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    A Few More Feathers
    A Few More Feathers
    A Few More Feathers
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    A Few More Feathers

    By Peter Maxwell

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    A further selection of poems from the author of the widely read, Feathers in the Well.

    Someone once said that to write poetry and then to publish with the thought of profit was like dropping a feather down the well and waiting for the splash. Thank you to all those readers of Feathers in the Well who proved this isn’t always so. I hope you will enjoy these few more feathers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Maxwell
    Release dateFeb 19, 2014
    ISBN9781310425585
    A Few More Feathers
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    Peter Maxwell

    Poetry is like those little polished stones that you pocketed as a kid, it’s the scars you suffered along the way, the loves that strayed and those who stayed, and it’s the dust on your boots from a long long road. Here’s where my road has led me. I grew up happily as the fourth generation of my family in The Fiji Islands. I was educated, as a boarder from the age of nine, at Kings School and Kings College in Auckland New Zealand before returning to finish my schooldays at The Suva Grammar School. I lived in London for a while, in a flirtation with the stage. In Australia, I met the girl I would marry but returned to Fiji and to Western Samoa where I also lived for a while. Back in Australia I married Pamela, after she had returned to me from South Africa. We have been married now for almost half a century. We have three sons and two grandsons, in all of whom we take great pride. After a long career in advertising as copywriter, creative director, principal of two advertising agencies carrying my name and a stint as lecturer on the creative process at Bond University, I have now retired from all that and live happily with Pamela right here on the beach on the shores of Queensland’s Moreton Bay. An Australian citizen since 1983, there is a milestone facing north-east in front of our home, down by the water. It reads “Fiji. 2727kms.”

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      A Few More Feathers - Peter Maxwell

      Feathers in the Well

      A Few More Feathers 

      Copyright © PETER MAXWELL 2014

      Published at Smashwords

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      For information on getting permission for reprints and excerpts, contact peter@petermaxwell.info

      Maxwell, Peter

      A Few More Feathers

      Cover design by Michele Grey

      ebook design by Michele Grey

      Visit petermaxwell.info for further information

      A Few more Feathers

      Contents

      The walking wounded

      Where’s the victory?

      The question

      Childhood days

      Sounds

      A different drummer?

      Stop the world

      No man is an island

      Don’t go away

      Love or lust?

      Musing on mudhoppers

      The rise of the bottom line

      Letter from Samoa

      Letter to Africa

      The tango and the waltz

      Jack’s poem

      The secret poems

      The Pegasus ride

      Vale Jean Simmons

      Yesterday’s outlaws

      Life’s a runaway thing

      A perfect feather

      The Nonsense Zoo

      Dedication

      Someone once said that to write poetry and then

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