Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii

By Edwin Rolf

Verse Voices is a second volume of verse by Edwin Rolf, the self-styled Poet Laureate of Forest Lane. Compiled over the past several years, this collection includes selections which describe his experiences with facing retirement and dealing with the physical problems of aging. His verse also describes his sense of fun and wonder about the reality of human life on earth and describes many of the ideas where he has found inspiration. Finally he offers quite a few brief observations on his total life experience to date. Taken together with his first book Vice Verses, Rolf describes for future generations much of his total life experience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 25, 2006
• ISBN: 9781462831920

Edwin Rolf

Edwin Rolf, the writer, and poet of renown, emerged o’er many decades from a tiny little town ‘midst the cornfields of Ohio where he played a mean trombone in high school and in college in bands and all alone. He became a Navy pilot and flew for five whole years, then settled in a valley with siliconic seers. He’s marketed computer stuff for years that he can’t count. He’s dabbled in the arts to seek a different mount. Then several years ago, into his addled mind, the verses started flowing of every shape and kind. He scribbles them on paper in the middle of the night; then puts them on his laptop to make them come out right. So when they did accumulate in numbers quid pro tem, Xlibris ads convinced him that he should publish them!

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Contents

ALOHA

He Moe’ Uhane (A Dream)

Lahaina Ia Lana’i

Lana’i Lament

‘Ai’e ia Ulala (Ode to Ursula)

Haleakala

The Road to Hana

Slightly Palmy

The Sound of the Surf

eTired

The Golden Rule

Management 101

The Monkey

Jangled Bells (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)

Four Letter Word

O.U.R. Lament

Forced March

DotCOMatose

Insubordination

Wienie, Weedy, Weekly

Pasture-ized

Flee, Fight, Flow

The Flier

The Editor

ReTired

Easy Come, Easy Go

Go Go Go Gone

LIFE SAVERS

Windows

A View

Forever Spring

The Forest

The Leap

The Path

The Journey

Going North

Perfection

Resentment

Give & Take

The Jewel

Hide & Seek

Buddha Lite (Siddhartha Suds)

Song & Dance

Time & Tide

POPPA’S PAGES

Cracker Jack

Geronimo Jack

Jack I

Poppa’s Day

The Merry-Go-Round

Stuff

Minimalist in Marin

Auto Allergic

Ahoy

The Warrior

Helmer’s Helmets

October

The Phantom

Skidaddle

An MMI Goodbye

Maestro Reemplazo

Subbing With Else

Special Ed

The Saga of the Sock

Who ARE They?

Da Boyz

Blitzed

Raindrops

PHYSICAL ED

The Man in the Ditch

Physical Ed

XLent

Lazy Bones

Diet Riot

Doughnuts

Pill Poppin’ Poppa

Organ Recital

Rigor & Vigor

The Bag Man

Lost & Found

The Fine Line

Mildly Manic

Mildly Manic Again

Major Bose

The Quest

THEME & VARIATIONS

VIRTUAL REALITY

Virtual Reality

Re-Engineered

Rat Man

The Hard Shelled Road Roller

Miracles & Magic

Spirits

Clouds

Cumulovisions

Contrails

The Kaleidoscope

Pictures

Photo Play

Hawking Talking

Phun With Physics

String’s The Thing

Holy Holomoves(At Home With Bohm)

Microbessence

Cosmosis

YULOGUE

Christmas Eve

Handling Handel

Red & Green

Snow Flakes

PARTING SHOTS

Amazing Grace

At Ease

Beating the Odds

Birthday

Chemistry

Clock Watch

Control

Craps

Dawn

Dodo M.O.

Easter

Episstemology

Geologic Time

God´s Playmate

Head over Heels

Hymns

Imagination

Kurz Und Lang

Life

Light

Longfellow & Me

Looney Tunes

Merry Gone Round

On The Head

One

Poppa Doodle Do

Shooting Stars

60 Something

Soap

Star

Take It Or Leave It

Tempus Fugit

The Basic Life

The Ladder

The News

The Rocket

The Trinity

The War

Time Out

Time Travel

Totally Spent

Versasillities

Wake-up Call

Dedication

To all those who have gone before;

To all those yet to come;

To my loving wife;

To the tables down at Dip Sea;

To the place where Blitzen dwells;

To the dear old queen size bed we love so well;

But most of all, to those who have purchased this book!

ALOHA

He Moe’ Uhane (A Dream)

‘O au moe i ko’u kua

(I lie on my back)

‘O au nana pono ia ke ‘opua

(I stare at the cloud banks)

A me ko’u manao ho’ohemo

(And my mind takes off)

A he ho’olahalaha koa’e

(Like a soaring tropicbird)

‘O au lana i ko’u kua

(I float on my back)

‘Ole ke moana nalu

(In the ocean surf)

A me o’au ‘ike

(And I experience)

Hemolele palekaiko

(Perfect paradise)

Ma he wai papa lane

(In a water heaven)

Hele kekahi wa

(Without any