The Burl Becomes the Blossoming

By William Flewelling

Poetry writing has proven proficient at helping me see what is there to be seen. I will see or hear or reflect on something which then provides an image, a nuance that emerges in a word, a line. The single line and image, written, provides a cadence, a focus of sound and echo that invites a second line, and more. Usually, they come quickly and run until they tell me they are done and the poem is complete. This book draws upon such poems over a pair of sweeps of my history plus a sampling of more current poems that strike me as desirable in this collection. These pieces of my past often recollect for me the occasion but also leave that occasion obscured and allow the poem to do its work of creating an image and a flow in my own mind. The poems, in my experience, write their meaning on my mind. And, I hope, on yours as well. For then the poems do their work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665569217

William Flewelling

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in central Illinois. Led by a request from Mildred Corwin of Manua OH when I arrived there in 1976, I long developed and led a series of bible studies there and in LaPorte IN and New Martinsville WV. These studies proved to be very feeding to me in my pastoral work and won a certain degree of following in my congregations. My first study was on 1 Peter, chosen because I knew almost nothing about the book. I now live quietly in retirement with my wife of 54 years, a pair of dogs and several cats.

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Contents

Foreword

1. Lumbering Through

2. On The Wrong Day

3. As Dew Might Lie Upon The Web

4. The Sudden Sound

5. Appearances In Fact

6. As Almost Seen

7. Thoughts On Memorial Day

8. The Presence Of That Vacancy

9. On Her Leaving

10. The Carrier Of Post

11. For The Sixth Of June, 2021

12. At Cabaret … As If

13. Too Late For Favorites

14. With Christmas Tease

15. Engaging Joy

16. A Mother’s Son

17. As Independence Day Draws Near

18. The Silver Lights

19. Along The Bye

20. Across The Lintel

21. A Simple Question Answered

22. Sitting For The Day’s Own Chore

23. One Face Among The Troop

24. At Multitasking

25. On Copeland’s Zion’s Walls

26. Converging An Ambiance

27. Classic Ovals In Cream

28. Remembering The Opening Smile

29. A Slow, Slow Walk

30. The Bird’s Bursting Appearance

31. In Melancholy Mood

32. The Addition At The End Of The Iterated List

33. Just Talking Now

34. Apparently Aware

35. Besides The Obvious

36. Above The Lower Briars

37. With Uncongested Inches Spare

38. As Communion’s Brought To Him

39. Stray Concentration

40. From A Fallen View

41. Suddenly, From The Other Room

42. An Illinois August Moon

43. The Single Staring Steer

44. As The Shirt Expresses Reality

45. Before Autumns Dawdling Dawn

46. Announcing Her Arrival

47. Two, Each Alone

48. One Star

49. In Postlude: Deo Gratias

50. On A Windswept Night

51. My Flirting Tease

52. The Hand Responding

53. Trotting To Join Her Grandma

54. Briefly Overseen

55. Beginning In A Prayer

56. The Cannons Stand For Memory

57. The Lead And Those Who Follow After

58. Contented Joy

59. Tree Climber

60. That Was Emily

61. A