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    Awakening: a Collection of Poems
    Awakening: a Collection of Poems
    Awakening: a Collection of Poems
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    Awakening: a Collection of Poems

    By Mitchell Ricks

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    From the First Collection of Poetry, Forever and a Day Awakening Gives a more Vibrant feel. Each poem gives reflection, harmony and upbeat look at the world today.
    As you read each page, put yourself in another place embrace inner strength and confidence.
    I Hope that by reading AWAKENING, it lets you escape the daily chores or reality and chaos. Putting you in a place of soothing comfort.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMay 13, 2014
    ISBN9781493194896
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      Awakening - Mitchell Ricks

      AWAKENING:

      A COLLECTION OF POEMS

      Mitchell Ricks

      Copyright © 2014 by Mitchell Ricks.

      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 is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Rev. date: 05/23/2014

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      Contents

      Tempest’s Rage

      From Death to Paradise

      Valley of Spells—Part Two

      Jazzman

      Spanish Drums, Latino Beat

      Living within the hood

      Fifth Floor Window

      Rainbow

      In My Teens

      Love

      Enchanted Queen

      Native Land, Forever Free

      When it Rains… .

      Grandmother, Grandson

      Pain, Sorrow

      My Grandmother

      Vanished…

      The Essence of a Man

      A Short Story

      Drunken Elder, Singing songs

      A friend in need

      A Twist of Fate, A Ray of Hope

      I Myself

      The Haunting Boy

      The Essence of a Woman

      Home

      Gothic, Frozen in time

      Deliver Me

      United

      I Cry, Ten Thousand Rivers

      In Loving Memory of

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