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    Reason to Be
    Reason to Be
    Reason to Be
    Ebook96 pages15 minutes

    Reason to Be

    By Arizona

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    A Collaboration of Arizonas Poetry and NASAs Hubble Images
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateSep 4, 2013
    ISBN9781490708171
    Reason to Be
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    Arizona

    A Collaboration of Arizona’s Poetry and NASA’s Hubble Images

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      Book preview

      Reason to Be - Arizona

      Contents

      Chapter 1 Faith Faith In Friendship

      A Birth Of A King

      A Birthday Wish

      A Christmas Poem

      A World Without You

      Dessert Rose

      If I Could Be With You

      Reflections of a Star

      Shadow

      The Cross

      Chapter 2 Love

      Our Love

      A Journey To The Moon

      A Passage Through Time

      A Stolen Kiss

      An Epic Love

      I Would Give You Heaven

      Once In A Lifetime

      Passion

      Raison D’etre

      Timeless

      Turbulence

      Chapter 3 Honor

      343 Never Forget

      A Battle Cry

      A Candle Burns For You

      A Century Of Hope

      Fortunes Of War

      I Won’t Be Coming Home

      Independence Day

      My Li’l Man

      Red - White and Blue

      Serving For The Greater Good

      Chapter 4 Memories And Dreams

      A Moment In Time

      Dreams

      Endless Tears

      Fingerprint Upon My Heart

      In Flight

      Memories

      The Color Of A Rainbow

      The Color Of Wind

      Unspoken Love

      When Beautiful And Purple Combine

      Your Name

      You’ve Gone Away

      A Means to an End

      A Very Special Thank You

      Permission for the use of the Hubble Space Telescope images

      was gracefully granted by

      Space Telescope Science Institute Copyright

      (STScl)

      hubblesite.org Copyright support ISSUE = 1310 PROJ =15: Hubble Images

      OPO Copyright

      Material credited to STScl on this site was created, authored, and/or

      prepared for NASA under contract NAS5-26555

      My personal thanks to

      NASA, STScl, and all who took part with the Hubble Telescope.

      Without the Hubble Images, my poetry in Reason to Be

      would be just words.

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