Look Beyond

By David Meyerhof

We all face emotional upheavals in our lives. How can we cope with such events? Life is a series of ups, downs, twists, and turns. Through constant struggles, one wonders about the purpose and reasons behind life's events. We need ways to handle these situations and go on with our lives. This book is a collection of sixty of my thought-provoking poems which allows readers to look beyond what life has to offer.

Laugh. Cry. Smile. Think. Emotions will touch your heart, and reach your soul, as you explore my poems. You will question what you know, discover a new perspective on life, and embark on a journey of inspiration and affirmation. Open your mind, and look beyond.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477144060

David Meyerhof

David Meyerhof is a retired middle school teacher who taught thirty-three years in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He taught math and science to sixth-grade honors students at Florence Nightingale Middle School. He lives with his wife of 33 years in Burbank, California. His parents escaped from Germany and survived the Holocaust. His father was a physics professor at Stanford University for forty-three years. His mother took care of children in Anna Freuds Nursery in London during World War II. Davids grandfather, Otto, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the relationship between oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid in muscles.

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LookBeyond

BY DAVID MEYERHOF

Copyright © 2012 by David Meyerhof.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2012912676

ISBN:      Hardcover     978-1-4771-4405-3

                Softcover       978-1-4771-4404-6

                Ebook            978-1-4771-4406-0

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Contents

Acknowledgments

When Your World is Turned Upside Down, How Do You Make It Right Side Up?

Step Up to the Plate

No One Can Take It Away From You

An Artificial Peace

Pain

When She Cries Out

My Father’s Hand

Tears to Flowers

Hope on the Horizon

Incongruity

Convoluted Soul

The Team of Arrogance and Ignorance

Welcome to the State of Denial

Struggle

Forward or Backward

Steel Yourself

The Future

Silence

The Day Is Slipping Away

Here, But Not Here

Spirit

Dust to Heart

Breath

Poem to My Father

Hope

White Dove

Roll of the Dice

How I Feel

Demon of Death

Next

From Paradise to Hell in a Few Hours

Cascade

More

My Heart Burns

The March of Light

Pieces of Numb

Melting Reality

Cry

A Lifetime

Echoes of Silence

What Came Through

Every Step

Every Night

Fountain of Youth

Little Sparrow in the Rain

Sleep

Leaves

Time

Hugs

Scrabble

Serena with Grace

Life on the Run

Accident

Expectation

Convergence

The Study

And It Rained Upon the Land

Help Yourself

The Sounds

For Love

To my wife Carol, my son Matthew, my mother Miriam,

my father Walter, my brother Michael,

and all my former students

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife Carol for her support and patience, my mother Miriam for her support, my son Matthew for his comments and ideas which were so helpful, JSTS Transcription Service, especially Victoria, for