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    Poetry to Students and Amateurs: The Voices From My Psyche
    Poetry to Students and Amateurs: The Voices From My Psyche
    Poetry to Students and Amateurs: The Voices From My Psyche
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    Poetry to Students and Amateurs: The Voices From My Psyche

    By YL KOK

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    This book is written for students, elementary and secondary, and for adults, both of whom are amateurs who enjoy reading poems with fun and pleasure.

    Based upon my personal experiences, I have written the poems bit by bit. They are the voices from my psyche that can help readers create a new corner for imagination, fantasy, and empathy.

    They can help gauge the differences between realities and ideals as well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTellwell Talent
    Release dateOct 29, 2021
    ISBN9780228866350
    Poetry to Students and Amateurs: The Voices From My Psyche
    Author

    YL KOK

    An Hong Kong born Torontonian, YL Kok, also named K.O.K. and/or Mr. K.O.K. in the States, holds two degrees, one in the US and one in the UK.Once a New Yorker, he later went back to the Far East and was engaged in the international trade.Hobbies include practicing Chinese and Western calligraphy and painting. He enjoys reading, writing, and travelling, and is going to publish several short stories and another book of poetry.

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      Poetry to Students and Amateurs - YL KOK

      Poetry

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      Students

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      Amateurs

      The Voices From My Psyche

      YL KOK

      Poetry to Students and Amateurs

      Copyright © 2021 by YL KOK

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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      978-0-2288-6634-3 (Paperback)

      978-0-2288-6635-0 (eBook)

      Table of Contents

      A Note To Readers: Writing My Own Ticket

      A Curse: Ma Ma Ma

      A Moment Of Absurdness

      A Playful Playful Little Star

      A Strange Peep

      Can God Control Devils

      Cling Cling Cling

      Com’on, Give Us A Break

      Here Comes A Horribe Dream

      Hope For The First Month

      Loan Sharks Swimming Around You

      Miss Moon Miss Moon, Why Are You So Sad

      My Heart Pounds Like A Ping-Pong

      People On Crosswalks

      Please Don’t Look So Sad

      Rainy Days

      Screaming Their Heads Off

      Seats And Eats On Airline

      Sight Deception

      Sympathy

      The Moon’s On Duty

      Van Gogh

      Why Four Was Always The Number When Things Happened

      Avant-Garde Free Verse

      A Nil You Have Become

      A Phone Call To My Doggie

      Ask No Questions

      Complaints In A Restaurant

      Curiosity Kills The Cat

      Elopements

      God, Please Be Awake

      I Know, I Exist, I Belong

      In The Mist Vanishes

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