New Hues and Past Tales - ebook edition

By Edmond Bruneau

New Hues and Past Tales is a collection of poetry from the head & heart of Edmond Bruneau. His meandering musings include thinking about his elderly father, life events turned into passages, self-reflection and sensitive observation. Humorous, sad, thoughtful or silly - all written in Bruneau's unique an

• Language: English
• Publisher: Boston Books
• Release date: Jan 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781936769056

Edmond Bruneau

Edmond Bruneau BiographyEdmond Bruneau was born in Redmond, Washington where he graduated high school and attended Eastern Washington University, became the campus newspaper editor and graduated with a degree in Journalism and Radio/Television. He was a FM radio announcer, advertising manager for the world's largest manufacturer of outdoor visual communication and began his own successful marketing and advertising firm, Creative Consultants in 1980, serving both regional and national clients. In 1986, he wrote Prescription for Advertising, a common sense guide for small and medium businesses reviewed by Inc. Magazine - and was popular in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and translated to Polish for the Poland market. Retired as president of the firm in 2009.Edmond's interest in poetry began in fifth grade, where he astounded his teacher with an original poem sympathetic to the plight of native americans. He began writing earnestly in high school and was encouraged by his poetry instructor to seek college professors and publishers to advance his writing career. In 2011, he compiled his first poetry book, Colors of My Within - a collection of original poems he had written from ages fifteen and twenty-one. His second book, New Hues and Past Tales, published in 2016, features 126 new poems revealing hope for the future and memories from the past. The Totem, published in 2018, includes 128 fresh poems and a short metaphysical tale about Grand Coulee Dam.After 48 years living in Spokane, his latest book, Walla Walla Sweet - packed full of poetic ponders of the pandemic and beyond, details his move to Walla Walla in 2019 and the nature of his experience, as he puts it, "finding his tribe." The 172 page book also features a separate section of thirteen pandemic poems detailed by the date they were written.Edmond also has written song lyrics for six Robot Raven CD's and for a musical duo in Germany named Liz'n Taylor.He also conducts a Zoom weekly poetry workshop every Monday afternoon with like-minded minds from the pacific northwest all the way to New Jersey.

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ISBN: 978-1-936769-05-6 - (ebook edition)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016910210

Cover Design: Edmond Bruneau

Illustration: Lisa Zador

For Donna –

whose continual

encouragement

made this book happen.

Table of Contents

FORWARD

Things to Put in my Pocket

Get it Right this Time

Mini Miracles

Saint Chicago

I’ll Tell You What Happens

Fireflies of Icarus

First Kiss

Summer in Color

Grandmother’s Supper

High as a Kite

Carnival Glass

Broken Wing

No Longer Zeus

Hoist Anchor

Common Bond

Sally, My Collie

Wide Awake, 3am

Will Work for Food

The World Grows Up Around Me

10:16pm on Dearborn

Mom’s Basket

Pal

I Will Wait

Raven’s Call

Redmond in the Rain

A Good Day for Fishin’

Shipwrecked

Over Your Head

Appomattox Awaits

When Dreams Come True

Seed of Inspiration

Hard Knocks Equinox

My Mirage

Let Me In

High Fidelity

George

Rise and Shine

Dog Years

Forest Lodge

Empty Space

Domini’s

Metamorphosis

Safe Harbor

I Light the Fuse

The Last Christmas

Same Old Song

High Bridge Park

My Favorite Pirate

Ides of My Essence

Extra Credit

I Would Have Told Her

Gasping at Straws

Earth Sojourned

My Favorite Things

Lilith

Holiday Hubbub

Safe and Insane

Merits of the Marshmallow

Picket Fence Facsimile

Time Bandit

A Flash in the Sky

Richie

Judas was a Surgeon

Spirits of Siren

The Pomegranate Diet

Picnic

Snake River Circus

Odonota

Piecing it Together

Old Redmond

The Strangest Everything

Spring Break

One More Day

Trapped in Doldrums

Burial of His Father on His Third Birthday

Trouble with Fire

The Earth is Flat

The Old Red Barn

Never Go to Bed Hungry

Time to Leave

Time and Temperature

Saved your Home

Two Valentines

Where are you Carol Morrison?

Just a Dream

When I Write

Challenger

Welcome to the CIA

A Bitter Pit

Winter Adieu

Strumpet Tremolo

The Paper Mill

Ambidextrous

When Angels Laugh

The Path

With a Whistle, Whiskey and Why

Green Beans

Soft Landing

Choice

Naked Bird

Morning, Without You

The Next Step

Four Agreements

The Me I Thought I’d Be

FORWARD

When I was young, I wrote poems all the time. Then, for whatever reason, I quit. Perhaps since I was a commercial writer for so many years, I didn’t have anything left in the tank for myself after writing for others.

I began attending a weekly poetry workshop at the beginning of 2015 to learn, after all those years, if I still had any sort of poetry mojo. In addition, I wanted to see if I would still enjoy the process. The answer was a resounding YES!

A special thanks to Lisa Conger, who leads the local poetry workshop with enthusiasm and inspiration, as well as the rest of the class participants for their helpful support.

This collection of poetry covers many subjects and can be humorous, sad, thoughtful or silly. My hope is, you as the reader will enjoy them as much as I did writing them.

– Edmond Bruneau

Things to Put in my Pocket

Before I die, I’ll take

a few things from my closet.

Sneak them along as I ascend,

tuck them into my soul pocket.

First and foremost I will take

the love I’ve given and gotten –

packed and folded carefully,

never to be forgotten.

The saturation of a sunset.

Laughter of a child.

A tender kiss, a runaway tear,

my imagination running wild.

Smell of frying bacon.

Warmth of a campfire.

A raven’s call, a seagull’s squall,

my insatiable desire.

I want to take the music.

I want to take the dance.

I want to bundle up it all

than leave it left for chance.

Don’t want to leave mistakes behind

or the lessons that I’ve learned.

I will carry them with me,

and bring them back when I return.

Get it Right this Time

Re-entry in 1953.

Another chance to shine.

Everything new

surrounds you.

Get it right this time.

Photos and first memories.

Ektachrome, Black & White.

Few things familiar

from former formulation.

Searching for the light.

Here to learn. Here to live.

Who, what, when and how.

Most people

spend a lifetime

trying to figure it out.

No roadmap. No GPS.

It’s that way by design.

Storms and struggle,

pieces to the puzzle.

Get it right this time.