100 Shades of Greene: One Man’S View of a Rainbow

By Hank Greene

100 Shades of Greene has poems, verses and short stories about life's
emotions and dreams. It is about feelings, about lost love,about new love and family. It is about God and spirit, about birth and death, joy and pain. Things that touch all of us in our lifetime.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491829554

Hank Greene

Hank Greene was born in Rockford Illinois in 1941. He is the father of 4 children and has 2 step-children along with seven grandchildren. He and his wife Judy live in Warren, Ohio. Hank has been writing poetry, verse and short stories and the shades of life, past, present and future since the 1960’s. He introduces his poems and verse from life experience and the shades of emotions one can go through at different points of a life. He writes about life, love, passion, pain and faith along with the Native American spirit and his love for riding motorcycles.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Shades Of Life

Birth

Motherhood

Wedding Picture

My Baby

A Mothers Love

Father Time

Just Like A Little Girl

Saving Me

Grandson

Artist

Word Painting

Changing

The Piano

St. Pete Beach

The Black

The Chair

Chapter 2 Shades Of Connection

Searching For Your Spirit

One In A Million

All Woman

Fate

Surrounded

Ahh—

You’re Heart Of Gold

My Judy

Chapter 3 Shades Of Love

What Is Love

Wisp Of Love

Forbidden Love

Intense Love

Sweetness

Our Love

Your Eyes

Love In A Box

Chapter 4 Shades Of Pain

Lonely Man

Solitude

Is Sorry The End

Cards Of Fate

Chapter 5 Shades Of Passion

Vision Of You

Passion

Pretty Lady

Universal Passion

Erotic Touch

Pink Dreams

She Touched Me There

Images In The Mirror

One Single Strawberry

Ashes Of Passion

Chapter 6 Shades Of Peace

Bliss

The Flower

Chapter 7 Shades Of Loss

When You Are Gone

Missing You

Longing

What I Need

I Did Not

How Does Love Die?

How Do I

Her Last Rose

Cemetery

Wind And Me

Chapter 8 Shades Of Time

In A Minute

Spending Time

Time Bank

Tomorrow

Time Barrier

A Day Without You

Don’t Speak For Tomorrow

Life’s Path

1999

Chapter 9 Shades Of Faith

Faith

Healing

Getting Well

Walking

Chapter 10 Shades Of Humor

Humor

Quackin Up

Help

Mall Walking

Traffic Quilt

The Hat

The Boys

Horses In The Road

Chapter 11 Shades Of The Seasons

Summertime

Rain

Florida Sunshine

Sunset Key

As Autumn

Snow

Winter Scene

Chapter 12 Shades Of Home

Outside The Window

As You Travel

Coming Home

Moving In

Home

It Is Here

Amish Country

Chapter 13 Shades Of Spirit

My Spirit Is Strong

Tale Of Chief Co’le

Princess Spirit Finder

Brothers

Indian Love

A Chiefs Love

Smiling Eyes

Chapter 14 Shades Of Chrome

My Harley

Why Do I Ride

The Old Biker & The Boy

Hd Lady

My Fair Lady

Riding To Hell

Chapter 15 Tell Tale Shades

South Dakota And Beyond

The Woman Always Pays

This book is dedicated to my children Michael, Christine, Tracy and Daniel and also my step children Dayna and Darin. To my wife Judy who believed in me, inspired and supported me throughout the process. I can’t thank her enough. I love you all.

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CHAPTER 1

Shades of Life

Birth

We are born,

Dependent on love and care

Childhood

Walking, talking, schooling, lessons we learn

Grown

Working, loving, making mistakes,

Teaching our own

Elderly

Happiness, sadness, sickness

Our history we see

From all who follow

The family tree

Motherhood

She is a 14 year old baby

having a baby,

alone and scared

in a hospital labor room

A doctor, how can he have this calling

When he wants to teach

The little girl a lesson

As the young girl suffers

Through hours of labor

This man who calls himself a doctor

Gives no medication

to relieve her from the pain… .

she must endure

The little girl so fragile herself

Finally delivers

A baby girl

And begins Motherhood

Wedding Picture

Painting, the picture

The canvas of life,

beginning this day

becoming man and wife

Dipping the brush, we begin

Our work of art,

From this moment until

Death do us part

Starting with pastels

Touches of red and blue

Flashes of orange,

Streaks of green and purple too

In the finished portrait

There will be silver and gold

For sickness and health,

To have and to hold

Finally a dab of white

Dark shadows complete

Our picture of married life

My Baby

You have been given to me

I promise to love and care

I will teach you the lessons of life

I will always be there

I hold you as you sleep

I touch your tiny face

With my fingers your eyes,

Nose and face I trace

Your hands and your feet

I check them all

You are so perfect

My child my love

As I hold you,

I thank my loving God from above

A Mothers Love

When I was born

The voice I heard

Was the same one

It was you Mom

The one who hummed to me

And told me I would be loved

When I was a child,

It was you Mom,

Who taught me right from wrong

How to give and take

And to get along

When I was a young adult

It was you Mom

Who taught me to do

A day’s work for a day’s pay

To search for the silver lining

And to find a rainbow

After a rainy day

And now that I am grown

I watch as you still teach

It is you Mom

Telling me to never give up

It’s possible to get

What’s just beyond my reach

It is you Mom

I thank you

For the gifts you gave,

The love, the understanding,

The forgiveness, the thoughtfulness

And to know that God blesses

A Mothers Love

Father Time

While your Dad is with you

Why not spend one hour with him

Go to visit or make a call

While he is living

He is your link to the past

He knows the answers

To the questions you will ask

Take the time to forgive and let go

As the man you have become, he will