I’M Still Here

By Jon Turner

A mind opens in Awareness and in a moment all motion stills;
The senses seek a stimuli so persistent so real
Undermined but undaunted the fever of discipline makes him free;
Nothing would I fail to sacrifice to save those who most loved me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503534445

Jon Turner

My name is Jon Thomas Turner and I usually go by Jon or Jon Thomas. So if you meet me you’ll know! I’ve played a fair amount of roles in my life. Honors student, school paper writer/editor, writer for The Greenville News, U.S. Navy enlisted man, student at Atlanta Institute of Music, but at 21 years of age I had a terrible car accident after running off a steep curb going 90-100 mph. I hit a tree sideways and sustained a broken back /severed spinal cord at T11/T12 and a traumatic brain injury. I am paralyzed for life (unless a great medical cure comes along) and my TBI took years to fully heal. I’ve also had severe mental illness since I was 18. I’ve had more help than. You can imagine and though I’ve got d-o-w-n at times I’ve always gotten back up to show not my family, not the world, but myself that I wasn’t done and that I could still live out my dream. What dream is that? You’re looking at it. I’ve wanted to be a published author for the last ten years and now I am fortunate enough to have written “I’m Still Here”, my debut, and now “Dante’s First Dream”, by far my most ambitious collection of poems to date (I have other work published online). In my mid-twenties I wrote two novel length works and many short stories but after turning to poetry at age 27 I haven’t looked back. I thank you very much for your interest in the work that is my passion and I hope you are more than satisfied with it after all is read and done. Love, Jon.

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Contents

As The Morning Tides Rise And The Night Stills

Now They Don’t Even Remember……… (Me)

Would You Believe?

The Woman With No Face

If Jeff Buckley Went To Heaven……..

Disassociation……

The Young Man’s Years

Mother Russia 1923

November Spring 1864

The Name For It I Cannot Speak At All……..

After The Goddess Takes Off Her Sandals

A Thought Written To A Friend…….

I Give You This In Time

From A Swell Of Memory This Morning

What I’m Famished For–

Is It The Devil You Know???

Unity of Pain and Loss: A Pity for American Youth

The Passage Is Here

In The Orchard In Autumn

The Prelude: All In The Ad

Bullets In My Coffee…….

Written Within The Until

2 voices 1 mind

Or So My Father Told Me–

Thoughtful Letter

Note On What Is Seeping Into My Eventual Reality…….

To Never Find Anything Better

Lying Within The Peaceful Passages

No Escape From The Ever Lasting Verity

…….is left but to follow my mistress

The Perfect Death

I Want To Feel Your Pain

The Dream Just Before Dawn

After Autumn Dusk: The Shuffling of Sorts

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As The Morning Tides