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    Poetry in Motion
    Poetry in Motion
    Poetry in Motion
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    Poetry in Motion

    By Gary Aleks

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    Our merits that have molded to last,
    Subside in shapes with no contrast:
    Footsteps that carried our horizons
    Have faded into the brittle past.
    - excerpt from Empty Spaces
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 21, 2013
    ISBN9781493127146
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      Poetry in Motion - Gary Aleks

      Copyright © 2013 by Gary Aleks.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       pending

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4931-2713-9

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4931-2712-2

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4931-2714-6

      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.

      Rev. date: 11/09/2013

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      Contents

      Foreword

      THE RED ROOM

      Be There Might In a Hurry

      The World Is My Foe

      An Irrelevance of Time

      If I Could Belittle the Pain

      A Farewell to Fallacy

      Wishful Thinking

      AT A LOSS

      Empty Spaces

      Familiar Faces

      Livevil

      Unknown Paths

      Unnamable Obscurity

      Sustain the Silence

      TO & FROM

      An Irreplaceable Permanence

      Her Distrust Compels Distress

      Unchangeable Appreciation

      They Asked About You

      MISUNDERSTOOD

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