Synonyms on Toast: A Collection of Poems

By Deborah

This is a collection of poems representing the thoughts and dreamings of one elderly individual of our society today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532044151

Deborah

Deborah was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and has lived several places on the east coast. She earned a Masters in Learning Disabilities and Emotional Disturbances, Bachelors in English education, and minors in Linguistics, Religion and Philosophy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She stayed in Des Moines for 31+ years to teach high functioning autistic students, multi-categorical resource and English in junior high and some high school. She began writing at the age of 12. One poem in the collection, she wrote at the age of 14. She now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and continues to write.

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Copyright © 2018 Deborah.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018902369

ISBN: 978-1-5320-4414-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-4416-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-4415-1 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 11/27/2018

CONTENTS

Dedication Page

The Thorn Bush

Circles

Compass

How Pretty Fields Grow

Name It

To Believe

Soft Silent Risings

Summer Shadows

Life Song

Snow Moon

Magic Eves

Too Deep

By Design

Mother Knows Best

Khalea the Summer Time Elf

The Silver

Sycamore Shadows

Have You Seen It?

Unnoticed

I Pray

I Wish

Somber Prayers

Ancient Nights

Lessons

Real?

Vision

When We Passed

To Men

David

Peter

Dan

Three Shining Hopes

Are You Near?

The Devil Is Orange

Dear Fake Press

June 14, 1946

The Green Lady

Still There

August 2018

This World

The Barn

Untitled

Unplanned

Scream

Rest

The Word

Circles

Bowery