Things I Couldn't Say Until Today

By Dave Black

Writing began by going through a box of poems I had written long ago, held in storage for decades. it contained many poems that became the foundation for this story. The theme became clear with the title poem The Things I Couldn't Say Until Today.

The story contains poems about Benevolence, a First Date, the special feelings of new love with This Magic Night Lingers and others. There are references to nature and seasons with True Nature, A Time for Spring, Summer Wishes, A Change of Season and Winter Land.

There are poems about living through lost love, like Fragments of Smoke and believing there is a someone for you as in A Better Plan. These lonely times provide a great back drop for other poems like Erosion and Fog to name a few.

The story includes moments of growth by making peace with the past, as portrayed in a poem called Bridge the Gap. The story ends with a reflective poem entitled Wedding Day Revisited which ties everything together. The original color illustrations enhance the Things I Couldn't Say Until Today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667865270

Dave Black

Dave Black is an internationally recognized consultant in emergency planning and disaster response. With nearly twenty years of experience in search and rescue and as a wilderness and urban first responder, he has served as a consultant and architect of community disaster response and management systems both in the United States and abroad.

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Things I Couldn’t Say Until Today

Copyright ©2022 by Dave Black. All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner what so ever

without the written permission of the author.

First Edition

Library of Congress Cataloging – in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN: 978-1-66786-526-3

eBook ISBN 978-1-66786-527-0

Contents

Prologue

Benevolence

First Date

It’s Time for Spring

Heaven in your Eyes

Our First Kiss

True Nature

Because of You

Our Simple Love

This Magic Night Lingers

Summers Wishes

Prelude

My Brightest Star

Water Color

My Thanks to You (a Love Song)

I’m Going to Say it

An Early Morning Prayer

Tonight’s Sky

Windy Day Thoughts

Skipping Stones

A Cold fall Night

Fog

Last Stop

Whether or Not?

Another Morning

Sunset in the Shadows

For a Lost Love

Crushed

Erosion

Aftermath

In Days of Rebound

Fragments of Smoke

One Year ago, Today

Another Phase of Loneliness

The Things I Couldn’t Say (until today)

Back On the Run

So Glad We MET (ode to the Days of Met Center)

Wild Oats

For a Drifter

Bridge The Gap

A Change of Season

Illusions

Last Fall Campfire

Snow Flurries

Winter Land

This Full Moon Winter’s Night

The Fog is Lifting

A Special Kind

First Signs of Spring

The Perfect Shell

I Wish you Well

When I get There

A Better Plan (Near MRS.)

True Loves So Few

Enough

Sharing Hands

Worth the Wait

I’m Falling for you

Ever Flowing

Coming Home

While you Sleep

Stages

Our Wedding Day (Revisited)

Dedications

Prologue

The Things I Couldn’t Say Until Today is the accumulation of many years of writing down certain moments in time and trying to put them into verse much like artists in the music world. I have grown up admiring the clever use of words and the telling of stories in song. Artists like Al Stewart and Dan Fogelberg, who can tell a story in perfect, yet simple rhyme were key influences. And the master, Bob Dylan, who can paint a story complete with deep yet relatable verse to a beat. You were and still are my idols!

Unfortunately, I have never been able to carry a tune musically. Yet, I have embraced the notion that I too, could tell a story with verse that spoke about a moment in time and that I could get a message to