Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses
    A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses
    A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses
    Ebook166 pages1 hour

    A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses

    By Karo

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    “HOW DID THIS GET HERE?” This fashionable question made famous in the late eighties was the sole reins for me to start the compilation of poems in this book. I have no idea ‘HOW’ this got here … but once it was ‘HERE’ … I was determined to make it … at least … memorable.

    There’s a little back story to this compendium or my involvement in poetry. Frankly, I’m not truly a fan.

    Until very recently these flypaper words were just doodles and scribbles on torn paper and tatted notebooks, until a friend read one or two and remarked rather innocuously, if I had any others and wouldn’t it be nice if there was a collection of them in one place.

    Well I have taken her advice and made sort of an anthology of them. They are from different periods of my life, so I hope you will please bear with me. What I knew as a young man, like most things I didn’t understand until I was well into my forties.

    What are the odds of actually writing scribbles and then be fortunate to compile them and have them published?

    Well this is a chance for my words to have a mouthpiece. Meaning one of you out there. There’s nothing better than being part of the echo of that nameless but great representative.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateAug 5, 2019
    ISBN9781984590985
    A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses

    Related to A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      In class, I stared because of the blood going blue.The chalk that coated our fingerly teeth.The way we lapped each other (on the shorewhere the flowering). I gave away our location. Smacked my lips in the coat closet.Sucked at her teeth. We, on all e

      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems by Rohan Chhetri

      Sep 8, 2020

      All summer the half voice lurked behind me & I played deaf for days for to live To not write about it to use my body Part the river’s flesh to operate Machinery is human too to love & for once stay awake through it all. Now it comes like the deer sle

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo

      2 min read

    • Article

      As the World Collapses

      Jul 27, 2017

      As the World Collapses
      7 min read

    • Article

      Character Portrait

      May 4, 2023

      Character Portrait
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Home Stretch

      Sep 24, 2021

      The Home Stretch
      6 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Sep 23, 2022

      I was having brunch recently with a friend. She was observing a young, in-love couple behind me. She commented that he was rubbing her back and showing such tender affection. As they left and walked past her, she said to them, “What an amazing couple

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2019

      for Rouge they do not knowthe joy they walk with their footprints a lessonof faith O faithful companion of lonelinessthe name we gave you was not a name but a cryand you stayedand now they come to hunt in the wildnot for meat not with the ritual for

      4 min read

    • Article

      Until The Sea Closed Over Us And The Light Was Gone

      Jul 1, 2020

      —Dante, Canto XXVI But if the truth is dreamed of toward the morning—El Paso Although it was really last summer’s song,all this summer Despacito played on as slower then I turned myself to gazeupon Juarez. The summer everything hurts my eyes, a dozen

      6 min read

    • Article

      Orange You Glad

      Jun 1, 2021

      Orange You Glad
      13 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      Jun 25, 2021

      The music labeled from A to ZI can’t get those sounds out of my headThose 45s are from our lifeSometimes the memories cut like a knife Jukebox Nights have been the bestAll my problems to get off my chestSpent with people I love and have sharedA good

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Symposium on Loss

      Mar 1, 2023

      A Symposium on Loss
      30 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

      6 min read

    • Article

      Saying Goodbye to Sara

      Nov 10, 2021

      — We never really know when it will be the last time we talk to someone, the last time we see them, the last hug. The time was 2:23pm. Or there about. It’s hard to pinpoint the precise time when you’re in that deep sleep state where time seems not to

      6 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2018

      At twenty past the hour,there is a scent of bacon and wind.Drying flowers on the cigarette machinecrackle in unseen flames. The spirit steps out of the quietfor air and returns to the waterfallof silverware and cups and talk.We don’t have honey wheat

      1 min read

    • Article

      Love Is All Around

      Jan 16, 2020

      IT’S a leap year, gulp. As if the Valentine’s gush isn’t enough, now the girlfriends and single ladies among us must publicly announce our undying love by proposal. I’ve spent at least two leap years and nearly a decade of Valentine’s Days concentrat

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Five Poems
      3 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      Apr 30, 2021

      I once was a chestnut, I hung from a tree,Like all of the young, I longed to be free.One day I landed, it felt like a mile.I need not have worried, I was in Hutton soil.My work had just started, ‘twas about 1803.That’s when I knew, I’d become a tree.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Your Love Will NEVER FADE AWAY

