A Poet's Mind and a Musician's Soul

By Edward Waples Jr.

A poet's Mind and Musician's Soul (A storybook in rhyme) Edward A. Waples Jr. With illustrations By: Amalia B. Waples, and Raven M. R. Waples Edward A. Waples Jr. is a storyteller. He takes us on a journey through poems that touch on current events, love, spirituality, and the human experience. This is a book of emotional, and thought-provoking poetic stories for the 21st century. Take the journey and enjoy the ride!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647013769

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A Poet's Mind and a Musician's Soul

Edward Waples, Jr.

Copyright © 2020 Edward Waples, Jr.

All rights reserved

First Edition

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PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

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First originally published by Page Publishing 2020

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Cover Design by Amalia B. Waples

Illustrated by Amalia B. Waples and Raven M.R. Waples

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ISBN 978-1-64701-375-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64701-376-9 (digital)

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Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Homeless

Wealthy? Really?

Guns in Our Schools

The Burning Forest

Tragedy

Catfishing

Hippie Days

I’ll Remember Dad

A Mother’s Love

I Walked with an Angel by the Sea

My Fairy-tale Queen

The First Time

Childbirth

Children

When the Children Were Small

Seventeen

Childhood

Do You Recall?

The Truth

Nuclear Nightmares

My Country

Where Will We Be?

Sympathy for the Dragon

Meditation

Forgotten Truth

Jewels

Mercy

Positivity

I Believed in Angels

Christmas Bells

In Worship’s House

The Test

What We Are

My Prayer

If Jesus Christ Should Come Again

Soul Food

The Mask

We Ran for the Trolley Car

The ’60s New Orleans

Music

Composers and Musicians

I Play

The Death of Melody

My Ghostly Trip

Haunted Places

E.T.

A Life Must Be Taken

Ode to a Pesky Fruit Fly

My Neighbor’s Chickens

Potato Chips

Lost Desserts

The Bakery Calls

Turkeys

Holidays

Preface

Welcome to my heart and soul! This is my first book, and I’m grateful for your interest. I strived to create a book of thought that is true for me, informative and pleasurable to you, and understandable and relatable to all.

I have always been inspired by the works of the master poets and authors like Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, William Shakespeare, Poe, and Langston Hughes. They are expert storytellers as well as master wordsmiths. Their works have inspired scholarly study and stoked the imagination of many poets and authors in all genres. My goal in writing this book was to also tell good short stories in a poetic styling. While classes may not be constructed around my work (yet), I believe you will find a few gems here as well.

Some of my works, such as I’ll Remember Dad, A Mother’s Love, I Walked with an Angel, and Children speak of family connections. This subject was, is, and always will be precious and dear to my heart.

Other poems such as Christmas Bells, The Test, The Mask, We Ran for the Trolley Car, and a few others reflect the emotions and mental trials many of us experience when adversity and negative perceptions are allowed to flourish in our lives.

Do You Recall? My Country, Where Will We Be, and others speak to the political and mental temperament of this country today.

Guns in Our Schools and The Burning Forest reflect current disasters we see much too often in the news.

There are also healthy smatterings of faith and morality based and philosophical poems here as well. Poems like Homeless, Mercy, Jewels, In Worship’s House, and a few others will reflect this.

I’ve even included some experiences that I’ve had as a youth that border on the supernatural.

The poems My Ghostly Trip and Haunted Places are prime examples.

Should my work inspire thought, provoke emotions, or change a few minds, I will consider myself supremely complimented. Please enjoy the stories with an open mind, and thank you again for reading me!

—Edward A. Waples Jr.

Acknowledgments

I would like to give thanks to all the people in my life who inspire me and made writing this book a joy.

Thank you, Holy Spirit, through whom I operate and exist! Thank you for my life and creative energies! Please look after