Passages Ii: the Road to Melancholia: A Collection of Poetry

By Jeanne-Marie Yess Tran

Passages II: On the Road to Melancholia, is the second sequel to Passages Trilogy.

It is a volume of poetry that depicts life over decades, with mutual experiences in details that recall distinct memories faded over time. Whether you are from the North or the South, you will enjoy the verses in "Passages:On the Road to Melancholia".

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781491784259

Jeanne-Marie Yess Tran

Jeanne-marie Yess Tran, lived in Boston for 12 years, immersed in the history and culture before moving to Florida where she pursued a BA in English at the University of Central Florida, and the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, for an MA in Special Education and devoted herself to a Kindergarten-3rd Grade Severely Emotionally Disturbed/Mentally Ill population, a job to love. She has been writing since she was in Elementary school.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-8426-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-8425-9 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 12/21/2016

Contents

In Memoriam

Introduction

Acknowledgement

Foreword

I Enter The Darkness

September 1⁴th

Cynthia’s Gift

September 1⁰th

A Florida Winter II

From the Earth to the Moon

II The Road to Melancholia

Pariah

My Father

Graduate School:Passages to Melancholia

Unstoppable

Changes

And The Lack Of Change

ENS

The Charm Bracelet

III Found Poems

Misery Obscured

Poverty v. Cannibalism

The Psychosis Of The Solitary Life

IV The Heroic Form

An ElegyTo The Memory Of Cytherea

Pierre, The Scholarly Cat: Searches For The New Tea Party

Notes

In Memoriam

This book is dedicated to a most special friend who I met and discovered in my first year of Junior High while skating on the lake which our waterfront hand built home property aligned. We kids on the old dirt road, but mostly in my family, shoveled the ice and took careful measure of the depth of the ice and did not shovel out the spaces where the ice reflected shallow. Some neighborhood kids shoveled out the snow on the ice between their outdoors rink and our huge outdoors rink. My Mum was a true hostess, cooking up hot dogs and warm buns, making traditional cocoa, and baking cookies for our visitors. It was delightful because had they come to the front of our house, they may not have felt that interest in knowing us more.

So one day Jane skated over to me, and introduced herself to me as her brother’s sister, and we became friends, long term, in fact, lifetime dear friends. She was shorter than me by about 5 inches, but she was a far better skater than I was. I was trying to learn how to skate backwards, and apparently she saw me struggling and falling a lot, so she came over to show