Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

By William Atwell Crawford Jr.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465358028

William Atwell Crawford Jr.

Floetry to Poetry is a collection of poems by William A. Crawford, Jr. is a freelance writer, author of a collection of poems entitled Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow that is currently in print. He has a degree in Philosophy and is a seasoned poet He currently lives in the beautiful mountains of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. He lives a life of chronic pain and has a condition that requires him to live on pain killers and has for over 20 years. He has worked tirelessly with hope and has the faith that one day he will overcome his nightmare. He wishes to repair his mind, body and soul and has hope for a fulfilled life.

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Copyright © 2011 by William Atwell Crawford Jr.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011915472

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Contents

A Cry From Heaven’s Eye

A Dark And Dreary Mid-Summer Night

A Death Wish

A Double-Edged Sword

A Foreseeable Dream

A Letter To God

A Looming Shadow

A Love Story

A Mid-Summers Night Dream

A Mistress From The Dark

A Mystical Mirror

A Silent Voice

A Son

A Stranger’s Heart

A Thousand Days

A Timeless Journey

Abysmal

Addicted To Love

Against The Dark

Ageless Gender

Along The Snowy River

Along The Winding Road

Angel Eyes

At Dawn On A Winter Morning

Battle At Chancellorsville

Beauty

Behind Nature’s Foot

Behind The Shadow

Better Days Are Seen

Between Your Heart And Mine

Bliss

Blood For Blood

Boomerang

Brandi Dennette

Charlotte

Dancers In The Dark

Dancing With Death

Dark Regions

Day Of The Jackal

Dazed And Confused

Deadly Hollows

Delilah

Desperate Journeys

Distant Voices

Doomsday

Dreams

Echoes Of Laughter

Enemies Among Us

Escape From Love

Escape From Life Itself

Eternal Dawn

Eternal Darkness

Evolution

Fair Maiden

Fearless

Feelings

Glass Doors

Guardian Of The Night

Heart Of Darkness

Hell

Horror By Content

I Miss You

Images Of The Soul

Imaginary Lover

In Search Of Rio Grande

Isabel Lynn

Isabella Lee

John L. Sullivan

Just From Your Smile

Layla Lynn

Leaves Of Grass

Leaves Of Palm

Lennon

Love And Death

Love In Full Bloom

Love Is In The Air

Mary

Memories

Mirrors

Mistress Lady Hollow

Monologue

Mount Everest

My Fellow Man

Naples Bay

Norma Jean

Of Love And Loneliness

Old Glory

On Joseph’s Pond

On The Other Side

One-Sided Point Of View

One Cruel World

One Wrong Move

Passionate Kisses

Past Life

Peace Like A River

Perry Point

Requiem From The Darkness

Resolutions

Restless Spirits

Robin Anne

Shadow Wolves

Shattered Glass

Silence Of The Soul

Sleeplessness

Somewhere, Some Place In Time

Splendor Of The Grass

Straight From The Heart

Strength Of Heart

Sudden Ego

Sunset Haze

Sunshine

Suspended In Isolation

Swift And Silent

Take Me Far Away

Tears On My Pillow

Ten Minutes In Heaven

The Act Of Love

The Addicted Soul

The Adulterous Woman

The Birds

The Burning Rain

The Color Of Night

The Creature

The Darkness On The Edge Of Town

The Dreamers

The Eagle

The Edge Of Desire

The Edge Of The World

The Essence Of Love

The Evil Storm

The Green Door

The Guardian

The Hangman

The Human Soul

The Kingdom Of Love

The Kiss Of Death

The Last Stand

The Lesser Of Two Evils

The Living Tree

The Lonely Widow

The Love Of Life

The Love Of Man

The Madman

The Madness Of Man

The Merchant Of Death

The Naked Face

The Naked Shadow

The Naked Truth

The Pallbearer

The Possession

The Red Velvet Dress

The Rising Beast

The Seasons Of Time

The Shadow Of Love

The Shadow Of My Sins

The Six-Paneled Door

The System

The Terror That Lives Among Us

The Timepiece

The Transparent Rainbow

The Troll

The Unforeseen

