Fear
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Fear is a poetic sequence of events in one mans life, beginning with the discovery of his unconditional love for his child, the loss of that child, his descent into depression, anxiety and panic disorder, guilt complex, and prescription drug addiction as a result of that loss, and his gradual recovery. He is now able to forgive himself of his guilt for this loss, love again, and regain his ability to live his life with a new commitment to Christ..
Ronald E. Henshaw
Ronald E. Henshaw was born in Houston, Texas in 1941. He lived and was raised there until he was eighteen years old and graduated from high school. In 1960, Ronald entered the US Army and served in Army Intelligence for three years in what was then West Germany. He traveled extensively in Europe for three years on various assignments to France, Italy, and Scandinavia. When he returned to the States, he entered the University of Houston, majoring in English literature. Upon leaving the university, he became an over-the-road truck driver and traveled the US for almost thirty years. Ronald Henshaw is now employed as operations manager for a pipe company in Houston, mainly concerned with the transportation operation of this company. He has been writing poetry for the majority of his life, and this book is the consummation of that work.
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Fear - Ronald E. Henshaw
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ISBN: 978-1-4908-2424-6 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902137
WestBow Press rev. date: 02/04/2014
Contents
Part I – the Tragedy
1. Advent
2. Circles
3. The Breaking of the Light
4. The Stone
5. Early Morning
6. Forbidden
7. The Open Sea
8. Night. Ride. Home.
9. Eternal is the Night
10. Omen
11. As You Lay Down to Sleep
12. The Carpenter’s Tools
13. Absalom
14. A Natural Thing
15. The Shattered Mirror
16. Solitude
17. Cold Front
18. Time and the Wind
19. The Lotus Tree
20. The Beast
21. Nightmare
22. Parasite
23. Black
24. Eyes
25. The Sum of All My Seasons
26. Fear
Part II – Epiphany
27. Dawn
28. The Center of the Circle
29. The Sixth Day
30. The Gift
For my wife,
Linda McKnight Henshaw,
the most wonderful person that I have ever known.
001_a_hjhjhjh.JPGsb10069456f001.JPGsb10069456e001.JPGPart I
the Tragedy
As it was in the beginning….
"….among Fear’s long mountains…."
004_a_hjhjhjh.jpgAdvent
Haiku
When I began to….
When I learned to…. love….t’was then
I began to fear.
006_a_hjhjhjh.jpgCircles
She had a flawless face, and fair, over-blown with her blond
hair, down all about the shoulder, diaphanous the eyes, and
Blue, but elegant, not bold, her limbs long, the dream of Dance,
the nightmare of Virtue, the perfect wave unwinding on my
Virgin shore of youth.
Songs we heard, oh, and sang them, every word. And then,
among the after-wavelets, little ringlets, our love became like
Something satellites do swing upon, touching only as we passed,
and at the last, released, she, moved on, to a farther star, thrusting,
Empty and