Of Fire and Ice

By Daron Kenneth

Of Fire and Ice is a book of poems and micro stories. It takes the reader on a real and sometimes surreal ride through the author’s imagination and unique outlook on life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546212188

Daron Kenneth

Daron Kenneth is a teacher, writer and poet. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He enjoys writing about everyday’s ups and downs and in-betweens and the emotions associated with them. He enjoys watching movies, listening to music and reading in his spare time. Other Books by Daron Kenneth: Journeys of the Soul Shades of Rain Mosaic Lightning in a Jar Pieces of Me Reflections Collage A Sea of Sanctuary Of Fire and Ice Chasing Rainbows Signals

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/07/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1219-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-1218-8 (e)

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Contents

A Day Without Sun

A Sea of Sanctuary

Aimee’s End

Alive

Auntie Jeanne

Black and Blue

Blue Again

Blue Today

Bucket of Frogs

Bumpy Road Ahead

Burning Bridges

Childhood Friends

Cling to Your Friends

Color My World

Day After Day

Down in a Hole

Dream Tyme

Dreams

Earthbound

Faith

For Her Sake

For Sue

Friends Till the End

From Me to You

Get Through It

Getting Help

Good Friends

Goodbye, George

Goodbye My Love

Grandma Nitz

Great Grandma Nitz #2

Hard to Tell

Here Now and Forevermore

In Need of a Friend

In the Morning Light

Just the Way You Are

Keep On Trying

Let the Pain Out

Lights Out!

Little Bird

Lost and Down

Love is Forever

Milwaukee

Miss Kaydee

Miss You Much

Mom

My Dearest Friend

My Friend Sue

My Heart and Soul

Never Let Go

Next Tyme Around

Nightmare World

NightTyme Fears

Off to Sleep

On Sunday

One Little Kiss

Our True Love

Pain

Play Tyme

Portage

Rain

Rain Storms

Rich is Always Right

Richard

Richard 2

Run to You

Rusty Cage

Sad Days and Bad Days

Sails Unfurled

Sam

Shades of Blue

Snow Forts

Snuggle Tyme

So Much to Give

Some Days

Stop It!

Stop!

Summer Tyme at Last

Summer Tyme

Swan Lake

Thank Heavens

Thankful

The Edge of Night

The Lead Touch

The Light of My Life

The New Girl in Town

The Sandbox

The Wind

Ton of Bricks

True Friendship

Tyme to Go

Until the End

Wait and See

Weeds

What a Wonderful World

With the Rising of the Sun

With You

Without a Word

Without You

You

A Day Without Sun

As I sit on the back porch, I can see

The sun isn’t going to shine today.

For today is just a lonely day in February.

The snow has gone away for at least today.

The poor trees look so bare and cold

Just standing there alone. The roads

Are all covered with salt from the bad

Weather that we’ve been getting.

Some little birds fly around just looking

For what little food they can scavenge

From the ground to feed themselves.

The lawn is all brown and the grass is all

Dead from the cold winter weather too.

The neighbor’s hedge is busy with all of

The birds trying to find a place with some

Warmth. The squirrels and rabbits are

Foraging for some food as well, as they

Know that we have a long road ahead

Until Spring will finally get here several

Months from now. The gray sky looks

Like it is just waiting for Spring to get

Here so it can help the world with some

Warm weather so it can help the plants

To bloom and flourish once again, while

I just sit here and pray for the sun and

Spring to get here sooner than later.

A Sea of Sanctuary

When I get to the point where I just can’t take

Anymore…I do as I always do and turn to my

Friend… to my sea of sanctuary. There goes

My tightness of chest and taught forehead as I

Ease back and swim in the sea, my sea of

Sanctuary. Her waves release all my stressors

And upset as she leads me on in her continuous

Motion of waves. SomeTymes at the seashore

I just stand and stare at her in all of her power

And magnificence as she goes on from shore to

Shore to shore. She moves with the power of

The moon’s gravity as she ebbs twice a day.

She effervesces as the tides come in and I

Drift along in myself wondering why everyone

Can’t share in the peace and joy of her beauty

She gives so freely of herself. Her salty breath

Floats on as she crosses over the shoreline that

Spans over three quarters of our planet Earth.

The most wondrous sound of all of her sounds

Is as she breaks upon the myriad shores of my

Mind and soul. Her gifts relax me so I can move

On and take on the world one last Tyme… if not

Now, for forever more.

Aimee’s End

Aimee had been missing since Saturday night.

I missed her snuggling with me so I looked

Through the living room to no avail. I looked

Under the couch where she likes to play…No

Aimee. I looked in the dining room but she

Wasn’t there either. I searched the bathroom,

Nope. I looked in my bedroom where she

Where she Loves to hide in a corner of my

Room under the pile of clothes. She would

Spend much of her day sleeping, but still no

Aimee. I was beginning to get worried by