Mustard Marinade Poetry
By Matthew Byer
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Mustard Marinade Poetry is a collection of poems covering everything from online dating, the alphabet, love, politics, to things such as a rock ode and literature.
Matthew Byer
Matthew Harold Byer was born in Canada and grew up in the National Capital Region. In the 1990s he obtained a Bachelor of Social Science with concentration in Economics, a Diploma in Applied Information Technology with Distinction from iti Information Technology Institute and a Bachelor of Arts with concentration in Classical Civilization.Matthew has, also, been a professional artist since his high school years and worked for the Government of Canada for over twelve years while he was in Ottawa.His writing work can regularly be seen in articles for canoe.ca’s SLAM! Wrestling and the advice column ‘The Male Perspective’ for secretsofagoodgirl.com. Matthew is also a published poet.He currently resides in British Columbia, Canada.Finding My Way Through Life’s Follies is Matthew’s first novel.
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Mustard Marinade Poetry - Matthew Byer
Mustard Marinade Poetry
Written and Edited By Matthew Harold Byer
Published by Matthew Harold Byer at Smashwords.
Copyright 2013 Matthew Harold Byer
Cover Art By Matthew Harold Byer
Dedications:
Dedicated to my father, David Byer, and my brother Joshua for believing in me even when I didn’t…
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Foreword:
This collection of poetry was written over the course of many years going as far back as 1988 when I first started high school. For me poetry was not only an outlet, but also an opportunity to exercise my creative muscles and try out different approaches and ways of expressing myself. Many of these proved to be a lot of fun writing as I tried to work within and without the confines of various poetic structures. The subject matter ranges from poems about love, war, loneliness, sports, politics, to such things as the alphabet and literature. I hope you will enjoy this as much as I had writing it.
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Table of Contents:
Absolution
After moment’s Time
Alphabet Meandering
Upon the ‘morn
Art Thou there my lady?
Atmosphere
Bayonette
Be Careful
Beauty
Belonging
Blind Date
Blurring Me
Bone
Change of Season
Crumble Cake
Cooling of Age
Coppertone
Darkhold
Diner of Patience
Do not judge
Fever
Finding
First Kiss
Flower in the Girl’s Hair
Fruit & Life?
Gondola
Got to be on time
Growth
Humming to You
I’m Stupid
Inspiration
Journey
Just try one…
Legacy
Loss of Sparta
Lost Art
Lump in the throat
Makeshift
Meeting Stacey
Mindquake Slit
Modern Christmas
Morality
New Day
O’ Hallowed
Ode
Online Girl
Paper Cup
Pathway
Peace or War
Perceptions
Phoenix
Pierced
Political Idol
Quest
Questions
Quiet Sense
Singing Day
Skewed Desire
Soldiering the Shirt
Solitary
Sometime I wonder!
Strawberry Mood
Synergy & Soul
Taxes
Technique of Jabbing
Terror on that day
Tennis Mind
The Architect
The Battle of Destiny
The Blindness of Caesar
The shot
The String
Time to move on
Time to Time
Tiny Codices
To build
Toothpaste
Two minds of February Fourteenth
Typical day of the week
Unrequited
What can this be?
What do you do when you don’t want to live?
What of me?
Will
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Absolution
Someone no one wants,
Fades like worn shoe leather,
And a cold laugh in the wind.
Timed to the arc of noon each day,
Waiting for an event of proportion,
To change the path of the next winter.
How much is this thing life?
Valued by some as precious and wanted,
Tossed aside by others as if dirt.
The plank is rough with splinters and nails,
Sticking in the bare feet that tread it,
Before hopping off into the next setting.
Blinking screen with typed words,
Failing to convey the anguish,
That is felt by the person who writes.
Does one really know oneself?
Or is it a delusion of arrogance
Written with that cold laugh?
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After moment's time
Give the tithe to the grasp,
Of yesteryear remembered.
When possibility danced,
To a flake of the heart.
When your eyes met hers,
But you failed in your words.
In that moment you simply wanted,
To ask her to marry you.
A return of the moment,
No weight would be too crushing.
Your lungs would seem lifted,
And your mind to a shared future.