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    Pineapple Upside Down
    Pineapple Upside Down
    Pineapple Upside Down
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    Pineapple Upside Down

    By Grace Craven Joyner

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    Inside the book are poems for young, old and in-between.
    Some light poems, some heavier in thought. Hope you
    take delight in this poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 21, 2011
    ISBN9781456872540
    Pineapple Upside Down
    Author

    Grace Craven Joyner

    Grace Craven Joyner resides in Pennsylvania. She received a B.S. Degree in 1978 from Cheyney University and an M.A. Degree in 2008 from the Master’s International School of Divinity. Grace’s work has appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Taj Mahal Review, raggededgepublishing.com and short-story.net. She has also been published in Dawn Magazine, The Germantown Courier, Manna Magazine and has poetry featured in animation on a VoicesNet website. She has won two awards from The Philadelphia Daily News, and awards from The Chistell Contest and timbooktu.com. Was awarded Poetof- the-Month by The Philadelphia Tribune. Besides Pineapple Upside Down, she has written the books: Bible Notes from Grace; Cold Pancake; Frustrated Women; Expressing It; By Chance, You Suppose; and Whimsical, Wry and Prayerful Grace. She works part time as Editor of a publication.

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      Pineapple Upside Down - Grace Craven Joyner

      Pineapple

      Upside

      Down

      By Grace Craven Joyner

      Dedicated to: Sam, Bill, Carl

      Copyright © 2011 by Grace Craven Joyner.

      ISBN:          Ebook        978-1-4568-7254-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was created in the United States of America.

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      Contents

      Pineapple Upside Down

      Cold Pancake

      I’ve Written About Grass Before

      Stars and the Moon

      I Fight

      What Is It

      Mansions

      I Dream

      Palette of Blues

      Purple Dust

      Seems the River

      It Is Well

      Headache

      Flamboyant

      Rainbow

      With the Angels

      Renting The Earth From God

      In Your Sleep

      Freedom

      Fish

      Gossip

      A Book

      What To Do

      Come From

      Bottle It

      Two Plus Two

      Butterfly

      If It Were

      It Drops

      Holiday Cards

      Bag Lady Christmas

      Truly Gold

      The Painter

      You Sit

      Ceramic Bowl

      Bitter

      The Ball

      Moods

      Before

      A Green leaf

      Lost Hunter

      Ant

      Where Do You Hide

      Graven Boots

      Carry Me Off

      Psychiatrist

      When I Was Depressed

      Crisp leaf

      Crazy

      Soothsayer

      Is Mine

      Wing Span

      Fan

      Wood

      A Brush

      The Thing That Crept

      Snows in April

      A Rag

      Piano

      Sunset

      Not Feeling Well

      Small Opportunities

      Cheap Watch

      Headaches That We Get

      Are You Back

      Say

      Tree

      When A Poet Is Cold

      When A Poet Is Cold

      Cosmos

      Rivers

      Ghost Stories

      Graduate

      My Winter is Colder

      River

      Desert Bloom

      No Hand

      Black Teacher

      Made From Dust

      Bible Blacks

      Pulse

      Pineapple Upside Down

      if a pineapple

      is upside down.

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