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    To Breathe
    To Breathe
    To Breathe
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    To Breathe

    By Melanie Duncan

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    To Breathe takes the reader on a captivating journey depicting everyday musings to recollections of carefree times. Melanie Duncan's poetry expresses both

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateJun 24, 2020
    ISBN9781760419349
    To Breathe
    Author

    Melanie Duncan

    Melanie Duncan resides in Logan City Queensland. Her previous publications by Ginninderra Press include Looking Through the Glass (2006) and To While Away (2017), a chapbook in the Ginninderra Press Pocket Poets series.

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      Book preview

      To Breathe - Melanie Duncan

      To Breathe

      To Breathe

      Melanie Duncan

      Ginninderra Press

      To Breathe

      ISBN 978 1 76041 934 9

      Copyright © text Melanie Duncan 2020

      Cover photo: homecare119 from Pixabay

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2020 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      To Breathe

      Acknowledgements

      To Breathe

      To Breathe

      The words

      Must breathe

      In birdsong and ease

      Or convey

      Every breaking sun.

      The lyrical soul

      Is an aperture of beauty.

      Seashells

      Watch the array of shells and rocks

      I collect in bare hands,

      As I bathe each one

      In waters of blue;

      I bask in the noon sun

      As the light radiates

      Their glistening hue.

      The Stars in the Sky

      Flying my kite in the nonchalant air

      Of

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