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    Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet
    Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet
    Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet
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    Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet

    By Larry F Nigh

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    This premier collection of poems by a new author are in various formats. They include both Italian and English sonnets, groups of haikus, abecedarian poems, traditional poems, and blank and free verse. Everyone can find something to their taste if they enjoy poetry. The subjects of the poems are numerous and fulfilling. The author is certain that the public will enjoy discovering a new poet. By all means have fun reading the works of this fresh, new voice in the poetry world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLarry F Nigh
    Release dateOct 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301883660
    Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet
    Author

    Larry F Nigh

    Born: Mulberry, Arkansas. Lived: Arkansas, California, Missouri, Kansas. Military Service: U.S.Navy, 1969-1973; Kansas Army National Guard, 1996-2005. Work Experience: Computer Operator, Computer Operations Supervisor, Census Bureau Geographic Specialist. Married: From 1982-Present. Family: Two sisters, three brothers.

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      Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet - Larry F Nigh

      Tastes Bitter, Tastes Sweet

      by Larry F Nigh

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Larry F Nigh

      Cover Photograph

      Copyright 2013 Paula H Nigh

      Smashwords Edition,

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter One -The Beginnings

      Chapter Two -December 2012

      Chapter Three -January 2013

      Chapter Four -February 2013

      Chapter Five -March 2013

      Chapter Six -April 2013

      Chapter Seven -May 2013

      Chapter Eight -June 2013

      Chapter Nine -July 2013

      Chapter Ten -August 2013

      Chapter One - The Beginnings

      The Eternal Vow We Made

      Though time persists and passes by

      The joy we share will never die.

      Your heart is mine I know by vow

      I never will release you now.

      Through all the years we ever grow

      More close, and love and learn to know

      It won't be lost in time, but live

      And win us both the chance to give

      Us all that's good, to work and strive,

      Enough to earn the right to thrive.

      Our hearts in lightness will persist,

      In darkness we will still resist

      Adversity, lost time as one,

      Our thoughts entwined until we're done.

      Our love preserved, our hearts transformed,

      Our hearts conjoined, our souls reborn.

      In The Beginning Was The Word

      In the beginning was the word, and the word was love.

      We shadowed each other and joined our hearts above.

      The least bit of loss was forgotten in the formulation

      Of our great and withstanding emulation

      Of the famous lovers in their adulation

      Of the first and final simulation

      That would be the joyous solution

      For the mortals in their simple equation.

      This alone was the final derivation,

      To make and be and try the notion

      Of simply loving and allowing the motion

      Of two hearts combining in true devotion.

      So we as two would be as one

      And would become a summer sun

      Shining down upon the world

      Like life and death entwined, unfurled.

      Two hearts together, beating, timing

      Their beats together just as rhyming

      Poets time their words to mark

      The time of lovers' beating hearts.

      We shall and ever shall be one

      Until the universe is done.

      Souls entwined together forever

      Hearts as one forsaken never.

      This cannot be the end of it

      We must be a lamp to be lit.

      The universe is not to be

      A trifling useless entity.

      What care we for the futile fight

      If we are destined for the night

      No other plan could be of sense

      But that we spend our lives

      As one, together tandem fates

      Two people meant as man and wife

      Forever one and two for life.

      You Are All Of This And More

      You are the mist in the morning

      As I slowly awake and rise up. 

      You are the face in my dreaming

      Starting, beginning each day.

      You are the smell of my coffee

      Sensed and experienced anew.

      You are the reason for being

      All I can really become.

      You are my heart and my soulmate

      Waiting to love, and to bless me.

      What would I have without your love,

      Nothing that gives me much passion.

      What would you give to be with me,

      All that you have and you hold.

      We are still lost in this Kismet,

      Love is our Fate and our hope.

      We can expect to be wedded

      Together as one in the world.

      Forever united we live for

      Eternity, boundless, complete.

      'Til we meet.

      For This We Were Meant

      Once in a lifetime you find that you may

      Have entered the realm of beauty's caress

      Where dreams of tomorrow have happened today.

      The losing of one place won't be amiss,

      She offers a sharing, a path and a way,

      An entree, a welcoming hug

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