fly

      The garden’s gone to bed now

      No white blanket yet beneath its chin

      For cover in its sleeping months

      Ground’s too hard to see where you have

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