JailHouse Poet

By George Landi

A book of poems written in jail between 1976-1986 based on the stories and lives of other inmates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781642983807

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JailHouse Poet

George Landi

Copyright © 2018 George Landi

All rights reserved

First Edition

Page Publishing, Inc

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc 2018

ISBN 978-1-64298-379-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64298-380-7 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

I would like to dedicate this book to the inmates of Berks County Prison who did time between 1976–1986 in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Seasons of Man

I am the poet

I am the pen;

I’m all the pieces

the players the men;

I am the soldiers

that go off to war;

I am the lover

That comes home no more.

I am the secret

that floats on the breeze;

I am the full moon the waves of the sea.

I am the feeling

I am the life;

I am the husband

I am the wife.

I am the epoch

The last curtain call;

I am the writer that

Come from a fall.

I am the hope

In small children’s eyes;

I am the moment

That waits between signs.

I’m the disappointment, the terror of fear;

I am all love

and the cry of a tear.

I am that glimpse

at a moment’s despair;

I am the heart

I’m they who care

I am the happy

and the feeling of gloom;

I am the specters

The shadows in rooms.

I am the sunlight

the warmth of your days;

I am you

in so many ways.

I am the lonely

the strength of the right;

I am the visions

that come in the night.

I am the rivers

the bending of knees;

the prayers on your lips

the return of your pleas.

I am all seeing

and the seeker of truth;

I am the verdict

I am the proof

I am the source

of the feelings you need;

I am the planter

that sows up that seed.

I am the words

that inside you they lie;

I am your fate

the wonders of why

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