Rosetta

By John Ryan

As the first two books of poems published by Chipminka
clearly showed, John has experienced severe mental
problems due to a savage sexual assault and rape.
This volume
shows the therapeutic and cathartic value of the act of
writing in overcoming such problems.
This is a good example of attention to the daily habit of
creativity.
John, in this volume, clearly demonstrates how writing
has transformed a series of major personal problems
into opportunitiesabove all, the opportunity to
transform his most intimate musings into a fascinating
series of poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479777426

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Copyright © 2013 by John Ryan.

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CONTENTS

Light

Little Christmas

Rosetta

Canvas Music

January

Van Gogh’s Cypresses

Blue, Blue Sky

One Cold January Morning

Wintry Night

Awaiting Spring

Winter Rains

Early Spring

Happy Times

Waiting For The Spring

Twittering

An Old Man Alone

High Wind

Inspiration

Eternal Questions

The Faeries

The Glazed Leaf

Ruminating

The Inevitable

Premonitions

Silence

Meditating At Noon

Croom

The Rhododendron Bush: February 1St.

Holding Hands

Loved Ones

Primeval Call

Torun

The Lamb

The Damp Night Air

A Smile

The Flowerbud

Spring In The Step

The Ducklings

The Lonely Sky

For A Moment’s Joy

For I Might Go That Far

The Chestnuts In Bloom

Easter

Words

Premonitions

Gorse In Bloom

Inner Presence

Verdi’s Requiem

True Friends

A Poem

Meditation

Come And Meet Me

Chirping

The Robin Redbreast

The Greenhouse

The Rain

Older Now

Misty Times

Holiday Time

Midnight Beavering

Peeping At The Roses

The Butterfly

Damp Soil

Lullaby

Breezy

Downpour

Fifty Years Ago Today

The Morning After

Plato

Independence

Roses

On The Mend

Positivism

Breakfast

Late August

Human Nature

Back In Bedlam

Changed Times

The Power Of Poetry

Early September

The Woods

Summer Evening

September

A New-Born Poem

Mid-Morning

An Emigrant Alone

Too Many Books

Time To Stop

9/11 Ten Years On

September Gales

Dedicated to

Ania Zatorska

Also by John Ryan

Like a Fine Piece of China

Arcadia

As the first two books of poems published by Chipminka

clearly showed, John has experienced severe mental

problems due to a savage sexual assault and rape.

This volume

shows the therapeutic and cathartic value of the act of

writing in overcoming such problems.

This is a good example of attention to the daily habit of

creativity.

John, in this volume, clearly demonstrates how writing

has transformed a series of major personal problems

into opportunities—above all, the opportunity to

transform his most intimate musings into a fascinating

series of poems.

LIGHT

I wake unto darkness. the previous night’s

process is now in place, in reverse: light

slowly takes charge of its early shift.

Some few fear the light, most take it as it

comes, nothing remarkable, they say. Those

hardy souls who work through the night, also

welcome light as a sentinel, it augurs well

for the new day ahead.

Just now, the night-creatures have bolted to

their lairs while others shake-off the drowsiness

of sleep and slowly scratch themselves awake.

And as the light envelopes all, so the dew has

cast her spell on a million blades of grass, icycold,

sweating cold. Nature already working

overtime in total silence, and yet not so, for

close-up the myriad sounds of rising sap are

there for all to hear.

LITTLE CHRISTMAS

6th of January: time to fell the

festive tree which gave such

pleasure during these two

weeks.