A Dream Lover's Rhetoric

By Elwood Gene-Mishmah

A Dream Lover’s Rhetoric is a compendium of poems and poetical writing dealing with themes of the impact of dreams on love and other relationships. This lyrical work also focuses on inspiration and gratitude as well as self-determination and the importance of maintaining balance within oneself, while also showing respect for others by valuing one another through the spirit and matrix of togetherness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Dec 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781977260666

Elwood Gene-Mishmah

Elwood Gene – Mishmah is a retired educator, school administrator, and consultant who began writing poetry during his preteen years. A Dream Lover’s Rhetoric is his seventeenth poetry collection. Mishmah currently lives in Palm Coast, Florida.

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A Dream Lover’s Rhetoric

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DEDICATION

In loving memory of Carol, Andora, Marsha, Mirta, Harriet, and Kathy

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

A sincere, hearty thanks and appreciation with love to each of you:

Carole, Cecilia, Miriam, Loretta, Ruth, Juanita, Louise, Jacqueline, Ophelia, Brenda, Tina, Gloria, Rose, Jennifer, Deatra, Ann, Diane, Jean, Marsha, Margaret, Jessie, Lillian, Paulette, Synthia, Dorothy, Charmaine, Ludie, Sheryl, Lois, Doris, Ernestine, Grace, Lisa, Sandy, Barbara Jean, Pinky, Annie Pearl, Alethea, Janice, Dorcas, Gladys, Donna, Rochelle, Claudette, Leslie, and Lulia

Gene, the Jiver from Fort

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STANZA I (OK YOU ASKED)

STANZA II (BELIEVE)

INTERJECTION (CONCEITED)

STANZA III (HEY YOU)

STANZA IV (REFLECTIONS)

STANZA V (WE TOO BELIEVE)

STANZA VI (PROMISE TO FULFIL)

T TIME

T TIME AGAIN

L O V E LETTERS

LOVE TRAIL

SAND DANCE (RENDEZVOUS)

OVERNIGHT LOVELIGHT

GRANDPA’S FIRST BREATH OF FREEDOM AIR26

SELF REVELATION

MISSING IN REACTION

PRIMAL TOUCH

REASON TO CONFESS

MORE SAID THAN DONE

NIGHT LIFE TURNOUT

ANOTHER BIRDIE NIGHT

MERRILY, MERRY CHRISTMAS

LOVE BREEZE

CAPRICIOUS

WHAT A SHAME IT WAS

DREAM LOVE PARADIGM

ANOTHER VISIT (CAREFREE)

MISSING YOU

PRECIOUS ARTISTIC DREAM

ESCAPADE

BYE BYE BIRDIE AGAIN

BURDEN OF PROOF

TRUE PASSION

DURABLE GUIDANCE

YESSIRREE

DREAMS WITHIN A DREAM

OCCASIONALLY

STAUNCHY DREAMS

DREAMY PERSISTENCY

CHILLED OUT DREAMS

TIME RAPIDITY

AMERICA, GOOD OLE USA

MIDNIGHT SUNBEAM

REMINISCING (DREAM LOVE NOTE)

WORTHWHILE DREAMING

WHENEVER WHEN

HEARTY CHASE

MOONLIGHT BEAMS

FOR CERTAIN

SWEET DREAM COMPLETE

REMINISCENCE

TONAL HINDSIGHT

TIMELINESS

PRIME TIME DREAM

HEART SUNRISE

SHARED DREAM

LIBERTY OR PAY RENT

WB (WRITER’S BLOCK)

RIGHT NOW

WRITER’S BLOCK LESSON II

ARCHAICISM

ON PRODUCTIVITY (A BEGINNING)

JUST BE

GRATEFUL

LAST NIGHT DAYDREAM

WIND DANCING

MUCH ADO ABOUT DREAMS

TGIF

HAPPY TO SING AGAIN

A TOUCH OF LOVELINESS

FREEDOM HUG

ARE YOU FREE? BUZZ!

CASUAL PERSUASION

ON INFINITY

BRAIN DRAIN DUMP

DO A MIND DECLUTTER

STAY HOME

PRODUCTIVE INSIGHT

CAGEY

FEELING YOU

K O K O

HEART DREAM

GREEN LEAVES LULLABY

WAY WEST

CHOICE OF VOICE OR VOICE OF CHOICE?112

HURRICANE DANCING

WHAT IF IT IS FOR REAL?

TRULY

MY LOVE SONG

STORMS

THE GOOD LIFE

LOVING YOU

LOVE EASE

FOCUS FACTOR

TIMEOUT DREAM

FREE WALKING

WHY PRAY?

YOUR LOVE SONG

BRIEFLY METICULOUS

NOTES TO A SON

STORMY WHETHER OR NOT

BY DESIGN

THE GOOD LIFE DREAM

WINGS UNFURLING

NO PRETENSE

STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN WITH LOVE

INSOURSE ENCORE

JUST FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE

ON A CHEERY DAY

DIRGE

NEUVO WILD WEST SHOW

THE HEART’S SONG

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

STANZA I (OK YOU ASKED)

With time moving super-fast,

When are two people too old?

To be precise, the real question surmised is

When are two people too old to fall in love?

Answers bouncingly bud in this poet’s head

To these wondrous queries are the following:

"Two people are too old to fall in love if they

Feel too old to even try to hug, cuddle up or

If they believe that sincerely they are too old

To kiss or won’t feel anything at all if they do."

Put in another way, to maintain things at bay,

Truly, people are too old to fall in love if they

Can’t recall if their first kiss occurred in Spring,

In Summer, Winter, or that year of an early Fall,

When some leaves turned light-colored blue,

While others were purplish, and lavender, be-

Fore really, falling down, seemingly, tossed to

And fro for hours, before reaching the ground.

Furthermore, two people are too old to fall in

Love when they insist they need to resist and

Shun one another because each thinks of the

Other as a fuddy-duddy who lost all one’s sex

Appeal,