Passages

By C.N. Cantelon

Collection of Poetries - passages about life, love and experiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Apr 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781698711782

C.N. Cantelon

I studied writing in the late 1960's at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, taking classes from William Stafford, Vern Rutsala and James Liddy, among others. I earned my BA in Literature there, then went on to get an MA in English Literature fom the University of Southern California. I began publishing individual poems in magazines and anthologies during that time. I didn't pursue publishing until 2014, when I had my first book, "Continuity," published. Since then, I have published three more books of poetry and prose with Trafford. "Mind Music" will probably be my last.

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isbn: 978-1-6987-1177-5 (sc)

isbn: 978-1-6987-1179-9 (hc)

isbn: 978-1-6987-1178-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022908232

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Contents

Pebbles

Love Again

Adjustments

Teaser

Too Much

Love You

Special

California

Never Lover

The Kiss

Visio n

Love at Bay

Crossing

Elation

Masks

Heaven Cries

Portal

Tattoos

Escape

Illusion

Too Much

Imprisoned

The Choice

I Told You

Limits

Distain

Walls

Only Words

Sympathy

Winds

A Blessing

I Wish

An Apology

A Plea

Letting Go

Alone In Love

Autumn

Being

Limits

Coquille

What We Have, Here

Deception

Heaven’s Eyes

History

Memories On A Birthday

Whispers

Now

Rain

Seagulls

Western Winds

Winter Sun

Without You

You and I

You Deserve A Valentine

Looking

Human Heart

Today, We Love

A Song of Change

Accept

Conspiracy

Conversely

Depressed

Free Flow

Never Doubt

Ode to Love

Ode to Anger

Old Spring

Possibilities

Prism

To Write A Song

Values

What Time Is It?

You and Me

New Thoughts

Aura of Love

Denuded

I Contemplate

Hunter Gatherers

Country Pilgrimage

On the One Hand

Reconsiderations

Breathing to Be

His Will

Clapping

Zen Again

Flip the Page

Portland Window

The Word

Adrift

Erato

Unreasonable

Understanding

Love Now

Stuck

Specters

Schism

Magic Dragons

Insane

I Rode It

Hey, Man

Distracted

Did You Think?

Change

Beware

I Have Failed

Pilgrimage

Purpose

You’re Right

I Miss You

Thank God For You

Spa Day

Consider, Please

Honesty

Real Love

Snowflakes

Tossed

Two Souls

Your Smile

An Exercise In W

An Open Window

Captured

Going Home

Why Write?

Cloudy

I Write

Music

Opportunity

Other Worldly

Root Entry

Seasons of Man

Blessings

Fantasy Pep Talk

How to Skip a Stone

Teach Me

The Play

The Me In The Sea

The Score Card

Pebbles

Pebbles tossed into a pond

Cause ripples extending beyond

Anything the thrower intended.

A lady I lightly befriended

Grows in the circles of my affection

Into something approaching perfection

Until her aspect fills my mind –

Nothing intended but, somehow, designed.

I’ve found that her every action

Results in my satisfaction.

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Love Again

I have known love from time to time.

I have dared to commit to someone.

I have been a part of something sublime

And have felt the pain of a love undone.

I thought I could not love again

Nor give so much of myself away.

But love comes, unasked and unsought.

I feel it again with you, today.

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Adjustments

At first, this constant change worried me.

I was confused and discouraged, constantly.

Myriad adjustments seemed the rule.

Often, I came out feeling the fool.

I traveled to Oregon, land of my birth,

To recapture a sense of my own worth.

I walked on the beach and heeded the wind.

I believe it focused me, again.

The sea sends waves upon the shore.

Every ebb takes away. Every flow adds more.

It never kisses the same soft beach.

It persists, at no time out of reach.

I returned to show I understand

How we know so little in the end.

The ebb and flow of love,