Chasing After the Wind: Poetry by Valerie J. Macon

By Valerie J. Macon

Open the cover of this book and embark on a poetic journey that captures the impermanence that sculpts our world, the fragile balance between creation and decay. Witness a nursing home that succumbs to nature's embrace, feel the desert sands reclaiming an abandoned town, and explore an estate sale revealing

• Language: English
• Publisher: ValeriemaconpoetryPress
• Release date: Dec 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9780990633860

Valerie J. Macon

Valerie Macon grew up with NY and was greatly influenced by her parents' love of life and exquisite sense of humor as well as a large extended family of colorful aunts, uncles and cousins who gathered every Sunday at Grandma's row house in Queens were dinner was an all-day event with lots of loud story-telling, laughter and singing. She finds poetry everywhere, in every encounter, every conversation, and every minutia of life. Her belief is that poetry is communication between the poet and the reader; that the purpose of poetry is to reach people with a message, to cause them to look at things in a new and fresh way.

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Chasing After

The Wind

POETRY BY VALERIE J. MACON

Acknowledgements

Shelf Life 2011: Workshop

Sleeping Rough 2013: Morning News

A String of Black Pearls 2015: After Valentines Day and Harvest

The Shape of Today 2018: Estate Sale Just Picked Today

Voice and Vision 2020: 1925 Mack

Page Turner 2021: What the Squatter Left

and Garden Run Amuck

Then I considered all which my hands had done and labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and chasing after the wind and there was no profit (nothing of lasting value) under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:11

THOSE THINGS WE BUILD ON EARTH STAND ONLY AS TEMPORARY MONUMENTS TO OUR EXISTENCE.

NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY, OVER TIME, THEY SUCCUMB TO the elements

and the passage of time, DEFYING OUR EFFORTS