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    The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23)
    The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23)
    The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23)
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    The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23)

    By Dustin M. Weber

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    Before author Dustin M. Weber decided to become a novelist, he was a poet, and even today, he contributes his love of writing in part to his poetry. This book is testament to that in that it includes seventy-three poems that he had composed over the course of eight years during his youth. Ranging in emotional content from sorrow and anger to elation and quiet contemplation and covering such topics as love, life, and American culture, this anthology is sure to have a poem for every reader, regardless of mood or mindset.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDustin M. Weber
    Release dateApr 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476134857
    The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23)
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    Dustin M. Weber

    I'm a former English teacher from northeastern Illinois who FINALLY jumped ship with the whole e-book publishing scene in March 2012. Fiction is my specialty (although I return to my roots as a poet every now and then as well), and my interests are diverse. I aim not only to entertain my readers, but also to inspire them from time to time through my writing. Feel free to check my work here on Smashwords.com to find out for yourself.

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      The Sun Shan't Set on Me! Poems from My Younger Days (Ages 16 to 23) - Dustin M. Weber

      I love writing, pure and simple. Ever since I was a little boy, writing has always been one of my outs in life, right alongside reading, drawing, and playing video games. All four of these activities were a way for me to escape the hassles of the real world for a brief moment in time—to take a break from what was going on in my life and throughout the world around me as a whole and venture into one realm or another where my own imagination reigned supreme. That being said, writing has always been, without question, my personal favorite amongst these four avenues, for not only do I naturally have more control over the content of what I write than I do that of what I read, but writing has always come just a bit more naturally to me than drawing has—even though I used to be a pretty decent artist in my own right back in the day—especially in terms of teaching me the value of balancing style with substance. Not only that, but unlike any video game, my work as a writer forces my mind to create my own sights, sounds, and overall story to go by rather than simply expecting me to accept that which I see on my TV screen or hear through my speakers, and on account of that alone, I feel that much greater a sense of accomplishment from writing a story, essay, or poem than I ever could from completing even the most difficult video game I’ve ever played. In short, my love for writing used to reward me in so many ways during my youth, and that love has only grown stronger since with each passing day. My writing, to put it quite frankly, is the very essence of who and what I am. It has become the very means by which I make sense of myself and the world around me with the greatest possible degree of clarity, thoroughness, and intensity, no matter which form of writing I use to express that which is on my mind. As a result, for me to disown anything I write would be, in its own way, a great disservice to myself.

      These days, I prefer to focus on the realm of fiction and on writing the best novel I possibly can—one that will captivate the collective imagination of my intended audience and help me firmly establish my place in the literary world. However, there once was a time in my life where I was big on poetry, and why not? Poems are more often than not short, sweet, and to the point and regularly contain every bit as much meaning and insight as any essay or multi-chapter book. Even these days, given the proper inspiration and a solid poetic structure—sonnet, haiku, haiku chain, standard couplet-based, freestyle, etc.—upon which to base my work, I can usually whip up a poem in mere minutes, which is nothing compared to the week or two it often takes me to construct a single chapter for any of my novels. Needless to say, even though it wouldn’t have killed me to try my hand at writing my first novel back when I was in high school or college, I still found myself more apt to compose a new poem based on whatever topic chanced to pop into my head at any given moment. This particular book is the net result of my many poetic ventures from that time: a collection of seventy-three poems that spans the gamut of emotions from grief to rage to reserved inquisitiveness to sheer elation and covers a wide array of topics from typical teenage angst and disdain at the incessant stupidity of mainstream society to utter, fantastic whimsy and reflections of childhood lost. I’ve also managed to vary the topics of my compositions to include both the mundane (e.g., television programming) and the abstract (e.g., human nature), the usual (e.g., freedom of speech) to the atypical (e.g., video games). Heck, I’ve even managed to crank out a few love poems in my day that have found their way into this anthology. To summarize, there’s sure to be at least one poem amongst the ones I’ve included here that would appeal to someone of any given mindset.

      On that note, I encourage you to carry on reading and enjoy the work I have produced from my younger days. Before you do, however, I just want to make it clear that because of my heavily pronounced individuality back then, I did not always witness things from the same angle as most other people—an aspect about myself that still holds true with me even today. Thankfully, I have neglected to include any poetry that might be directly connected with any specific negative and highly publicized event from the time period within which these poems were written (1998 to 2005), so hopefully my work here doesn’t strike too sensitive a nerve with certain readers. Otherwise, feel free to read the poems I have included in this book in any order you wish, as I’ve arranged them in alphabetical order only and not necessarily by date, theme, or any other category one could think of. All in all, I hope you enjoy my work, and please remember this: When you yourself have something to say about anything, but you somehow can’t speak your mind aloud, don’t be afraid to do so through writing. Your voice matters, after all, so long as your words don’t harm or malign others, and for anyone to tell you otherwise is wrong.

      Don’t let other people stifle your message to the world. Don’t let the sun set on you.

      Thank you.

      ---Dustin M. Weber

      A Change in the Air

      9/16/01

      I gazed at the mirror this morning to see

      Empty space looking back at me.

      What have I done as of yet to my life

      To overcome the torment, the chaos,

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