In Season's Dream

By R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

This book is broken up into seasons. The imagery and content of the poems in the season reflect elements of the season. The best of which are In Quiet Moments, Hurricane Sandy, Endurance, Oblivion, and Fragment. Most of the poetry of this collection reflects the woodlands and coasts of Massachusetts, with a few set in Salem. Some of the poetry as well will involve the elements of fantasy, which may appeal to younger audiences. As with my last collection, there are snippets of reality and everyday life, which will appeal to young and old alike.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503551114

R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

R. Tirrell Leonard Jr. is a creative writing student at Southern New Hampshire University and a banquet server for the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts. Leonard’s first collection of poetry is titled, In the Murmuring Trees. He lives in the Wood’s Hill section of Woburn, Massachusetts.

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In Season’s Dream

R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

Edited by Tanya Gold

Copyright © 2015 by R. Tirrell Leonard Jr.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5035-5110-7

                eBook           978-1-5035-5111-4

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Rev. date: 03/11/2015

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Spring

On a Misty Spring Morn

I Hear Spring Coming

Songs of the Spirit

Tides

Nothing

Aloof, at Night

Thorns

Nature’s Nymph

Chestnut Street

Summer

Refreshment on a Hot Day

Sun Shower

In a Suburban

Meadow

Fireflies in a Jar

The Common in Summer

Jetty’s Edge

Windjammer

Willow Moth

Another Bright Idea

Solitude

Willow Breeze

Oblivion

Autumn

In Whispers

In Quiet Moments

Beneath the Maple

Hurricane Sandy

Vapors

In Falling Leaves

The Locomotive God

At Storm’s End

Fate

The Stations

Numbered Are the Hours

Winter

Endurance

Once Past

In Natural Beauty

A Christmas Wreath

Ison

Trapped In Fields of Ice

In His Cups

In the Veil

Of Moonlit Dreams

Sketch In Blank Verse

Thoughts in Curls of Snow

In Thin Steam

A Wish Out On the Stars

The Snow Queen

The Elemental

Fragment

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank my wife Nancy. Thanks to Tanya Gold for her

Expertise in helping me shape this collection of poetry,

And all of my friends for countless stories and inspiration.

In July My friend Lee Richard White passed suddenly

I want to dedicate this volume to his memory.

I knew Lee only eight years, and since the first moment

He had referred to me