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    23 Sonnets
    23 Sonnets
    23 Sonnets
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    23 Sonnets

    By Dave Malone

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    A book of contemporary love sonnets celebrating romance and nature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Malone
    Release dateApr 6, 2011
    ISBN9780966774474
    23 Sonnets
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    Dave Malone

    Dave Malone is the author of seven books of poetry, including You Know the Ones. He has also authored two novelet series and coauthored the stageplay, The Hearts of Blue Whales. His poem, "Spring Dress," was featured on Michel Martin's NPR program Tell Me More. Dave lives in West Plains, Missouri, and hosts the weekly Friday Poems series at his website, davemalone.net.

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      23 Sonnets - Dave Malone

      23 Sonnets

      Dave Malone

      Smashwords Edition

      2nd Revised Edition

      ISBN (EPUB): 978-0-9667744-7-4

      Copyright © 2011 by Dave Malone

      This book, currently out of print, was originally published by Bliss Station Publishing,

      Cabool, MO, 1999.

      Discover other titles by Dave Malone at Smashwords.com:

      Spring in Love

      Under the Sycamore

      Poems to Love and the Body

      1

      You don’t know the little things about my heart.

      I don’t know your shifting moods in spring’s season.

      Your sleepless nights, I can only guess at the reason—

      How your body lies awake with thoughts of primrose starts.

      I never knew how to plan my flowerbeds like a chart—

      To hold green life, to water and nurture, all plants pleasing.

      On a Saturday, you give me bulbs, your smile

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