Second Thoughts with Songs on the Wind

By F.M. Bonevento

There are reflections on life; then, there are truer reflections. It took a six-year hiatus for poet F.M. Bonevento to return to the written word, but he does so now with passion, wit, and a better understanding of things he thought he once knew. He now knows with certainty that time passes, and, as it does, we change and gain deeper understandings.

The Ashen Song reflects Boneventos increasing concerned for the future of humanity and our uncertain fate. The Moons Song recalls an evening spent studying the autumn moon in a shimmering Texas sky. His work goes beyond observation and into the realm of science, as well, due to the authors lasting fascination with the relationship between the power of human thought and the infinite depth of the universe around us.

Boneventos first two collections prepared him for this, his third and most powerful volume yet. His words bring resolution to the flights of heart and mind that visit our days here on Earth. The winds of time blow us back and forth; emotional winds shape us into who we are and who we will become. Take another, closer look at your life and hear the words on the winds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jun 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781480818200

F.M. Bonevento

F.M. Bonevento is a former senior software engineer and functional manager. He is the co-inventor of five computer hardware patents and is an expert in software engineering and project management. He is the author of Signs and Seasons of Love and Musings. He and his wife, Mary Ann, reside in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Contents

Second Thoughts

The Last Poet

The Ashen Song

Emissions

Lines

Who Am I?

Time

Not Forgotten

Introspection

Tears

Meaning

The Summer’s Song

Silence

Penned Before

Prayers

Saints

History

Golden Moments

Songs from the Heart

The Joy of Her

The Best of Moments

Les Preludes

Humanity

The Poet

Mortality

Family

Sweet Recall

Life

The Angel’s Song

The Sea of Stars

For Pride of Them

Miranda

Wandering in Thought

On Giving Thanks for Mary Ann

The GIs

Prayer Cards

Goodbye

My Winter View

My Lovely Mary Ann

Arrogance

Mortals

The Lama

Life

The Kiss

Sky and Weather

Vows

Voices in the Silence

The Greatest Gift

Time is Precious

The Journey Inward

What is Life’s Truest Worth

Water and Wine

Mediocre Man

Haze

The Tyranny of Things

Advocacy

Vanity

Yesteryear

Dreams

Idols

The Time Traveler

Dust Motes

Creeping Shadows

Tresses

Strings

A Sonnet

Poems of Mine

Striving

Too Swift

Reflections

My Shadow

Photos

When I’ve Passed Away

To Mary Ann

Too Far

Tomorrow

The Mercurial Man

Complexity

In Search of Sleep

Alone

Words

The Hurrying Sky

A Hollow Man

Dragging Hours

The Web of Memory

Dreams

The Moon’s Song

Mary Ann’s Mythical Hat

The Blazing Oak

A Star Filled Sky

Your Hand to Hold

Grandma’s House

Poems

Infinities

Prayers

Words

Brooklyn Days

Katie and Joe

The Mystical

Mathematics

Speculation Dreams and Visions

Things that we Share

What Shall I Be?

Life

Flux

Time and Space

Some Memories

The Wave Rider

Contrasts

The Voices of Men

The Songs of the Seasons

Her Smile

Gray Skies

The Gift of Love

Sleep

It’s Just Dust

A Kindred Spirit

Are you a Poet?

Memories

Reflections

Songs on the Wind

Songs on the Winds

The Songs of My Years

Whispers

The Voice I Hear

Winter’s Song

The Winds of Change

A Touch of Spring

Sheets of Rain

Rainy Days

What Have You Heard

Her Voice

The Wind’s Voice

The Storm’s Voice

Metaphors

The Wind and the Waves

March Winds

The Winds in the Willows

The Wind Among The Trees

Epilog

Dedications:

For My Mary Ann, who always is my inspiration.

More verses to please her mind and touch her heart.

For Mike and Jeff, some words of encouragement and reflection.

For Kate and Joe, thoughts to encourage you to find your own voice.

Recalling English Professor Doctor Roderick Marshall of Brooklyn College, who believed in my writing long ago.

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Preface

"After the easy cascade of novel subjects, comes the calm of reflection, where ideas and words seem somehow distant, and vague. Thoughts, striving to become sharper. Second thoughts arising.

Delayed notions, perhaps, deeper reflections, than what proceeded, in bursts of unconsidered stanzas. Perhaps, such reflections reveal sharper images than their antecedents.

Such is the nature of mind, the maker of all verse and prose.

Mind, seeking to amplify, and illuminate what seems left unsaid.

Second thoughts, striving for truer reflections."

These were my thoughts, as I started writing verse again, after a pause of six years. Writing again in hopes of finding deeper insights, hence, the title, Second Thoughts.

Second Thoughts is my third published collection of poems. Unlike my other books, many poems are presented as ideas and thoughts arrived over the course of time. In this sense, the presentation is hopefully more spontaneous and organic in structure.

The second section Songs on the Winds is more topical reflecting my encounters with the winds that seemed to shape my life.

I invite the reader to sample the poems using the table of contents as a guide seeking what may appeal to them, rather than a sequential reading.

As in my other books of verse, I hope some enjoyment and insight comes to those who scan these pages.

F.M.B 2015

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Second Thoughts

The Last Poet

Who are you the masses say?

Phrased allusions are so passé

Tell us quickly, what you may

No time have we for verbal play.

Still he writes though none may read

For he must strive to fill his need.

A poet writes a dying breed.

He seeks to paint what moves his soul

To grace with art, the world he knows.

Alas, no need for this his art, for crowds speak plain, and rush about

He sits alone, to weave his words

Writ in silence, and never heard.

The Ashen Song

How does it sound?

Not with notes, rather with the rustling hum of dusty silence.

A stream of flowing memories, ebbing away, drifting off onto the winds of hazy forgetfulness never revisited again

Aging newsprint, yellowed and blackened, falling into formless flecks of unreadable words

Words, becoming nothing more than meaningless glyphs.

Sounds that will never pass lips, nor gladden the