Collection of Poetry

By Marc Maxwell

Where to begin? Sometimes poetry can be so complicated and very simple at the same time similar to my life. Collection of Poetry Volume 1 was written over a span exceeding twenty years. In fact, the poem "Tantrum" was written in 1987. I was fourteen that year and submitted that poem for an English class. I don't remember my teacher's name, but I do remember her disbelief. She couldn't believe I had written that piece. Throughout the years of my becoming of age into this adult world, leaving high school, and enrolling in Morgan State University's precollege program, I seemed optimistic about the journey. Only on the surface does the water appear calm, though. Underneath are waves of emotions, searching for a vent to be released in an expressive way, using creativity as the wheel behind the driving force, penetrating the surface, breaking into an atmosphere that is breathable and somewhat refreshing. In the first volume of several to come, the reader will encounter youthful thoughts pertaining to a young man's philosophy on isolation and his struggles of identifying himself without a mirror. We all grow, learn, and develop. But for some, it can be a crash course. For others, it's a breather. It was both for me—yin and yang.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646282357

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Collection of Poetry

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First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2020

ISBN 978-1-64628-234-0 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64628-235-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Almighty Grace

Bait

Blind Fold

Cleanse and Rinse

Comfort Me Miserably

Deception

Dollars and Sense

Dribble

Entice

Famine

Fathom

Happy Hunt

Hate to Hate

Lost Love

Merciful Love

Orphan

Rude

Sacrifice

Tantrum

This Place

Twin

Ugly

Void

Welcome

You

Abort

A Walk Home

Big Bang

Blue

Burden

Coffee Stains in My Bed

Demigod

Distraught

Empty

Evil

Fortune of Inevitability

Happy Hunt II

Joy

Kind of Love

Mesmerized

Paws at Pause

Resuscitate

Star

Stuck

Sun Set at Sea

The Flip Side

Time

Truth

Without Reason

Yin Yang

Volume 1

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

—Muhammad Ali

Preface

The school bell rings for almost a full minute, signaling the end of another day at Templeton Elementary School. I remember being the first among the group of escapees to trample the grass along the sidewalk.

My home at that time was well within walking distance, but I proceeded with a full-on sprint until I reached the front door. In the kitchen awaited an all chrome Huffy bicycle propped at attention, beckoning my command of assault.