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    Expressions of the Soul: A Selection Of Poems
    Expressions of the Soul: A Selection Of Poems
    Expressions of the Soul: A Selection Of Poems
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    Expressions of the Soul: A Selection Of Poems

    By Denise Cory Blake

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    As an author, I love words, descriptive, poetic, lyrical. To express my feelings in rhyme, has a certain rhythm, a cadence to it. It's almost like music, fingers delicately poised upon the scales, drawing out the magic of the written word. It's not always that it has to rhyme, sometimes it is not needed..

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookTrail Publishing
    Release dateNov 17, 2020
    ISBN9781953731494
    Expressions of the Soul: A Selection Of Poems
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    Denise Cory Blake

    I have been writing historical novels for the last four or five years now. This is my latest offering, born of an inquisitive, inquiring mind, which despite my advancing years refuses to lay dormant. I keep coming up with new storylines. Long may I do so!

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      Expressions of the Soul - Denise Cory Blake

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      Copyright © 2020 by Denise Cory Blake

      Paperback: 978-1-953731-26-5

      eBook: 978-1-953731-49-4

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020920845

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of nonfiction.

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      Table of Contents

      Nature’s Conversation

      The Owl’s Delight

      Fairy Dust

      A Dog

      Parroting About!

      ……Charlie!

      Piggy

      Whimsy!

      A Horse’s Tale (Tail!)

      Puppies!

      Pasha

      Memories-

      A Gossamer Thread

      Cargoes

      A Lover’s Tiff

      Friendship

      Life!

      Growing Old

      The Book Club

      A Kentish Man’s Tale

      Ship Ahoy!

      Jolly Jack Tars

      Sirens And Sea-Horses

      The Almighty Sea

      Waste Not, Want Not!

      Majestic, Magnificent

      Jack Frost

      Peace/Pax

      Italy!

      Nature’s Conversation

      A croaking frog

      Leaping from lily pad

      To lily pad, forever sad,

      Said to the grumpy toad,

      "when do you pay me

      What I’m owed?"

      Said the toad,

      In confusion, annoyed at the intrusion.

      Oh, an insect or two, or three, I suspect!

      Can this be so?

      Said a firefly,

      Hovering near,

      To a peacock butterfly

      Ever so sheer,

      Warming its gossamer wings

      Against

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