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    The Small Things
    The Small Things
    The Small Things
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    The Small Things

    By Ashton King

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    This is a collection of poetry written by the author, Ashton King. The collection was started with her first poem that she wrote when she was 10 years old, called Suicide. The poems touch on various topics throughout her teenage years, much of it focuses on depression, loss of innocence and the difficulties of teen-hood. However many of the poems also focus on grief, surrounding the deaths of her grandparents. Some poetry focuses on things like veterans and remembering sacrifices made on the lives of soldiers. There are poems about love and loss of love, friends and loss of friends, poems about racism and poems about standing up against bullying, poems about loving yourself just as you are, flaws and faults included. Also there is poetry that has been inspired by the newer aspects of her life when she became a mother.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAshton King
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9781310815539
    The Small Things
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    Ashton King

    I have been writing poetry since I was 10 years old. I was a very depressed teenager who was bullied alot. My writing poetry gave me a release from all the emotions that were associated with that and I used such a release often. I have experienced much in my life from love to lost love, betrayal by friends, heartwarming moments, grief over loss of my grandparents, pride in my grandfather for his work as a veteran, disgust in racism experienced by myself and my friends to the joys and wonders of motherhood. It's all written into my poetry all inspired both by my own experiences in life as well as by some of my favourite poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost and my most favourite poet of all, Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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      Book preview

      The Small Things - Ashton King

      4 – My Best Friend

      5 - My Grandfather Was a Soldier

      6 - I'll Dye My Skin Purple

      7 - 1000 Fireflies

      8 - As I Lay Me Down To Rest

      9 - Raped

      10 - Save Us

      11 - A Painful Truth

      12 - Window

      13 - Not Your Frankenstein

      14 - The Man I Love

      15 - Suicide

      16 - Always

      17 - The Small Things

      18 - A Broken Church

      19 - A Mother's Lament

      20 - Shades of Grey

      21 - Grandma

      22 - Whisper

      23 - Empty

      24 - Death's Embrace

      25 - Chaos

      26 - Love

      27 - My World

      28 - The Words I Could Not Speak

      29 - Fly

      30 - Today The Heaven's Weep

      31 - Who?

      32 - Crawl Across The Nation

      33 - Two Eyes That Never Met

      34 - King of Hearts

      35 – Little Black Stone

      36 – If The Trees Could Talk

      37 – Is It Love?

      38 – The Reality of a Miracle

      39 – Stolen Silence

      40 – Adulthood (Picklemuck)

      41 – An Artists Dilemma

      Soldier

      Gone is this soldier

      To a place where heroes dwell

      Fields of poppies

      A chorus of harps and bells

      Then God came and saw him

      He smile and said, My son.

      "Rest at ease now,

      All your pain and troubles are gone.

      You have been brave

      And lived your life well.

      You did all you could,

      For any who needed help.

      You are a good man,

      And it's time to come home.

      You've raised your family

      And your children are grown.

      I'll take you in my arms

      And lay you on a bed of cloud.

      Your life has been long.

      You should be proud.

      You are a true soldier,

      A perfect picture to paint.

      I'll raise you up high 

      And count you, a saint."

      I'll Be Yours

      When it's dark

      And I'm alone

      And you see me walking by myself

      On the side of the road

      Oh, won't you stop

      And walk

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