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    The Dawning: A Book of Verse
    The Dawning: A Book of Verse
    The Dawning: A Book of Verse
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    The Dawning: A Book of Verse

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    A vintage book of poetry
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 8, 2014
    ISBN9781499037517
    The Dawning: A Book of Verse

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      Book preview

      The Dawning - Xlibris US

      Copyright © 2014 by Pamela Towler Papakostas.

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4990-3752-4

                      eBook            978-1-4990-3751-7

      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.

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

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 08/07/2014

      Xlibris LLC

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      620107

      Contents

      Preface

      Pot Belly Stove

      Summer of the Tall Grass

      Cry Country Girl Cry

      Romance

      Tobacco Women

      De Ja Vous

      Sunset

      Whose House Is This

      Country Girl

      The Dying Of The Sun

      Lost Love

      The Forest

      African Bride

      Sympathetic Sorrow

      Nature’s Bounty

      Where The Dew Drops Live

      If I Were A Bird

      Barren Ground

      View From My Window

      The Visit

      Illusion

      Shadows

      Nocturnes

      The Dutchman of France

      Before I Sleep

      Homeless

      Redemption

      Freedom Song

      The Guy With The Tattoo On His Head

      Free Spirit

      No More Smiles

      Out House

      Ashmore

      Thorn bird

      Rain

      A Prayer

      Pamela Bullock-Papakostas

      Preface

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