Inspirations and Emotions: Seven Layers to the Truth

By Hunter Dan

My name is Daniel Hamel AKA Hunter Dan. Thank you for purchasing a copy of my book of poems. The book is titled, Inspirations and Emotions. The title suits this collection very well. They are all written because a topic or an event inspired me to write it. And the Emotions that I felt while writing virtually all of these, especially the ones written that have to do with my disease. While I was still active and after I went to rehab. There were many many tears shed with pen to the paper. These poems are all inspired by me as a person who in many ways lived a simple life with many complications along the way. So many as you will read are self inflicted. While others I had no control over. I am a man with hobbies, family and friends, and a disease that is in my blood that I let overpower my life. It cost me my second marriage to probably the best thing that ever happened to me. She is a sweetheart and we were supposed to grow old together. Even though we separated she still loved me enough to take me to rehab. We communicated through that and took life one day at a time. We were working on our marriage and were going to stay together, then I made a decision that I regret. It ended our marriage and I had to let go of my best friend. I crushed my own heart. But as The End says, I couldnt stand between her and her family. Writing that poem was like writing my own obituary. People may ask, why share so many deep dark personal imperfections with the world? My answer: Because I am human, I have made mistakes throughout my life. People do and will continue to. My poems have helped me communicate what I do and feel, and if my poems can help anyone at all with their own life experiences or they can simply relate to one, many or all that is why I chose to share them . Many are about happy times as well. I am proud of each and every poem that I wrote. I am an outdoorsman, I am a son, a brother, a friend, a compassionate citizen (Thinking Of You), an alcoholic in recovery, and a greatful man that I have that at this point in my life. The last ten poems is a chapter of poems that was done collaboratively while I was in rehab by a class I attended. We sat in a circle, each with a clipboard, pen and paper. We wrote the first line that had to be a positive about our recovery. Then passed it to the right and that person wrote a second line and so on until it came back around. Then we read it and wrote the last line. It was alot of fun. They didnt have to rhyme but could. They are creative. They dont exactly have to make sense and for the most part they dont. But it was a real fun exercise, and I made sure I got a copy of them for this book. The titles are just the originators name. It is evident we were in recovery and it was late winter and we had spring fever. I hope you enjoy my book about my crazy life and again I thank you for your purchase.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491764343

Hunter Dan

I am a poet, children's author and fictional novelist that knows emotions are best laid out on paper! I enjoy going to schools with my book and educating children on the dangers of bullying. I've shared it with kids K - through 6th grade, reading the book and answering questions about the book and about bullying. I also have a list of questions that I ask them about the book. It's inspirational how well they pay attention and enjoy the book.

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Inspirations and Emotions

Seven Layers to the Truth

Copyright © 2015 Hunter Dan.

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iUniverse rev. date: 06/05/2015

Contents

About The Author

A Hunters Prayer

I Am A Tree

Spirit Of The Woods

Speak The Language

Dog Is God Spelled Backwards

Thinking Of You

We Came Back As Cardinals

A Damn Yankee

Orphan Ann And Her Brother Dan

Happy Mothers Day

The Life And Times Of Jake Henne

Being There Was The Best

A Kick Of Hope

Jack And Robert

My Best Friend

Gin Before Jen

Her Smile

Letting Go

I Urned It

The End

Land Of The Lockst

Dan

Carlos

Brandon

Tim

Rebecca

Jeff

John

Joe

Herb

Wendy

About the Author

My name is Daniel J. Hamel. I was born June 13th 1964. My birth mothers name was Shirley Ann Fisher. My birth father, I have no information on who he was. My name at birth was Timothy John Chandler. At age 6 months I along with my year and a half old sister Gwen were taken away from our mother by the state of Vt. and put up for adoption. Our 3 year old brother Fred was allowed to stay. She was determined to be unfit to raise 3 children alone as an alcoholic.

Gwen and I were adopted separately by two different families. I was adopted by Ronald and Madelyne Hamel of Windsor Vt. I was the youngest of 5 children and graduated in 1982 from Windsor High School. I have one son named Joseph Timothy from my first marriage. He was born November 1st 1988. He has blessed me with my only grandchild Jack Joseph and very influential aspect to my sobriety.

I have battled the disease myself over the years. In the fall of 2011 I started writing poetry. Several were written before I got sober while I was married to my second wife. As that marriage was failing I continued to write. When we separated in January 2014 we still loved each other but I wasn’t the man she married. A month later on February 23rd she took me to rehab which saved my life. I continued to write in rehab and in sobriety afterward as Jennifer and I worked on our marriage. In October of 2014 I made a decision I didn’t want her son to be a part of my life. We were divorced in December.

A Hunters Prayer

By Hunter Dan

Every day is Sunday when I sit upon my perch, that’s because I believe the woods are my church. I