Coffee Cup: - a Book of Poems

By Mitchell Alexander Jackson

Creating your own poem is a wonderful experience.

For those persons who love to write poems and read poems, an outlet for creative expression is the Poetry Slam experience. Meanwhile, experience this volume of poetry. This book of poems, hopefully, will spark joy, wonder, and reflection for you, the reader. Also, this book has pages with space available to jot down ideas or create your own poem. And, maybe, you too will put pen to paper.

Mitchell Alexander Jackson has written four books, three of them have poetry as a main section. The name of the books are as follows: 1) Shorn Sharer, 2) Shorn Sharer— Leavings, 3) A Random Act Of Kindness—The loving Cup, 4) In Poetry, Prose And Song. Unlike the others, A Random Act Of Kindness— has only a handful of poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728345956

Mitchell Alexander Jackson

Mitchell Alexander Jackson likes warm weather and the change of seasons. He likes art—drawing and painting. He also likes to walk short distances in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia. Mr. Jackson also likes music. Mitchell Alexander Jackson has written four books, three of them have poetry as a main section. The name of the books are as follows: 1) Shorn Sharer, 2) Shorn Sharer— Leavings, 3) A Random Act Of Kindness—The loving Cup, 4) In Poetry, Prose And Song. Unlike the others, A Random Act Of Kindness— has only a handful of poetry.

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No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse  02/17/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-4596-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-4595-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020902260

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To the poet within

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Contents

Introduction

PART ONE

She Was Everything

No Thing To Happen

Be My Valentine

What Course

Tell Us About Your Dream, Martin

Evoking Night’s Hallowe’en

Hurricane Irma

Labor Day Glory

Labor Day Weekend

Little Surrie’s Day

Needed: Dreams

New Found Wave

Tax Returns

With Every Breath

When Terror Happened

At Her Feet

How Goes She

The Click

Floods

Stern

Fostered

A Sunny Day

He Communes

Her Flight

Level Of Beauty

Mother’s Day Hugs

Diet

Call To Easter

Memorial Day U.S.A.

For Father

Fourth Of July

Confessional

PART TWO

Yellow Haze

Only Knot

Don’t Need A Saddle

For What Is Taken

Misty Mornin’

Baby Fine

Nineties Outlaw Lament

Warrant-less They Came

No Thanks

Waiting

Both Night And Day

Joyful Way

To Mrs. Hall

Love Unbridled

Motherly Touch

My Dreams—Not

Savannah Calling

Can But A Few

I’ve Got Reservations

Questions

When The Peopled City Sleeps

Lady B

Ventured

Much Too Much

When Heaven’s Gates

Kind Cruelty

Of Nature

Last Lady B

A Difference

Jack-man

My Lord Told Me

Shout

Wake Away

Need Be I Start Again

Shadows Overall

Returning Love

Borne Up

Sanctum

Leave Way

Reason

Just Because

Redemption

That You Are

But When Awake

My Every Hour

I Doubt

Maybe

Mind On Georgia

Baked Reason

Bare Soul

Re-Create

Sadie Hopkins Grab

Hammer Or Claw

Precious

My Little Boys

To Stand

Disillusioned

Little Miss Know-It-All

My World Is Gray

Loneliness

Don’t Know Why

Jumping Jack

Love Aglow

Your Love, Girl

Sing, Lost Souls

And I Cry

Collier

People Are Moving

Being Fed

Rain, Rain, Rain

Conformist

Within The Self

Song

Day

Uncovered

Little Friend

Days Of A Lifetime

First To Learn

The People Of Color

Can But A Few

My Love Came Back

Token

Peopled City

Alone

Fettered Soul

Lovers True

When Heaven’s Gates

Kind Cruelty

Of Nature

A Part Yet Apart

A Difference

So Goes Life

The Lie

Introduction

Poetry comes in many categories. The theme can be of Life, Death, Love or numerous other topics. Of the various styles such as the Sonnet, Haiku, Free Verse, the Confessional, Rondeau are but a few. The list may include the Epic, the Ballad, Name poem, Ode, the Limerick, etc. And poems are of a bounty of things: I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud, by William Wordsworth, is about daffodils; Love And A Question, by Robert Frost, is about a bride and bridegroom being disturbed by a stranger at the door; Resume, by Dorothy Parker, is about suicide; I could not stop for death— poem 479— by Emily Dickinson, is about death; Richard Cory, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is another suicide, but it’s about life; Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare, is a sonnet about love. Of course, the explanations are surface meanings. Poem have deeper meanings, as well.

Poetry has been around a long time— Thousands of years. Beowulf is an example of this, and so too are the Iliad and the Odyssey. Modern poetry owns Prose Poetry. Prose Poetry is a blend of Prose and Poetry. In Prose Poetry and Poetry there are elements that are used to enhance the color of the poem. The elements include the following figures of speech: imagery, alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, rhythm, symbolism, etc.

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