Poems For My People: Community, Volume 1

By Ovenden

This is a collection of poetry I wrote primarily in a live setting whilst doing typewriter poetry busking in public. Every poem is written for a specific individual as requested by the recipient of the poem. Some poems were written as gifts requested for a loved one.

Dear Reader,

As I perch with poor posture in a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Molly Ovenden Creativity LLC
• Release date: Jun 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9798986053455

Ovenden

Molly Ann Ovenden is a British American originally from Minnesota. From 2010 to 2017, she lived in West Yorkshire, England, with her bearded furniture-making Englishman husband, Max. They moved to Northern Minnesota in 2017. She is a creative writing coach who helps women become the writers they've dreamed of being through courses, community, and coaching. When Molly's not writing or coaching, she's reading, laughing, smiling, eating, drinking tea and coffee, painting, daydreaming, training for a marathon, doing yoga, or going for circular walks. She hopes and prays you really love her books and share them with all of your friends.

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Poems For My People: Community, Volume 1

Molly Ovenden

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Molly Ovenden Creativity, LLC

Poems for My People: Community, Volume 1

Copyright © 2023 Molly Ovenden

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Contents

With Gratitude

An Extra Special Thank You

What to Expect: How to Read This Collection

What is typewriter poetry busking?

On Errors...

Top Tips for Reading This Collection of Poetry

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Letter to the Reader

1. The YES Path

2. In the Autumn

3. Surrounded by Love

4. My heart is for You

5. There’s One!

6. Free Now!

7. Memories of My Life

8. I’m Gonna!

9. Finding the Way

10. Oh, the roses!

11. Oh, You Kids!

12. For Chesney

13. My Declaration: You Are With Me

14. Ode to Chelsie

15. To Our Adventure

16. Chasing Beauty

17. For the Friendship

18. delight, sings my soul!

19. Held In Between

20. More

21. My Heart is Outside

22. Technology, Lakes, Trees: It’s You and Me to Please

23. When I Look at You

24. A Bouquet of love for you, my Wife

25. Oh, to Rejoice!

26. My Heart Is For You

27. Those Last Ten Feet

28. The Legacy

29. It’s Nearly Christmas!

30. The Weight of a Freight Train

31. From Another Planet: Here is Home

32. For Rose

33. Our Show’s Not Online

34. Ride On!

35. What does it mean to be a writer?!

36. To Remember the Love

37. In the Winter I Wonder

38. Gratitude Brings

39. What is Today?

40. To Our Visitor

41. All in Celebration

42. Everything Wind

43. Tales of Goofy & Heather

44. Memories of Us & You

45. Hopes for You

46. Flowing to Slowing

47. My Father’s Heart

48. These Mountains We’ll Climb

49. Heart Whispers

50. Christmas So Grand

51. Urgent Plea! Thanks for purchasing my book!

52. I delight in my darling

53. Let it All Flow

54. Sunlight: The Sunshine That Carries Us

55. Cilantro and Parsley

56. Butterfly Whispers

57. Iyla & Me

58. Take This Cup

59. The Babies, The Tattoos, The Bulldogs

60. Thoughts in the Stars

61. To Future Adventure!

62. Sporting Life with a Smile

63. Who You Are

64. New Cabin, Old Friend

65. Simple Love

66. For the Guitarist

67. Breathe in

68. Your Strength, Your Pain

69. This Child’s Heart in Snow

70. Pieces of Peace

71. I Love Love Love

72. Daily Exhale

73. Let us…Together

74. Gifts from Seed

75. To Thank You For All You’ve Done

76. To Jesus: My Forever Friend

77. I Trust You Today

78. Enduring Love, Friendship, and Strength

79. My Sister, My Friend

80. It’s For Joy I Sing!

81. Swinging in Solitude

82. Alone: Fully Alive

83. Filtered Through Green

84. The Cold Lake’s Brew

85. A Pie Empire

86. A Grand Slam for Life

87. Rare Notes of Red

88. Dancing to the Beach

89. A 12oz 4 Shot English Toffee Latte

90. Happy Indoors Outdoors

91. That Pink Bike

92. That Style

93. Heartbeats

94. "It's the Lift!

95. Downhill: Togethers Are Sweet, Sugary Thrills

96. Furry Family

97. Grateful Harvester

98. Grace By the Lake

99. Belief to Do It

100. The Love of Dance

101. Lake Water Heats to Freezes

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About the Author

With Gratitude

Special Thank You to Julia McGuiness, Melissa Roberts Weidman, Coelti, and Kay Kro who’ve inspired me and who gave me courage to pursue typewriter poetry busking–something I’d wanted to do for over 20 years, but never felt I was allowed to do.

Special Thank You to London Writers Salon and founders Matt & Parul who have empowered the possibility of my connecting and learning to be audacious to write and share and encounter amazing writers, many of whom write and share their poems publicly.

Special Thank You to my Heavenly Father who’s healed my heart from past hurts from people who cut me down with their words and helped me believe that it’s wrong to want to have success from writing. To my friend and companion Jesus who sits with me in coffee shops, living rooms, online Zoom rooms, cideries, and other random places where I write poems for my people–for Our People. To my guide and counselor Holy Spirit who leads me to the people and places of peace where I can share my delight in words as gifts to others.

Special Thank You to Josh and Cami Gazelka, owners of Woodlore Cider in Brainerd, Minnesota. To Barry Schull, Compassion Ministries Director of the Fruit of the Vine Food Shelf in Duluth, Minnesota. To Shannon Cornelius, owner of Yellow Bike Coffee in Duluth, Minnesota.