Decisions 2000 & 8: Revisited Edition

By Jakob Chapman

Featuring award-winning poems, this collection of poetry captures the pleasant dynamic of everyday life along with the unexpected complications. Decisions 2000 & 8 is poetry anyone can enjoy.

This Revisited edition includes new ebook format and revisions of several of the poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312880559

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Copyright © 2015 by Jakob Chapman

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-312-88055-9

Hosehead Publishing

Chimacum, Washington

United States

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Introduction

The year 2008 was a year of decisions for a young poet whose life was finally falling into place. 2008 marked my return to my birthplace, a change of Universities, not voting for a new president, meeting my wife, getting engaged to my wife, and eventually marrying her (with a few days to spare!). Along with being a year of change, 2008 was a year of poetry—images, words, and emotion. I decided to put together a collection of poetry based on the writing of about one year (a few borrowed from 2007 and a couple put together in early 2009). The name of the collection was not difficult to decide as I reviewed what I had written throughout the year. I decided to write a second poem with the same title to wrap up the collection. It was interesting to watch this collection unfold. Hopefully, I paint 2008 in its proper light, a clutch of difficultly / easy decisions in a kaleidoscope of hope.

—Jakob Chapman

Revision note:

Preparing this collection for digital sale, provided me with the opportunity to revisit the poems in the collection. The changes are minor and I feel they are for the better. One poem I did not change was Little Milton, which remains in its original form as it was written in 2008 (4 years before Ian Anderson's Thick as a Brick