      Dec 11, 2020

      Your Love Will NEVER FADE AWAY
      2 min read

    • Article

      DEFINING Memories

      Aug 5, 2021

      DEFINING Memories
      7 min read

    • Article

      In The Spotlight:your Writing Dark Side

      Dec 7, 2023

      Spooky season evidently offered creative inspiration aplenty for the WM writers, who responded to the call for writing in November’s crime-themed issue on the theme of ‘Dark Side’ with our fullest mailbox yet. The poetry and prose sent in demonstrate

      4 min read

    • Article

      In The Spotlight: Your Writing Genre - Busting

      Apr 4, 2024

      What an inventive lot the WM writers proved themselves to be with the ‘Genre-busting' submission call! The response was terrific, with a postbag full of playful, off-the wall writing that read as if its creators had a gonzo riot mashing up elements f

      5 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Sep 1, 2020

      Five Poems
      4 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2023

      Unlike the churning shit-show-roar of whateverthat was we just left behind, this year, onlinechatter tells me, will be one of contemplationand hope. Maybe. Right now, I’m holding stillthe best I can, having followed once again thissame path to this s

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2020

      The American linden sways nonplussed by the storm,a bounce here, a shimmy there, just shaking like musicleft over from the night’s end wafting into the avenues before sleep.I remember once walking down Clinton Street, and singingthat line returning,

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Collection Of… a Menu of Verses - Karo

      gQabook_preview_excerpt.htmlY]r7J>lQlk)KhH<3 !Sت%'ٯ{Hag!9hyuqˋ>]zkuw4˿Fd]ECԱ#?}*y?W'/h*cZKMot菉?G/Nystvrvvjs|z7kqzfEZ#D :cR!Q*L)Rh!UיJAX8RnE3J^1g!# ޙJ WmsT> ^.|ϧ+AL>),ULҤ׉*J#o`_5 4e[a>.\W&[?wf 2% XvtJ+H*h*}-^:+]TuVu)yTա `jϥIupwJ1*oɫ?7?OONN-6ϧx-YSkb3\/ 5۷/_~+^]Gv\һ]FfJ@氽2l&w.بRD}xcK j{tc<V2C@*G =:k羣$Usr%4QOuc?鶖?q=\I*㉆*X;ʵٿC. LHEp_0&[G^-WZǵjc_gwPxv%imivhoD\G84w/5ԣOոe7~ jqPu4Amaf۶h<`}Fp)Hxϥ/+gNT&ыS_YB,z|;,9m_R~݌F8F1[0Vۺ_v}17Y0 QF!"0Q49(<}hauDUx9H<;;;K}# _"lZg(BVf޻NZ?<&R1}%܈R裇X;73Np₺I4-93",oC#Z*  :aO hX nRml+q1|㤖8 5# $x b@͡`|/y y`íx JAD'P{%r6(J۪0m}@m>zuֶ(DFqD@uWbht$tE!#xe$ky3Hj]LwqkU[ 6M!ڽ͚n%F D8AV!!54t*C0]F„LrRPN>DNu|$w6ߣFU34]lʃG3;H6>% h (t3}(cꓰ'}&Lfvh:vٵ_T&+`?ǵSˎ 0P+%$]m",Dב6,9T (ءQUfQhm:reFtT,tQԮlL쯫RM@]p%U:i.53 m>3 {}%Z>sX7PGh>ɢKC遬v_g-hkQW읆/[|je܈[hn׃ ?M|?o?1\ɇ/͆mOt|\q?(-ThtN]NX}nF맷'=axsrrrs,oś$;Jr>Q,gO5۶C_bzQfpeS-AK<%Hd*{XB㕊O+p'lD0_ܣ\D.ȩuJ.k'; lw)Fe kEQa7 5OlܮAuOλ|;t⧋c|Q( &gV<#QF=\0 йbjMZ8 i j-:.Z*厙 ó`Jn,?h Vf{!Px\` SiQ,6{>< /X/eK4Վq <=ferHS=),^XOd2(䶂;cm} J,k/:˦g(&e4cۍ_ۉt 1yK:{f?J1[SʯʹʜC'9R뭅ȿ`>e$Ld5ge $dvooh48oQ]D_eL/e-|Z493IHglD-d)E_X}xHxm̲/Kp?:磬،r|ڸ*KC&JJ=Wq 8hS ؘGVZɊZY|XCDM5{Fya _{2)I;ّɖ gHf.r!+3M2 rK-%  xqO3jjbAд:r˅!S5é^~MlNh
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1