The Universe

The Unknown Tree

The Valley Of Love

The Valley

The Virtue Of Love

The Wanderers

The Waters Of Life

The Way I Cry

The Well Of Souls

The White Bearded Man

The Wilderness

The Winding River

The Winds Of Immortality

The Wise Cracker

Three Little Birds

Time And Immortality

Transparent Poetry

Tsingy

Twilight

Under The Influence

Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree

Untamed Love

Upon My Grave

Vanishing Legacy

Visions Of The Earth

Voice Of Reason

Voices For Freedom

Waiting In The Shadows

Walls Of Glass

Weird Signs

What Shall Tomorrow Bring

When Love Cries

When My Life Flashed Before Me In The Morning Sun

Will The Future Hold The Clue

Winds Shifting As If They Had Something To Say

Wine, Women And Power

Young Heart

A CRY FROM HEAVEN’S EYE

You are as beautiful as a gleaming sunset,

Let thy loving kindness preserveth thee;

Bold with compassion, eager to bet,

The winds of laughter draw upon the sea.

As the seas calm amongst your presence,

Your eternal smile brightens the sky;

Sometimes, too complex at past tense,

A distant cry from heaven’s eye.

Donning fair skin, sometimes bearing gray,

When the external lines grow’st like buds;

Your beauty blossoms like a sunset astray,

Like the fruit of the cattle that chew their cud.

Lost in a world of glitter and fashion,

Quick to the talk, a loving reaction.

A DARK AND DREARY MID-SUMMER NIGHT

On a cold and dreary mid-summer night,

Between the titan along the river;

Through the clearing, a dark throne upright,

Yes, a quaint quiver, a most unholy shiver.

For I have reached the end of a desperate journey,

A route lolling and lonely;

With a taste of wisdom, guided by the sea,

As still waters are alone and free.

Towering behemoths stand tall over the horizon,

While the swift and clever butterflies spread their wings;

Thus, heavily covered in silk a darkened sun,

As a tiny flock of sparrows sings.

All so distant within this marvelous crest,

Down by the black woodland, roaming souls;

Aloft on this venture or quest,

As written by the underworld on scrolls.

A DEATH WISH

Set the silver sails to the east,

Feel the warmth over the dew;

Shimmering, shocking, go west,

Go astray, his greatness with so few.

Sometimes I wish that I were dead,

Render the smallness of this reality;

Prowling in the shadows through seas to plant my seed,

Let’s not mince words, I shall find my dignity.

Because mimicked by other phenomena,

To see a firefly in a fireworks display;

Slippery, sliding like a penna,

Fight today to live another day.

Humming birds and honeycreepers, drifting in eddies of wind,

A death with looms;

The slanting glass will bend,

Life and death are pivotal, it glooms.

A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD

Is to take no action still an action?

It’s like fighting without fighting,

It is like finding a distraction;

But like being faster than lighting.

Even when there are no winds,

The sands still sing;

The quality not quantity of life still bends,

As to adopt one’s values, keep them under their wing.

Do you feel this on the horizon?

And if you do share my views;

Look and look up towards the sun,

Forsaking this world, I have paid my dues.

A FORESEEABLE DREAM

How long must we suffer in this foreseeable dream?

My instincts and desires running wild,

Or do we want to suck greedily on life marrow and gleam;

To once agree and disagree, a running child.

Foreshadowed, to reveal the heart of darkness,

And to foresee the future;

Stop the craziness, insanity or madness,

Climb as high as you can possibly dream, then rupture.

A LETTER TO GOD

Oh Lord how I wish this pain within my heart would cease,

For my soul has traveled the world in search of peace;

For all the harsh words I have spoken,

Many a heart has been broken.

For I have often questioned my worth,

Even in the realm of birth.

So