Pebbles at the Beach: A Poetry Collection

By Steven Thomas Dykes

Raised in Kansas, Pebbles at the Beach is a collection of sixty-five poems by the author Steven Thomas Dykes.

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most (Congreve).

This was my introduction into becoming an artistmy first love. This novel dates back over a decade to when I was in my infancy of writing, and it followed me on a search for meaning and purpose through my travels across the great highways of the United States of America to even crossing the pond to sit in the Pere La-Chaisse cemetery in Paris, France, next to Oscar Wildes gravesite.

These one hundred four poems aim to express the life I lived from the age of eighteen to the age of twenty-eight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984550200

Steven Thomas Dykes

Steven Thomas Dykes was born in 1982 to Larry and Dinah Dykes, in the city of Topeka, Kansas. At the tender age of 18, he self-published his first novel, "In The Town of Comfortability." In the past decade since he has been focusing on writing poetry for submission to publishers, for which he has received recognition from several companies, with awards, publisher's choices, and inductions into poetry societies. He has also been seeking self-education, for which his studies include history, psychology, philosophy, current events, poetry and classical tales of literature. Symbolism has been a mainstay in all of his writings. This is his third publication.

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Pebbles at the Beach

A Poetry Collection

Steven Thomas Dykes

Copyright © 2018 by Steven Thomas Dykes.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2018910249

ISBN:                  Softcover                        978-1-9845-5021-7

                            eBook                             978-1-9845-5020-0

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Rev. date: 08/30/2018

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Prelude

1. The Birth of Fire

2. An Island of Luminous Bliss

3. Winds of Destiny

4. Heroes

5. Blind Man Davis

6. Champaign in the Morning

7. The Tree

8. Seed of Mother Nature

9. Falling on Deaf Ears

10. Temptress Dressed as an Angel

11. Addicted/Momma Help

12. To My Best Friend

13. Empty House

14. Last Sunrise

15. The Soul of Capitalism

16. The Truth of Mankind

17. The Sunday of April

18. The Heart of Evil Men

19. Cherish Natural Age

20. Money/The Tale of Faust

21. Run Away Little Boy

22. A Flower at Sea

23. Rocking Chair/Time

24. We’ll Meet Again

25. In the End

26. Tequila God

27. Love of my Life

28. Color of Sadness

29. Theater near You

30. The Sorrow of June

31. The Death of a Wiseman

32. Burning the Past

33. My Angel of Love

34. From Kansas

35. Quandary of Love

36. The Wind

37. Duality

38. Whispers of the Sea

39. Tired of the Streetlight

40. The Great American Love Song

41. The Manifestation of Time and Love

42. Direction is born

43. The Storyteller

44. Pick up the Phone

45. Flight around the Sun

46. A Vacation of Wine

47. Winter Song

48. Treasure Chest

49. Survive

50. Memory of her Scent

51. The First Snow

52. On the Farm

53. Café’ Stevens

54. Gray Sky Turned Blue

55. City of Red

56. My November Rain

57. 29 Years, 29 Ways

58. Real or Fake

59. No Country

60. Penny in the Well

61. The Frost

62. And Tonight’s Special is…

63. She Loves Me

64. Onto a New

65. Waiting for the Tide

66: The Immigrant

67: Only the Thief

68: To Hear Her Footsteps

69: Find Comfort

70: Mysterious Nights

71: Shooting Star

72 Winter Wind

73: Create the Day

74: Boy from Kansas

75: You

76: Chasing a Shadow

77: Dawn

78: The Scent that Lingers

79: Recipe for Love

80: Knowing Where to End

81: Everything

82: I Live in Casablanca

83: If I could Have You

84: My First Line to You

85: The Morning Fire

86: Will and Self

87: Dressed in Mud

88: A Red Heaven

89: Sea of Blue

90: At Night

91: November Rain

92: Vernal Equinox

93: The End is Close

94: Consideration

95: The Four Women

96: Season of Fall

97: The Circle of Life

98: Temptation

99: Feathers

100: Blue Eyes

101: Beyond Time

102: Timeless Age

103: Often a Dream

104: Conclusion

Epilogue

Dedication

I wish to dedicate this novel to the two sweetest flowers of my life: Betty Jean and Dinah Ann. There’s no way I can pay you back, but my plan is to understand… you are appreciated, – Tupac Shakur