American Prose

By Joseph Lacerenza

Within the covers of this book you will discover my version of the Founding Father's concerns Set to rhyme along with military prose depicting events as a memorial to the sacrifices that They Made. There are poems of life, along with its lessons of love and tears, triumphs and fears that seem To last though out the years. If you like inspirational poems to help you get through the trials of every day, enjoy. For those of you with children to raise, there is some not so free advice that will probably have You laugh. Those of you who like Romance there is something there for you too. There are poems for dating wisdom. There are religious poems that mirror Prophecy for those of you that follow God's word made Manifest. I think that there are poems that display a way to help us get grace into our Lives and finally there are some poems in there that I wrote to help me over my failures in life That some may identify with. Now to the most important issue, who would want to read my book? All those God fearing people like myself who aspire to restore the Liberty that the Founders Gave us and Refuse to forget the sacrifices of blood, sweat and tears it took to build this Nation may read this book and remember.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641402149

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Preface

I didn’t start out to write a book on poetry, from the time I was young like most other people, when I came to a problem in my life that caused stress, I found a way to cope with it. If my mother was extremely angry with someone or something, she would put a rug on the clothes line and beat it till all the dust was out of it (sometimes this would take an hour to do). My mother was a very, very kind and gracious woman, she rarely showed anger so because of her example I would find different ways to vent my frustrations and my disappointments : for anger, I would hit a speed bag, and for disappointment I would write, so what is set down in the following pages sometimes may appear lame to some even weakness, but feelings both in men and women are lame. They are the bare nerves of an exposed heart, especially when you invest time in the other person only to have them decide that they have hurt you enough and it’s time to move on.

For patriotism, no man in his right mind likes war, Wars are a product of greed, control and hate, My poems tend to look at the sacrifice and loss more than glory. There is no real glory in war and one can only hope that your right when you’re caught up in one, (you know), (may the Lord protect the right). Our veterans deserve all the honor that we can give them for injuries incurred and the sleepless nights they suffer due to the horrors of war.

There are lessons to be learned and my poems are a reflection of the observations set to rhyme, religion, and my faith, the Christian faith. The Faith the United States Constitution is based has as its underpinnings: the Dignity of freedom and the inherent Nobility of Man, this is why our Legal system has the (presumption of Innocence), as John Adams said (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious