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    Poems from My Heart
    Poems from My Heart
    Poems from My Heart
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    Poems from My Heart

    By Patricia Smith

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    A collection of personal poems about the authors children, grandchildren, family, friends, inspirations of nature and her feelings of love and melancholy.She has been writing down poems when inspired throughout different phases of her life. They are poems written from her heart and soul.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 21, 2013
    ISBN9781483609317
    Poems from My Heart
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    Patricia Smith

    Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art;Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go, Gotta Flow, a collaboration ion with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Smith is the winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor for Cave Canem, the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Writing Program.

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      Poems from My Heart - Patricia Smith

      Copyright © 2013 by Patricia Smith.

      ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4836-0930-0

      Ebook 978-1-4836-0931-7

      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: 03/19/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Nature

      The Search

      The River Flows Along

      Childhood Memories

      Friends Forever (Nina)

      The Neighborhood Gang

      Love

      First Love

      To Someone Special

      Melancholy

      Can’t Forget You

      My Love is Hurting You

      If You Wanted Me

      So Many Years

      My Life

      Family

      Darrel Rodger

      Michael Kevin

      Christopher Patrick

      How To Recognize Your Basic Westside Wrestling Club Parent

      (Inspired by Darrel Rodger)

      A Child (Inspired by Mike)

      Today (Inspired by Chris)

      Cousin Memories

      Sister (Merry Ann)

      Grandchildren

      Taylor

      Darrel III and Makenzie

      Angela

      Harrison

      In Loving Memory

      To My Dad

      To My Mom

      Big Sister (Jackie)

      Christmas Memories

      Christmas Memories 2011

      Christmas 2012

      Pet Love

      Thelma Louise

      Friends

      To a Special Friend (Inspired by Nina)

      Nina and

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