To My Annie Book 3: 100 Poems of Passion

By Wade Powers

To My Annie Book 3 is a follow-up to the two previous works. Each is a compilation of one hundred poems written for and dedicated to Annie, the authors love and inspiration. A few of the poems are generalized, but the preponderance is composed in a romantic theme and seeks to express the wonder and astonishment that two people can hope to discover. Some of the poetry alludes to the struggles and darkness that is simply a part of human existence, but the effort of the author is to regale always on the strength and enduring power of love, devotion, and commitment. Much of the poetry refers to the Bible and spiritual strivings because by seeking to understand how God loves us, we can glimpse into the eternal through that lens of love that He created.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546257325

Wade Powers

Wade grew up in Lancaster, California with a love for the written word. What started out as simple poems and predictable short stories has evolved into novels about struggles, conquest, love and death. Wade has published two other novels, "Specter of an Accident" and "Skinware" and has completed the writer's version of the hat trick with the completion of "The Resurrection Factor." Wade has also written "The Covenant Divorce Recovery Leader's Handbook" which is a tutorial for starting divorce support groups for Christians. "The Covenant Divorce Recovery Student Workbook" was written as an aid for the members of said groups and allows a measure of accountability for the students as they follow along the fifteen week course. Wade has written two books of poetry, "To My Annie" and "To My Annie Book 2" and all of his works are available at online bookstores. His website is www.yellowriter.com and he lives in Port Angeles, Washington with his wife, Annie.

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No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 08/28/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-5734-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-5733-2 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-5732-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910211

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Contents

Passion Starts Over

Reigning and Raining

My Finest Expression

Before the Killing Frost

Just a Twinge

Shades of Shimmer

Your Deepest Music

The Yellow Rosed Day

Lived for the Ages

Surprise

Crystal Clear

Apart

Newly Noticed Rose

Along

Better Late

Over Time

Sleep

Inspired

The Ones I Missed

Ever Nearer

Sent a Message

Sans Regret

The Solace of the Quiet

Ascending

Always Early

Style

And Dreams

Many Shades

Our Love Turns the Page

A New Season

Uttered

Still There

To the Limit

Rainy Day Dreams

Your Presence

Sunlight

Clearly Seen

It doesn’t Matter

Autumn’s In

Blessings Bestowed

Ocean

Always Rising

No Shadow of Turning

Stealing

Almost Home

Gives the Chance

Into This

There’s Peace Like a River

Tides

I Say Yes

In the Stars

Thawing the Frost

Christmas Past

Hiding

Still Growing

Anywhere’s the Place

Eternity’s Pages

Very Grand

Fused

Our Rest

To Endure

Music to my Eyes

To Which I Can Dance

Fulfilled

Faultless Sincerity

Hummingbirds in Winter

Shared

I Dreamt of Your Love

Burst

Granted

Decades

Tulips in June

Home is Where you are

My Reflection

A Glance in the Autumn

Time’s Magic

Your Touch

Love’s Silver Lining

Deeper

Disappeared

Away with me Sail

The Time of Killing Frost

Undeterred

Demanded

When Two Lives Grow Together

Twenty-one Year Salute

Starting

All I Require

The sound of the Waves

Radiant Muse

Completing the Connection

Appeal

On the Shoreline of Belize

My Desired Haunting

As Long as You are There

Breeze Barely Blowing

Ignites the Poet’s Soul

New Lightning

Look up Eternal

Without Apparent Ending

This book is dedicated to my

four grandchildren - Talon, Lilah, Sophia and Ava. Through them, I have discovered an entirely different and pure manner of love.

Passion Starts Over

The limits of life – quantifying our days

Alabaster blends with black – the making of grays

Contrasting affections – ‘gainst the White Cliffs of Dover

When our love has reached new heights, the passion starts over

Combination enamored – the sin and the glory

The curves in the road tell the ultimate story

How hearts made of stone turn to green fields of clover

When our love has reached new heights, the passion starts over

Like a harvest in autumn – full of richness, abundance

Reward in the working – no risk of redundance

Storing grains of commitment among stalks of stover

When our love has reached new heights, the passion starts over

Metaphor of a garden, in perpetual warm spring

Ask yourself a question, Who could dream such a thing?

Turns into a bird, taking flight like a plover

When our love has reached new heights, the passion starts over

Enthusiasm unbounded – imagination released

Reverence is due – fear of failure - deceased

Fixed in each other, never play role of rover

When our love has reached new heights, the passion starts over

Reigning and Raining

If you had to pick a sense, to sense the fringe of fall

I’d recommend the visual, catch color’s waterfall

No moisture, only bursting fire, tree naked, as it grieves

Our love steadfast and reigning, while autumn’s raining leaves

Please do not try to sway me, to ear gate or in smells

The drama’s in the dazzling reds, the story that it tells

Harvest is upon us – ‘tis a rolling of the sheaves

Our love steadfast and reigning, while autumn’s raining leaves

Now you see things my way, sit back and watch the show

Forgetting that our golden theater will soon be full of snow

Season of kaleidoscope, to our memories, it cleaves

Our love steadfast and reigning, while autumn’s raining leaves

Enjoy the yellows and the oranges, as they travel to the earth

Parading down from treetops, showcasing all they’re worth

Pay homage to their journey – ‘tis one of my pet peeves

Our love steadfast and reigning, while autumn’s raining leaves

But our beauty and our passion go on throughout the seasons

Not beholden to cruel calendar, transcends all simple reasons

Never ending in performance, hearts no one can sever

Our reign of love, continuous, treks on into forever

My Finest Expression

The images, the words, cool kindling hot embered

Suddenly, in focus, all things are remembered

Flooding the soul, like a need for confession

Loving you, without equal, my finest expression

Inspiration of others? I care not a whit

My understanding their passion would never quite fit

With how my heart leads me, artistic impression

Loving you, without equal, my finest expression

For I have been moved by a song or a painting

Observing fair patrons on the verge of a fainting

Their overreaction points me to depression

Loving you, without equal, my finest expression

A woman? As art? My heartfelt assertion

I can tell them with confidence, there is such a person

I’ll not be persuaded by their constant aggression

Loving you, without equal, my finest expression

In the end, there’s the product – words in a poem

Warm, in its essence, like a hearth heated home

Conclusion is verified – the last of the lesson

Loving you, without equal, my finest expression

Before the Killing Frost

Youth believe the flowers of spring flourish to forever

Fragrance of new foliage, surrounding their endeavors

Relentless future schools them – they learn that all is lost

Feel fall’s facade eternal, before the killing frost

Key to understanding, for us, live life to limit

Spring gives way to summer, then autumn seeks to dim it

Light of winter, barely lit, causes souls to count the cost

Feel fall’s façade eternal, before the killing frost

Metaphor of life as seasons, may seem a tad bit grim