Pandoras Return: Volume Ii

By Ingram Foster

The first volume in this two-part collection was inspired by anguish and turmoil that I was surrounded with several years ago. This volume is inspired by characters who might have caused these feelings and by finding escape from the negativity that is derived from situations that are less favorable.

Over the time lapse between lyrical bursts, there have been many situations that cannot be poetized and others that may fill in the gaps between what people may see and what others may do.

I think the best way to sum up this book is as a war on the imagination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Oct 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524594138

Ingram Foster

Born in East Anglia and raised in the southwest, Foster has a passion and finds inspiration working in and out of various landscapes, fortunate to live as Agatha Christie did since the early age of adolescence. Inspiration, he finds, comes in many forms. Sea air, countryfolk, and a popular holiday resort all bring plenty of things to one’s mind with which to occupy itself. There is plenty to grasp on to and with the seasonal changes come the varying personalities that come for pantomime and an accompanying chardonnay. Volume II is inspired by Ingram Foster’s perception of people and the mysterious lifestyles beyond the map.

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Copyright © 2016 by Ingram Foster.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016914277

ISBN:      Hardcover        978-1-5245-9415-2

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Rev. date: 08/31/2016

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Contents

A Monarch’s Monarch

The Traveller

Atlantis

Evensong

High Times

Troubled Minds

As Mice Do Play

Nemesis

Twilight in Moonlight

Typically Pandora

The Prisoner

Chanteuse

A Global Portrait

Soldier

Perduto in Tempo

Perduto in Tempo

Imagination

Untitled

On the Road

Turtle

Assurance

Eternal

The Squeeze

Engines and Ovens

A Dance

Fathoms

For the Lovers

The Angler

Buddy

M’Lady

A Discipline

The Mistress

The Smuggle

Ode to Louise

In the News

The Awakening

Driver in the Storm

The Craft

Funfair Fanfare

One Day

War

Living Forever

Anna

13

One for the Pocket

Of My Elders

A Marvellous Place

She Shines

Fugitive

Sun in My Eyes

Of the Road

Re-Evolution

The Sin and the Fallen

The Hit Man

The Excuse

Mountain

Unchartered

Mystical Myths

Untitled

In Memory

Wherever There’s Smoke

You ’n’ I

Over One’s Shoulder

Identity Crisis

The Essence of Her

All in a Day’s Work

Lucky Charm

Forgiven, Strictly, Unrest

Untitled

Memoire

ABC to 123

Aftermath

Wit’s End

In the Brood

Four-Season Story

In Sacrifice

For the Lady

Along a Country Road

The Fall

Woe Betide/Stripped

Of a Meadow

All the darkness in all the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle

- Saint Francis

A MONARCH’S MONARCH

Swirling high above our grasp,

Barely noticed at a glance, the falcon scans horizon wide,

Perched in scrapes above the tide,

Swirling swooping stooping fall,

Gliding riding, thermals tall.

Over, above our canopy, the metropolis,

Commercial street.

Wild-free, envious the monarch,

Adored by all, a patron’s respect.

Drawn to see prestigious stance,

No fine-tuning, already enhanced.

Nook and cranny ’comes a home,

A hardened place that no one knows.

Streaked in dark and eyes are weeping,

Story tells of a history creeping,

Etched on the minds of all who know, the peregrine

falcon forever flow!

THE TRAVELLER

Country road winds onward downhill,

Curving toward the valley ahead,

Turning up to a hilltop crest,

Moorland view, slow down and rest.

Carved into the hillside steep bends to the left and right,

Around the farmer’s field of crops,

Bubbling below fresh water spring, castle crescent atop.

Walkers pass a layby halt, and riders trot on by,

Dog of shepherd chases grazing sheep

Startled grouse breaks out in fear,

And cars in distance hum ever closer.

The traveller in bus stop shelter sips,

Tea well brewed and earthly sigh.

Dusk encompass’, falls from above,

Hides like curtains dampens the glare.

Moving onward, leave behind, in the concrete cat’s eyes stare.

Moonlight glum casts overall.

Another day again comes night,

Moving on, winding closer – destination end of time.

ATLANTIS

Tides rolling around the globe, currents drag, undertow. Gravity of earth defy, flying high below the sky.

‘Swaying’ all along the beach, waves crash