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    Daylight!
    Daylight!
    Daylight!
    Ebook121 pages17 minutes

    Daylight!

    By Tony Pfeiffer

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    About this ebook

    The sun makes things visible but we can't look directly into it. Some things are too great to understand (beauty, mystery) yet these same things enable us to understand lesser things with remarkable clarity. 

     

    The best writing does exactly that - sheds light on our own life and challenges while bringing insights to that situation. 

     

    My intention - each person to be glad they invested the time and money to read and come away with some insight to talk about and something to think about. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTony Pfeiffer
    Release dateApr 9, 2024
    ISBN9798322030492
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      Daylight! - Tony Pfeiffer

      Marie Antonia Echevarria Cordoves Pfeiffer, my dear and beautiful wife. She is my best friend, cheerleader, champion, critic, and muse. I am a better human being because of her.

      Te amo, siempre.

      Dedication

      Introduction

      The Poet’s Job

      Today’s Forecast

      Nearing Winter

      White Winter

      Death of an Icycle

      Spring #1

      Spring #2

      Spring #3

      Spring #4

      Early Bloom

      Snowman

      First Snowfall

      Bird Feeder

      Haiku #1

      Haiku #2

      Always Now

      1/4/22

      Stopping Time

      Night & Day

      Rain

      This Morning

      12/31/21

      Evening Shadow

      Dance Till Dawn

      Memory Flood

      Branching

      3/21/94

      Haiku #3

      Haiku#4

      Haiku #5

      Haiku #6

      Haiku #7

      A.M.

      5P.M.

      The Portal

      The Baton

      Thoughts

      Glimpse

      Another Kind of Listening

      Pen on Pause

      Wisdom Well

      Two Sides

      Can You Read an Echo?

      Catching Soap Bubbles

      Opulent Masses

      Is it Necessary?

      4/9/21

      12/21/21

      Big, Big Sneeze

      Now No More

      When Poetry Dances

      Paper Airplanes & Postcards

      Heaven & Earth

      Series of Thoughts #1

      Series of Thoughts #2

      Lessons

      In My Room

      ~October 15th, 1998~ The Day We Heard the News

      4/12/15

      ~Untitled~

      One Day in London

      An American’s Veiw of Paris

      The Queen’s Doorstep

      To Walk

      2 Into 1

      Billy Graham Remix

      Eye of the Storm

      Infinite Breath Now

      Un-Anal Retentive

      On Digging

      I Found This Thing

      Stars That Twinkle

      Sneaky Mystery

      We Are All Returning

      This Morning

      It’s Inevitable

      Starbucks

      3/19/21

      Glow

      Seconds

      Do You Wanna Dance?

      To Keep

      To Love

      Today’s Eyes

      Offspring

      Love Me With Your Love

      Thank You

      Love Poem #1

      Love Poem #2

      Complete

      Love in the Present Tense

      Whispers of Love #1

      Whispers of Love #2

      Whispers of Love #3

      Whispers of Love #4

      Whispers of Love #5

      Whispers

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