Insight

By Don Havis

This book is a collection of my poems published in my first book entitled "Not Resigned" with the addition of a number of poems I have written since. The poems are divided into four sections namely: Poems on the lighter Side, Odds And Ends, Alphabet Poems And Haikus, and Villanels.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483626246

Don Havis

Donald S. Havis (Don) was born on April 26, 1934 in Atlanta, GA. Moved to California in 1946. Berkeley High School – class of 1952. Graduated from San Francisco State University BA in 1957, MA in 1961. Was a teacher of English and Special Ed. and administrator in San Jose Unified School District and San Mateo County Office of Education. Retired – June 1990. Worked as a private tutor in San Mateo County, CA until October, 2004. Have two wonderful children (no longer children), and the world’s greatest grandson. Don Havis has been a life-long political activist working on various civil and human rights issues, with a special emphasis on separation of Church and State. Major life goals are to make the world a place of (1) Peace and Justice, and (2) sanity/rationality. I’m not doing at all well on either of these goals and could use a lot more help!

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Copyright © 2013 by Don Havis.

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Rev. date: 04/19/2013

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Contents

Insight

Early Spring

The Flood

The Factory

For The Truth Shall… .

Project

Just As

The Game

On the Nature of Light

Sound and Fury

Gone Up In Smoke

Beach Thoughts

The Anonymous Anemone

Sonnet on Faith

Sonnet on Reason

Who Me?

Free Form for a Bird Friend

Summer’s Rain

Sometimes At Night

Better

Images from a Tone Poem by Villa Lobos

Warning

The Master Come

Content and Context

Please Explain

Deep

While I’m Here

You Never Stop Thinking

Saving Things

The Moment of Death

Then And Now

Incomprehensible

The Black Hole

Kathy’s Song

My True Loves

Luddites Lament

Our Job

Staggered

The Healing

Two Tersest and a Couplet

We Had It All

VILLANELLS

The Way Things Were

Atheism

Death Not Resisted

POEMS ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

On More Worry

The Boy Scout

There’s Trouble In Uzbekistan

Was Humpty Dumped?

Bored?

I’m as happy as a fresh kissed toad

In Memory of Julian S. Steve Havis

ODDS AND ENDS: ALPHABET POEMS AND HAIKUS

A Child’s Destiny

A Baby Came

Alphabetical Outcry

Alphabetical Summary of Recent Events

Haiku for Four Seasons

Activism Bestirs Dedication

Directing Energies

Atheist’s Dilemma

The Beast

How Joy Grows

Heartbeat

Crisp and Quick

Insight

At times I turn a Cycloptic eye in upon myself

And with its maze of lenses I observe

The darker places of my skull.

And what do I