Chased by the Dawn: Poems by a Persistent Person

By Kenneth Kennon

Chased by the Dawn is a collection of poems spanning a lifetime of observation and experience. Humorous, touching, strident, ironic, tender, angry, insightful, encouraging, this American poet paints vivid images emerging along an eventful journey from a Missouri Ozarks boyhood to his present high desert Arizona home.
Raised in a home where both the arts and humanity were highly valued, Kenneth Kennon learned to observe life experience and relate to both people and nature from his parents rich perspective of poet and painter.
Poems in this eclectic collection explore a wide range of themes offering observations and encounters with visions of childhood, musing on growing older, life touched with discouragements and encouragements, wise lessons of nature, experiencing moments of routine, elation and grief, interactive with family and a wide community of friends and neighbors met, lost and kept, all revealing a souls search and discovery of beauty, justice, peace, and a sustaining faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 14, 2006
• ISBN: 9781462835621

Kenneth Kennon

Kenneth Kennon was born and reared in a politically conservative Missouri Ozarks family. He was a Boy Scout in his youth, a security clerk for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a young adult, and an ordained clergyman in pastoral ministry for decades before his incarceration in a federal prison for a peaceful act of conscience. Active in the protection of refugees, the Sanctuary Movement, and Pastors for Peace Caravans to Central America, he has been involved in SOA Watch efforts to close the U.S. “school of the assassins” on Fort Benning since 1992. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Copyright © 2006 by Kenneth Kennon.

Cover Art: Dawn, by Kenneth Kennon.

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Contents

Like Rain in the Desert

For Mother

Green and Growing

Isaiah 40

Resurrection

Continue to Post Poems

Raw

Upon the Air

Out of Season

Turn It Loose

Pedregosa

Communion

A Part of the Pulse

A Butterfly Released

Beyond All Fear

Angel of Mercy

The Place Once Planted

Span

Like the Wind

Hide and Seek

Resistance Force

Raymond

Dreams and Visions

Have You Noticed the Beautiful People

Catalpa Leaf

November 16, 1997

Ode to Flint

Loneliness

Random Thoughts

Apparition

Used

Lundy Canyon

Oasis

The Day Mother Died

Conception

Fledglings

Roots

Artist’s Q & A

East of Eden

Outside the Limits

Ruts and Stars

Memory’s Child

Metamorphosis

The Wildest Thing Happened

Intersection

Hypocrites

Windows

Timing

Walk Fearlessly

Aperture

Sandwiched

Retirement

Antiquing

It is Awesome

Cherished

Distance

Paperwork

Wait

Most Sacred

Winter Solstice

Missing

Mourning in the Morning

Symphony

Good Friday

First Light

Tulip Bouquet

Family Tree

Love Apple

Hope

Itch

Marathon

The Gardener

Promise Waits

Thorn Dancers

We Know

Paper Sailor

Rare

Shrub

A Prayer for Our Town

The Moment

Wise Up

Senseless

Whiff

No Sweat

Autumn Breeze

Smell of Rain

Light in Darkness

With love

to Ethelyn Peebles and Raymond Kennon

my parents and poets

Chased by the Dawn incorporates poems from Prisoner of Conscience: A Memoir. Those written while incarcerated in a U.S. federal prison camp include: East of Eden, Fledglings,Light in Darkness, Paperwork, Thorn Dancers, Timing, Used, Wise Up.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors and publishers of magazines and anthologies in which some of the poems in this collection originally appeared. These include: The Christian, A Prayer for Our Town, Have You Noticed the Beautiful People; The Disciple, For Mother; Waging Words for Peace, Niagara River Press (2004), Continue to Post Poems; Body & Soul: New Day for Christian Women 2004-05, Christian Board of Publication (2004) and DisciplesWorld, Pedregosa; Common Ground, Like Rain in the Desert; Journey Into