A Time Called Never

By Estanislao Rodriguez-Cuevas

I have a need to write these of poems or just plain words, carelessly scribbled down . . . You be the judge. Just thoughts of thoughts and maybe dreams of crazy things that come to mind, most every minute of the day or night, like midnight dances on a lake with swans or flying midair in a balloon.
Speaking to God and you of love and majesty like good friends often do . . .
I’ll bear my muse for all the world to read—not caring if the verse is right; it’s just something that I’m compelled to do. Please enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796080056

Estanislao Rodriguez-Cuevas

Estanislao Rodriguez-Cuevas Born on August 1, 1945, in Utuado, Puerto Rico by God’s design—moved to San Francisco at the age of five—where I attended school and enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Germany. An artist—medium: painting, drawing, collage, digital art, photography, am a writer of poetry. I started writing in high school. As I have always enjoyed the ability to express myself on paper rather than verbally. My favorite poetics are Frost and Poe. Also Kipling’s “If”, a piece that I have tried to emulate, throughout my life. I have written five poetry manuscripts, which are self-published and can be purchased on Amazon. “Lovers and Other Strangers”, “Behind Closed Doors”, “Life’s Trilogy”, “Sliding Through Homo Sapiens and Coming Up with Answers”, and “The Other Side of Paradise”. I also run “the Three-lin Minimalism Poetry Group” within “AllPoetry.com” with a group of 310 active and non-active membership of writers/poets. Three-line Minimalism poem structure: Three lines with ten syllables or less per line. My books are written for those of you in love with love; the world and (to update)

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Copyright © 2020 by Estanislao Rodriguez-Cuevas.

Library of Congress Control Number:     2019921110

ISBN:                  Hardcover                         978-1-7960-8007-0

                            Softcover                            978-1-7960-8006-3

                            eBook                                 978-1-7960-8005-6

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Rev. date: 12/23/2019

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CONTENTS

Echoes

Now Descending

Bits of Bits of Bits

Pretending All Is Right

Let’s Not Die Tonight

When Life Looks Like An Easy Street …

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The Glory of His Reign

The Paradise of Indigestion

A Day in the Life of a Righteous Buffoon

Within the Walls of an Asylum

In Between Opposites

Life’s Engagements

Old Haiku Master

Deep, Deeper, Deepest

Tomorrow, Yesterday, Now

Just Because II

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The Loneliness of One

A Winter’s Wish

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Bits of Genius Left Behind

Eventually

Those Times

Three-Line Daydreams Midnight Trances

Between Dreams and Reality

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My First Encounter

Short and Sweet

Loving Thoughts in a Harden World

Rainbows: Where Eternity Resides

Weather Conditions—Swirls of Color

Having the Need but Not the Stamina

Rolling Life’s Barrow over Indentations

Wisdom of a Floundering Fish

A Soul in Poverty

In the Middle Of …

In Dreams

Sitting on a Stool of Thought

Maturity - Youth

A Broken Look—Staring Eyes

Love’s Nightmare

Home—Under the Chicken Coop

Over the Edge and Through the Forest of Chaos—Will We Ever Learn

Anxious to Go with No Destination

While the Night Is Cool, I’ll Catch a Few Daydreams for Tomorrow …

My Left Foot over My Head and Rain Is Forecast

Dali’s Ship

An August Child

The Moment All Hell Breaks Lose

Abstract Metaphors in a Land of Reality

Just Say Hello

The Pictures that I’ve Seen

Mad, Mad Heart of Glass

Broken Again

Wagging Tails Do Bite

This Morning’s Upchuck

Strength/Knowledge to Be Humble

Failing to Produce

Another Day, Another Thought

Searching for My Lost Mind under a Hunter’s Moon

Crawling Down the Spineless Back of an Amoeba

Fighting the Enemy and It’s Me

Running Through a Pack of Sundays

Hail Are the Tears of a Broken Man

Returning Back to the Beginning after a Night in the Cold.

Revolving Doors—Silent Wind

On a High-Swinging Swing, You Can Touch Pluto

Meeting Myself in a Broken Mirror

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Finishing the End of a New Beginning

Tomorrow May Never Come, But We Still Have Today …

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Taking a Tip from the Sandman

Raindrops, Floods, and Misdemeanors

Upper Half of the Bottom

Sunday’s Blessings

A Kaleidoscope of Emotions—Thrills

Waiting on the Downward Swing

Sitting Inside My Head—Visiting the Id

Fishing in a Crystal Fishbowl

New Beginning Follows a Fall …

Sitting on an Acorn under a Hunter’s Moon

Red-White-Blue Fourth Haiku

This Time Is Ours

Tomorrow Is Not, Just Another Day

A Baker’s Dozen II

Could It Be …

The Sum of You and Me

Minutes Remembered/Lost

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Bizarre Mondays

Rain

Good-Bad Moments

Lies

Day-to-Day Night

Recycled

Forbidden Fruit

Sweet Memories

Tweaking the White Rice—Black

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Making a Point

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The Quill, My Muse—Friends

Turning the Page

Never Again—Maybe …

Another Day—Counting

A Thursday Study on a Monday

Yet to Come …

Enough …

I’m Going to Die

Becoming Who

The Road That Waits …

Dried Mistletoe

To all who made a difference in my life—the good, the bad, the in-between—and helped made this book possible, you know who you are, my sincere thanks and appreciation.

I have a need to write these of poems or just plain words, carelessly scribbled down … You be the judge. Just thoughts of thoughts and maybe dreams of crazy things that come to mind, most every minute