Tom's Nonsense

By Tommy Lee Holland

Compilation of poems made by the man of my life, my dad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514409152

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TOM’S NONSENSE

Tommy Lee Holland

Copyright © 2015 by Thomas Lee Holland.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2015915407

ISBN:       Hardcover       978-1-5144-0914-5

                 Softcover         978-1-5144-0916-9

                 eBook               978-1-5144-0915-2

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Rev. date: 12/30/2015

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CONTENTS

What It’s About

Once Cherokee

Lost And Found

Big Red Sun

Good News

Old Grumpy

The Greatest Gift

A Teensy Secret

Sex At Six

Binky The Blanket

Next?

Trapor •Trapee

God In The First Grade

Rain

Captain Smith And Pocahontas

Not My Mom And Dad

First Communion

Nicki

The Wreck Of Man

Why Not

This Tear

My Roses And You

Performance Review

Vanity

What Name

One Of Three

Hope

Twilight

Sailor’s Song

This Was Courage

On The Wind

Afterglow

The Road

Last Meal

Question

She’s Right

Beauty Defiled

Look To The Eagle’s Nest

Girl With Auburn Hair

H. W. (Mac) McCUE

Happiness And Time

Sex And Love

The Truth Is

Rebuttal-You Did It

Adler Key

As Willows Respond

The Tree And We

The Place

John

Your Choice

Ode To Terrible Tom

I Guess The Fat Lady Sang

Serena

Good News

A Do-Nut For Richard

Dick Cox

The Children

Your Role In Human Relations

Tom Holland

(Oct. 3, 1926 – Oct. 3, 1996)

Cherokee Indian, a peaceful man, a kind and generous man and most of all a man of God. Case in point at his funeral service behind us. Being the family seated in front of the Altar of our church one of the seats we’re empty. We were concerned, for his friends we’re seated behind this section. Stunned is the only word I can use to describe our emotion when the children from the St. John the Baptist Church School marched in to be seated. You see, they insisted in attending the funeral for He was a friend of theirs, and read poetry to them on many occasions, this we never heard about. Tommy Lee Holland was truly the greatest man in my life, and always will be.

Love you Dad,

See you Soon Chris.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT

To find what life is all about,

One must examine well

Things to be done by you alone

To catch its mystic spell

Search not for what you shall receive,

Or meager will be your lot;

Pour out yourself as water on sand

Then ye shall want not.

If you’ll offer to all your mind, your heart,

And face life’s joy and strife;

Then it matters not what life gives you,

What matters is what you gave to life.

Tom L. Holland

ONCE CHEROKEE

Come, my