Sometimes I Smile: Collected Poetry
By Derek Cross
()
About this ebook
Derek Cross
Derek Cross is a historian, musician, freelance artist, and poet. As a lifelong creator, he uses his art and writing as a form of expression and connection. He is also a dedicated Vajrayana practitioner who is helping to bring happiness to everyone through the arts. This is his second poetry collection.
Related to Sometimes I Smile
Related ebooks
3 Years: Healing Not Healed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions Under Cratered Moons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSleepless Nights Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Heart of Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Black and White: A poetry Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnlimited Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCreature of a Different Mind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoneycomb Heart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaggers In My Soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gardens of Blue Grass and Violet Trees: A Book of Poetry and Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOh, for Nothing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContinuity: A Book of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBared Expectations: Poetry Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Horse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReservations on a Cloud Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWild Flowers: By the Silent Poet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThoughts of a Twenty Something Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDefrosted Gems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDon’t Look Down: You Are Here Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Downfall of Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnigma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFold Unsealed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNarrow Droplets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUNEARTHED & REBIRTHED Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUndeserved Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings101 Lentos: Poems of the new millennium featuring poets across the world. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOteng's Poems: Files of Wisdom Dialogue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVariegated Leaves Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Peak Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTaintlessness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Sometimes I Smile
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Sometimes I Smile - Derek Cross
Sometimes I Smile
collected poetry
by Derek Cross
Sometimes I Smile
Collected Poetry
Copyright ©
2022
Derek Cross. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,
199
W.
8
th Ave., Suite
3
, Eugene, OR
97401
.
Resource Publications
An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
199
W.
8
th Ave., Suite
3
Eugene, OR
97401
www.wipfandstock.com
paperback isbn: 978-1-6667-5876-4
hardcover isbn: 978-1-6667-5877-1
ebook isbn: 978-1-6667-5878-8
Table of Contents
Title Page
Inspiration
To Keats
As I Am
My Process
A Life’s Endeavor
Ode to Birds
Our Happy Place
I Dream
A Means to an End
A Poorly written Ode to the Masters
The Obvious Choice
A Simple Answer
A World at War
Barbarians
A Kind World
Dark Night
Lament of Desire
My little Demon
An End of Jealousy
Bliss Clarity
Devotion
Friends
Autumn in Tokyo
A Sweet Invitation
Dawn of Shame
True Love
Contentment
The Moments I live for
All I have
Discipline
A Day in the Life
She Loves Me
Flashy birds
Untitled
Fear
Hungry Hungry Death
Aye, there's the Rub
Two Abreast
Incoherent Ramblings
Verbosity
On the Other Side
My Tattoo
Joyful Release
Criticism
Heartless
Withered
Less than Soot
Moral Envy
Fresh Veal
Miraculous
Sonnet of Impermanence
It Sustains Me
Diligence
Be Like Water
Destiny
Change
Interdependent