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    Stone Cold Truth: Rocky Poetic Platitudes
    Stone Cold Truth: Rocky Poetic Platitudes
    Stone Cold Truth: Rocky Poetic Platitudes
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    Stone Cold Truth: Rocky Poetic Platitudes

    By Doug Montgomery

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    An eclectic collection of varied prose and poetry in which human reality seems to be quite comfortably interconnected with the elemental fact of stone being around us all of the time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing
    Release dateApr 19, 2013
    ISBN9781622490769
    Stone Cold Truth: Rocky Poetic Platitudes

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      Stone Cold Truth - Doug Montgomery

      FOREWORD

      Many great authors and philosophers through the ages have incorporated the attributes of rocks in their writings. Their words resonate the beauty and immortality from sand to mountains and often leave the reader with a feeling of peace and elegance. I wanted to try that too. This is my beginner's attempt toward that aspiration.

      Doug

      For

      my wife, Betty, my own rock,

      my family,

      and

      for everyone else who has made me what I am and even for those who have been a stone in my shoe or a rock in my rucksack.

      A poem comes knocking on your door naked. It is you who must dress it and nourish it.

      --- Douglas Montgomery

      M E N D I N G F E N C E

      Through the winter betwixt the snows

      The gnomes have been at their trouble

      My spring field is full of stones anew

      That I must be rid of before I shovel.

      A pyre of rock in the middle of my lot

      Would be, as I see, of no good to me.

      If I cast them to my neighbors’ plot,

      A war would start which may not cease.

      Therefore, I neatly lay them line to line

      Edge on edge between him and me

      Fences made of stone, coarse and fine,

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