A Dozen Dead Roses

By Jeremy Fenton

Poetry is not the kind of expression that one just decides they want to pursue. You are born with madness inside that just eats away at you both mentally and emotionally. For a poet, it can be beautiful and imaginatively introspective, and it can at times be destructive through its melancholy and divisive when your emotions are spun out of control only to feed your inner monologue in ways that beg the question of who is really writing this.

Jeremy's poetry is constantly scratching at both ends of the spectrum in his work. There isn't necessarily a clear path, but one that is constantly gauging the forks by their virtue. The few pieces that do stick to one end of an emotional divide do so with a beat and very sticky wordplay.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886541670

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A Dozen Dead Roses

Jeremy Fenton

Copyright © 2023 Jeremy Fenton

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 979-8-88654-160-1 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88654-167-0 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Giving You the Perfect Sunrise

America Constituating False Hope

Elegant Dimension

Providence

Nature's Beast

Love, Abandon Me

Something, Here, about You

Grasp What Yearns

The Frailty I Wrote

The Sweet Frailty of a Distant Heart

Moments Become Silent

Do You Ever Wonder?

Thee Unforgivable

An Ignorant Disposition When You Question Indecision

Phoenixian Rebirth

The Midlife Road Diverges

Endearment Comatose

Heartspent Hope

Generation Hope

The Comedy of Love

The World Begins to Fade

I Must Let Go

My Sweetest

So Tragic

Never to Surrender

Untitled

Absurd

Poetry

The Season Before Beauty

In Anger and Inside

Construction of Dysfunction

Regressions from Divinity

On the Beaches of Monterey, California

Despondent to Concern

The Benevolent Besieged

From Prodigy to Phalanx

Crimsoned Heart

Who Am I?

About the Author

All poems are part of the collective works of Jeremy Ryan Fenton.

Written between February 2, 1996, and November 18, 2007.

Giving You the Perfect Sunrise

A softly broken sunrise in tender delivery

Rising slowly against another evening

That slipped back into the shadows of tonight

The weight of a seamless silence awoken

Golden songbirds harmonize