A New Dawning

By Ron Whisler

Being in love gives you that euphoric feeling of being on top of the world where nothing can reach you, any pain or sorrow, only happiness. Then if your world is shattered by those words of good bye & farewell, I must leave you now... You plunge into a dismal abyss of hurt and loneliness, it's the end of your world, or so it seems. If you've been down this path you will relate to these poems and grasp their meanings. It was once said 'The line between joy and pain is mighty thin when love enters in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496913647

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© 2014 Ron Whisler. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse   07/01/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-1363-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-1364-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014911892

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CONTENTS

I Cannot Survive

Mad Pace (Pg 1)

Mad Pace (Pg 2)

Tomorrow’s Love

World Of Woe (Pg1)

World Of Woe (Pg 2)

Watching The World

Break Away

The Answer

My Friend

My Friend(Bsk)

Maybe Today

Tomorrow’s Light

Look At Me

I’ll Keep Going On

My Hearts Speaks For Me

Tears

I Remember Love

My Guiding Light

Look Upward

Lift Me

Harvest Time

Dreams

My Buddy(Lfs)

My Buddy (2)

A Friend

My Day

A Wish

A Longing Dream

My Missing Heart

Recollection

The Cover Up

Autumn

My Special Gal (5-11-69)

My Special Gal Pg.2

What Now?

I Know You

Then It Rained

Carry Me Into Tomorrow

Where To Next

The Smiles

Your Smile

Exit Strategy

Lonesome

Thinking

Sounds Of The Day

Worth It

Night Angel

Vortex

Apparitions

Getting Up

Are You Listening

Music To Me

Abandonment

Why

What’s Worse

The Tide

Communication Breakdown

Empty Days

Unattached

Quiet Time

If I Told You

Reruns

Home

Adrift

Test

Loneliness

A Point In Time

The Journey

Erosion

The Colony

The Fix

It’s In The Air

Who’s Said That?

Now It’s Clear

Ultimate Dream

Leaving The Scene

The Climb Out

Bar Harbor

Therapy

Two Lights

Stupefied

The Cycle

Warranty Expired

What’s Left?

The Timeless Scenario

Rock Or Roll

The Smile

The Door

Time Base

See Me

Silent Communications

Silence Of Love

Gravity Works

Time Out

Speechless

Dream On

Forever

Sleepless In Nod

I Once Had A True Love Pg1

I Once Had A True Love Pg2

Once There Was You

The Raging Sea

The Unknown Day

Don’t Stare

Play On

Facade

Long Distance

Mirror, Mirror

Solitude

The Igloo

Rainy Days Can Be Good

Forever

Ashes Of Love

The Name

Stay Tuned

My Dream

My Dungeon

The Pain

The Answer?

A Change

Odd Man Out

Raging Storm

Meaningful

Stranger

Time Is Short

The Original

I See You Everywhere (Pg-1)

Pg-2

(Pg-3)

The Blank Landscape

The Yearning

Words

Prisoner

New Day Approaching

Warm Winds

Space

Rotation

Will I Be Heard?

W T F

The Pattern

Faulty

Mutant Growth

What I Am

Sundays

Message Decoded

Epicenter

Daily Diary

Remembrance

My Anxiety

An Offer

Euphoria

Mystic Melodies

The Festering

The Light

My Clock

Vision

The Spark

Insatiable

A Melodic Journey

My Eve

At First

A Mirror

Coexistence

My Demands

Total Recall

Across The Table

Lean On Me

Holding On

Didn’t Mean To - - -

Who Said That

My Task

Lost

The Final Frontier

Storm Front

A Sign

Empty Gloves

The Loneliness

Nightly Shadows

Your Chair

So Far Away

The Stone

Moving On?

Words By A Very Special Friend

I would like to dedicate this book to a very dear person, Carol Taktikian.

She has been with me these past three years, following the passing of my wife Joanne.

She prodded and pulled me from the dark depth I had gotten myself into with drink and self pity. The music we play is one of the joys in my life. She has helped me to see that Joanne is still with us in spirit. With her help and guidance, she has shown me a new way of facing life, for which I am truly thankful. Her encouragement and kindness through our music has brought me out of the dark and into a higher and enlightened way of seeing the Universe and all within it. I am truly thankful for her being in my life.

Thank you Carol, with much love I am truly grateful.

I CANNOT SURVIVE

A lonely and nothingness eating inside me,

An empty feeling is something I can’t bear.

Unreal and meaningless words cannot cover,

My need for true love that is not there.

You cannot control love, it’s much to powerful,

It runs its own course, you can’t hold it back.

It should drive you delirious, and make you surrender

Yourself to your true love ’till nothing does lack.

It’s not a game to be played for amusement,

It’s not something to be taken in turn.

You can’t use it lightly and without feeling,

It’s not in a book or something to learn.

Real love has no boundaries, nor set rules to follow,

No patterns can guide you or show you the way.

No one can show you where to find it,

Only you’ll know what to do or say.

Never take it for granted or just being there,

Don’t try to time it or turn it off or on.

It should come first and ever so often,

Or it shall slip away like the dark at dawn.

I’m bursting with love still in me to give,

But I’ve been denied it, my heart seem to tear.

Each day seems so long, what can I do,

I cannot survive if love is not there…

MAD PACE (pg 1)

Mad pace

Rat race,

On and on

Dusk till dawn.

Do your best,

Who’s impressed?

Work hard,

Get barred,

By nicety

Of society.

