Twelve Plus One: A Collection of Poems

By Marleen Rita Duckhorn

In this Duckhorn's thirteenth published book of poems, she obviously shirks the number thirteen in her title, calling it Twelve plus One. No harm there. She writes her selected poems in six parts where the topics range from alien space crafts, time, heaven and ascension, and much more. Using her trademark knack for phrases in each poem, she is an ever-evolving, free-verse, modern poet. She loves people and wants to share her poems with the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796016604

Marleen Rita Duckhorn

Marleen Rita Duckhorn is sixty-seven and lives in Southern California.

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Copyright © 2019 by Marleen Rita Duckhorn.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2019901925

ISBN:              Hardcover                            978-1-7960-1662-8

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Rev. date: 02/19/2019

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OTHER WORKS PAGE

(In order written)

Red Daughters in a Foreign Spotlight

Soul Beams

Zoom Lens

Double Decked Nature

Rocks on the Road

Gravel Pit on the Moon

Poems of Gratitude

Say Yes to Time

Written Rhythms of Space Travel and Earthly Things

Flapping Soul, Words in Verse

Explorations of a Verse Master

Memorable Sayings of Poetry

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Guru Dev.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I want to thank my husband, David H. Neidner, for his love and support, Jude Cortes, Denice Turner, Russ Proctor, and Raymond F. Culley Jr. for their kind encouragement, and Bernice Walker for her outstanding technical support.

TO BE A POET

To be a poet beyond all doubt

One has to think like one

Grasping the heart of words at hand

And salvage their beat as chum.

One has to orchestrate the band

Whose notes hit high and low

To absorb into the reader’s mind

As if it were a sheet of snow.

To write on such a landscape

May not save the cause to feel

And to draw a parallel line above

Would only become a preacher’s will.

To be a poet beyond all doubt

Needs a ventured personality in tow

A ‘trained seal’ mind of existence

One of which often steals the show.

One may write as ‘hunt and peck’

Or on a cursive writing pad

When illumination calls their name

They dispense sincerely glad.

Yet a serpentine dilemma

Often besets their uncommon fetch

Of words in highest places mirrored

And one’s inclination seems to catch.

They trespass in the ozone

Like a mystic on the brink

Then pull you in with gravity

With topics common as a kitchen sink.

There really is no mystery

As one’s talking may contort

The poems get up and walk away

To look for God at last resort.

CONTENTS

Part 1 - Legacy

Do Poets Need Crowded Evidence?

Insight

A Poet’s Purpose

Old Books

A Pinch of Salt

If I Were To Be Remembered

At the Farthest Corner

A Poet’s Legacy

The Personal Tutor

Undoubtful Legacy

Buttered Bread

Climate

Why Does the Moon Shine?

Levitation

What We Know of the After Life

Fate

Merthiolate

Raids on the Alchemy Cabinet

A Skeptical Wizard

I Wouldn’t Run

The Process of Writing

As Freshness Grows

A Night of Writing

Harness - Bells

Bangor, Maine

What Being A Sidha Means To Me

The Union of All Flocks

In A Storm

Heaven Is In League With the Dew

The Purpose of Life

Back Pages of Life

Here Is A Crumb

Never Stop Learning

Awaken In Your Sleep

Answers and Questions

A Guide To Life

Did Some Race Plant Us?

Coats of Mountains

All Is Not As Weasels Think

A Bitter Involvement

I Miss You

A Tall Order

Serious Sea

Which Solvent Will Dissolve Hate?

Ageless and Kind

Altered Photograph

Each Day

The Purest Pure

Total Truth

Self Esteem

Taking Sides

Heaven Is An Overused Topic

Simply Citizenship

The Weeping Poet

Part 2 - Keys To the Saucer

Robots

Step Inside

Crates

Scavenger and Seekers

Alien War

Treacherous Paths

Several Days Later

An Incline At andromeda

Telescopic Blues

Failing To Investigate

Keys To the Saucer

Spacecraft Approaching

The Underside of Essence

Sob Story At the End

Distance To the Stars

Night Light

The Transport of Being

When A Star Talks

When Totality Speaks

Poetry Is Like Physics

A Rocket To the Moon

Opinions Live

To All the People

Are Ufo’s Real?

Criteria of Panic

Part 3 - Inner Time

Time Gives Purpose

Jinxed By Time

Present and Ancient Times

Is Time Ever Sorry?

Ages Before Time

Time Is A Banshee

Noticeable Time

Sinner Time

Time Is Held

Revelational Time

Timely Outfit

Plateau of Poetry

Guardian Time

Time Is A Portal

Eager For Time

Time’s Rermittance

Shielding Time

Color of Time

Time Is Alive

Garden of Time

Time’s Seasons

Surrogate Time

Time’s Gap Between Thoughts

Time Confuses Us

Wandering Time

Band Aid Time

Possessing Time

Can You Grow Time?

Does Time Need A Watch?

The Beginning of Time

Total Prosperity

Time Is A Texture

Seven Entitled Days

Beck and Call Time

Inspired By Time

Fighting Time

Time Is Like Mercury

Time Is Supreme

Time Obliterates

The Tip Top of Time

Part 4 - Adding on To Heaven

Adding on To Heaven

Compare and Contrast

If Heaven Is A Residence

What Do We Seek In Heaven?

Facts of Matter

Keep Searching

Observations of A Versemaster

Prayers

Lake of Death

Judgment Daze

Until Judgment Falls Upon the Body

Back To the Sanity of Writing

Stubborn Identity

Savior

Who Can Con Knowledge?

Poetry Is A Harbored Message

A Poet’s Fishing Net

Making A Mockery of Ourselves

A Cold Generation

Fake Moon

Spices and Riches

Reality

No Death

Yard Bard

Ode To Travelers

A Lesson

Wasps Nest Haven

Far Out World of Why

Levels of Sky

Prophets

Human Worth on Earth

Part 5 - Esoteric Ascensions

A Signal of Ascension

You Cannot Forget A Soul

Who Can See Forever

What Praise Is

Maybe the Moon Reacted

The Akashic Record

Poets and Nature

God Will Take You

The Lighter Side

Studying the Page of Silence

Heavenly Zeal

When All Seems Unfavorable

Become A Vacuum For the Stars

Make of This As You Wish

The Genesis Requirement

Snippets From the Unbounded

When I Hear the Word Saved

What Is there?

What Conceals the