Poetry, Poems, and Stories by Virginian

By billy goode

My book is a collection of happenings in my daily life that have made me express myself in, lets say, a poetic fashion. Being an avid reader of the poetry of Robert Browning and Dylan Thomas as they write about life, love, and death motivated me to view those three things in a more intimate approach, not to be better than those two, but to leave a legacy of how these three words have affected my view of how others should be treated by me in just the daily moving around this crust of dirt called earth.

author Billy Goode

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524587239

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Copyright © 2017 by billy goode. 758068

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5245-8722-2

   EBook      978-1-5245-8723-9

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 02/24/2017

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Table of Contents

•   A Dog

•   An Arrow

•   Anxiety

•   Apostate

•   Think Alarms

•   Anniversary

•   Awareness

•   Choices

•   Consider

•   Collisions

•   Compare

•   Cold

•   Change

•   Deep Thoughts

•   Death

•   Flight

•   Funny Books

•   Gift

•   Good and Kind

•   Humbling

•   Leaving

•   Love

•   Life

•   Messages

•   Musings

•   Old Age

•   Observation

•   Politicians

•   Puzzling

•   Perseverance

•   Reality

•   Samaritans

•   Slowdown

•   Texas Arrival

•   The Fleeting Tides of Life

•   Three F’s

•   Thoughts

•   Tired

•   The Gate

•   Trip

•   The Answer

•   Vibrations

•   Wake Up

•   Wasting Time

Opinions

•   Holy Spirit

•   Labels

A Dog

My dog sitting job is all this week, and she is on the back porch guarding the place as if it were her own. Nico is her name, and no birds or squirrels will be nearing her throne. She is on her haunches and ready to attack any small species that happen to gain her attention. She is alert, and my rope is way too short, but if this leash is unhooked, over the fence she would vault. And this happened on her last visit, which I forgot to mention. Dogs are my favorite animal to watch and love but affording the vet bills I can’t get involved. So love and affection, that’s all we can give, and she is right back at you with a tail-wagging gift.

An Arrow

Sir, I have, but two topics, yourself and me, and I am sick of both. Samuel Johnson came up with this quote.