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    Into the Black
    Into the Black
    Into the Black
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    Into the Black

    By Douglas Wilson

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    This collection of poetry focuses on the many facets of romantic love. Some of the poetry is written from Doug’s personal experience, while some of the poems are “snapshots of life” that we can all relate to. Wilson’s poetry will toy with your emotions and it will cause you to think.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 29, 2020
    ISBN9781663205384
    Into the Black
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    Douglas Wilson

    Douglas Wilson is a senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. Wilson isthe author of numerous books on education, theology, and culture, including: The Case for Classical Christian Education , Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning , Mother Kirk , and Angels in the Architecture , as well as biographies on both Anne Bradstreet and John Knox.

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      Into the Black - Douglas Wilson

      Copyright © 2020 Douglas Wilson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      iUniverse rev. date: 07/28/2020

      CONTENTS

      Into The Black

      I Need You

      Face Within The Wndow

      The Dark Side

      Bounce The Baby

      The Girl Next Door

      I’m Not That Sort of Man

      You Need Not Ask Me Twice

      Hold Me, Say Nothing

      The Night Keeper

      The Unbroken Circle

      A Puff of The Dragon

      Howl at The Moon

      I Wish That I Knew

      I Will Still See You

      She Sleeps

      Fourteen Hours from Cebu

      It’s A Mystery To Me

      A Place That We Might Go

      Passing The Point Of No Return

      The Carol I Sing

      To Know and Remember

      Your Quest is Through

      Through A Looking Glass

      It Was How She Looked at Me

      Love Eternal

      Only in Dreams

      The Moon in Cebu

      A Gold Star Parent

      A Tanqueray Night

      I Am Still Here

      Simply Let Them Be

      All I Need is You

      Breathless

      Out of Love, I Let You Go

      Reflection On Our Election

      She Shall Wonder, Why?

      Somehow, It’s Enough

      The Mermaid in The Ice

      Without A Word

      A Dangerous Girl

      A Long Drive Home

      A Love Most Rare

      A Shadow Across The Moon

      An Orange Sherbet Sky

      Do I Still Remember?

      Don’t Order Another Drink

      Goodbye Sweet Rosa Lee

      I Don’t See The Labels

      I Will Never Leave

      I Wish to Fall in Love Again

      It’s A Big Ship

      Lavender Days and Midday Blues

      Leaving New Orleans

      Let My River Run

      Looking Back at College Days

      One Night on Luzon

      Sunday Morning, Coming Down

      The Faith to Believe in Us

      The Girl Upon The Ledge

      The Holiday Letter

      Three Fair Maidens

      Throughout Time

      Waiting for Peter Pan

      Where Ever Does My Love Go?

      Why Did It End Like This?

      A Cobra In The Garden

      A Heart Must Come To You

      A Human Heart is A Curious Thing

      A Time of Trial Has Come

      Alone, At The Edge of Night

      Before You Can Burn A Witch

      Blush of The Rose

      Butterfly, Fly Away

      I Am Voyager

      I Didn’t Believe in Luck

      If The Rocks Could Talk

      In Worlds Not Far Away

      Knowing When to Leave

      Life is Lived in Moments

      Love Asks Not

      Mandarin Eyes and Magadang Smiles

      Mankind’s Wakeup Call?

      May Lynn

      My Better Half

      No More than Dreams?

      On A Dark and Stormy Night

      One Can Never Know

      One Shall Rule Alone

      Reflection

      Seven Miles from Nowhere

      She’ll Be Back

      Surrounded By The Inland Seas

      The Second Shoe to Fall

      The Ballad of Tom and Polly Hill

      The Bells of Warriner Hall

      The Carousel

      The Death of Eddie Myers

      The Fate of Tomorrow

      The Lotus Flower

      The Midnight Train

      The Music of My Generation

      The Old Friends

      The Solitary Goose

      They Were Cowboys

      Too Much Tonic, Lime and Gin

      To Tame The Tiger

      Until The Last Star Fades Away

      Waiting My Time to Fly

      What Do You See?

      What Most Impresses Me

      When Love Exists No More

      When Our Dreams are Gone

      When Our Two Worlds Collide

      Why Don’t We Go There?

      You and Your Little White Dress

      You Lose A Part of You

      You Must Mount that Horse

      You Will Find Me There

      The Midnight Writer

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      PROLOGUE

      Douglas L. Wilson grew up in the small rural Northern Michigan town of Grayling. He is a graduate of Central Michigan University. Doug recently retired from a forty year career as an educator, youth counselor, and family social worker. Doug and his wife continue to reside in the Grayling area and they are frequent visitors to Doug’s alma matter in Mount Pleasant. Doug has been a poet for over fifty years and he is the author of the popular book Echoes and Shadows.

      Into the Black is Doug’s second book. This collection of poetry focuses on the many facets of romantic love. Some of the poetry is written from Doug’s personal experience, while some of the poems are snapshots of life that we can all relate to. Wilson’s poetry will toy with your emotions and it will cause you to think.

      My sincerest thanks to my wife, Tracy and my daughter, Carlie Jane, for their time and technical assistance in compiling this collection of work.

      Into the Black is dedicated to Doug’s family,

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