Why worry,

Don’t hurry,

Sink fast,

Won’t last.

Played the game

Lost in vain.

Love’s pain

Hurts the same

As war’s game,

Makes lame.

Friends part,

Broken heart.

MAD PACE (pg 2)

Memories last

Of days past.

Emotions seep

Hurting deep.

Dark days,

Gloomy haze

Lies ahead,

Like the dead.

Time saves

Empty graves,

Filled by

The average guy.

Dark clouds

Make shrouds

Of dirty scorns

As no one mourns.

Lonely light

In the night

Can’t make it

Won’t fake it.

Maybe I’ll cry

but I’ll try…

TOMORROW’S LOVE

I walk in the light yet no shadow falls,

I listen for my name but no one calls.

I run to the window at each noise I hear,

Only to find that you’re not there.

My mind is running wild and free,

Reflections of times that use to be,

In the light of the day those memories glow,

To brighten the path that now I must go.

Alone in a crowd but no one knows,

This feeling inside me, my God how it grows.

Infectiously creeping, sometimes it distorts me,

It warms my body, it’s my reason to be.

The days are now empty and time is just a word,

My mind only listens to the past I have heard.

Aimless directions my body does wander,

In the sea of the past I float and ponder.

But yet I have visions of times yet to come,

This too is my hope that powers me on.

Excited by thoughts of life yet to live,

My emotions are burning with love yet to give.

My love will come forth with such tenderness,

That would shatter life to it’s nakedness.

So smile my love, let’s have no more sorrow,

My love for you will fill each tomorrow…

WORLD OF WOE (pg1)

I stand in the shadow of noon,

As the sign of

Reviews for A New Dawning

[jechtshot · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The Dawning of a New Age is the first book in "The Fifth Age" series in the Dragonlance Universe. This is my first experience with books: a) not written by Weis and Hickman and b) outside of the "classic" series of the books. My response: average. The story contained all of the requisite swordplay, magic and intrigue, but let's face it, Dhamon does not as of yet have the breadth of a character like Sturm, Tanis or Caramon.The Dragonlance series is my siren song. If I am looking for a book to get lost in I frequently turn to the Dragonlance series and this book did provide everything I needed to fuel my addiction. However, if you are new to this world stick the true masters of the realm: Weis & Hickman.

[dirtpriest_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I'm not a fan of those ubiquitous Fabio on the cover romance novels, and this is as close to one as I plan to get. On the whole, it's not bad, well written and a good story, but Jean Rabe is obviously of the female persuasion. That comes through with all the spontaneous arm grabbing and kissing, as well as her stoic lead warrior Dhamon. 'I only believe in things that are real, like my sword," black leather pants wearing, flowing blond hair with rippling muscles, and even an embroidered shirt with poofy sleeves, which he takes any and every chance to rip off and flex his gleaming rippling muscles.Reading this book, and I presume the whole series, is like reading a fair to middling Dragonlance tale with an occasional Danielle Steele page thrown in. Of course, the real star of the book is Feril, a druid-like (at least D&D druid-like) super sexy wood-elf babe (a Kagonesti, for those that demand technical accuracy) that always saves the day with her powerful and inventive nature magic. Part of the storyline is that the gods have all abandoned Krynn after the Chaos War, taking all of the magic with them, which was the subject of Dragons of Summer Flame. There is a review in my prior thread. In fact, this book starts off right at the end of DoSF. Right after. Then, within a few chapters, huge dragons have taken over the entire realm and have spent thirty years terraforming the land to their tastes, killing off most of the mass of dragons to aquire their powers and enslaving the people. That takes some of the charm out of it for me, as I liked the old Krynn, the one that has been in my mind since the late 80's. This trilogy is also the link between the old Weis & Hickman classics and their new Fifth Age trilogy, so I have to suffer through it. I started Dragons of a Lost Moon or whatever that series starts with and was instantly lost. That's how I found out there were remedial requirements.The bulk of the book (and series) sets Dhamon, Feril, Rig the sea captain, Jaster, who is the nephew of Flint Fireforge, and an ubiquitous kender, along with Palin Majere, against the few remaining dragon overlords. Palin is the son of Caramon and nephew of Raistlin, refer back to my old thread through the link at the top of the page or just check out wikipedia's DragonLance page if you care.How much of the story here is Mrs. Rabe's and how much is from TSR/Weis and Hickman might make for an interesting debate. My bet goes on her having been given an outline from an editorial staff and she fleshed it out into a novel. That's how TSR has always worked, except that almost all of the authors were heavily involved in setting up the game worlds (TSR is the old publisher and creator of Dungeons and Dragons-Thanks Gary Gygax for the decades of fun). They would sit around and role-play several versions of a story and pick the parts they liked best and make up the rest. Much of the huge output of TSR was at least pretty good, but some was awful. This ranks well above the awful, but well below the best. Douglas Niles is consistently good, as is R.A. Salvatore and W&H, but some are so bad that I found them unreadable. Azure Bonds was so bad that I couldn't read the rest of the Finder's Stone trilogy, which was a very early Forgotten Realms series, maybe its first crappy one. There would be more, but in general I think the TSR books are good. For a scathing review of a total dud, check out my review of Once Around the Realms. It's the first of the two.

[nighthawk_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Not a great book but maybe a good beginning for the series. Good character build and a couple twists. Way better than the 1/2 star that "robinchristine" gave it. Looking forward to reading book two “The Day Of The Tempest.”