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    A Silence of Echoes
    A Silence of Echoes
    A Silence of Echoes
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    A Silence of Echoes

    By Candice James

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    A collection of the author's favourite poems over the years. Most of the poems are previously unplublished,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateOct 24, 2016
    ISBN9781927616338
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      A Silence of Echoes - Candice James

      A Silence of Echoes

      By Candice James

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      unlove's the heavenless hell

      and homeless home ..

      lovers alone wear sunlight.

      ~ e. e. cummings

      To love and be loved

      is to feel the sun from both sides.

      ~ David Viscott

      I no longer cared about survival –

      I merely loved.~ Loren Eiseley

      OTHER BOOKS BY CANDICE JAMES

      A Split In The Water – Fiddlehead 1979

      Inner Heart, A Journey – Silver Bow 2010

      Bridges And Clouds – Silver Bow 2011

      Midnight Embers, A Book of Sonnets – Libros Libertad 2012

      Shorelines, A Book of Villanelles – Silver Bow 2013

      Ekphrasticism – Painted Words – Silver Bow 2013

      Purple Haze – Libros Libertad 2014

      Title: A SILENCE OF ECHOES

      Author: Candice James

      Cover Art: Painting A Silence of Echoes © 2013 by Candice James

      Cover Design: Candice James

      Layout Design: Candice James

      © 2014 Silver Bow Publishing

      All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate

      this book or any portions thereof, in any form

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      First Edition

      Ebook ISBN 978-1-927616-33-8

      PRINT ISBN 978-1-927616-13-0

      CIP 1396581791-858

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      James, Candice, 1948-, author A silence of echoes / Candice James.

      Poems. ISBN 978-1-927616-13-0 (pbk.)

      Title.

      PS8569.A429S55 2014 C811'.54 C2014-902404-5

      © 2014 Silver Bow Publishing

      ISBN 978-1-927616-13-0

      Acknowledgement

      I cannot publish a book of poetry without

      continuing to thank my mentor, Fred Cogswell;

      the first person to publish a book of my poetry A Split In The Water (Fiddlehead Poetry Books 1979). If it weren’t for Fred believing in me, this book, and many others before it, simply would not be ~ Candice James

      Early Morning Haunting

      Through the foggy lens

      Of an early morning haunting,

      The ghosts of summer,

      Windblown voices

      And hazy dreams

      Still linger

      In the blue shadows

      Of a dying star.

      A pearl scarf of frost glistens

      Beneath a red rising Sun.

      A lone gull cries to the wind

      Leaving its imprint

      In the thick atmosphere

      Of a muted October sky.

      My footsteps crunch and crackle

      On a scatter of pebbles and leaves

      That whisper secrets

      Into the outstretched palms

      Of this early morning haunting.

      I watch the sun rise:

      Ash; to ember; to flame.

      I listen to the wind:

      Silence; to whispers; to voices.

      I’m alone, but not alone.

      I walk with ghosts,

      In the blue shadows

      Of this early morning haunting,

      Haunted.

      The Depth Of The Dance

      The fading sun on the sand dissolves

      Into moon-drops on the water.

      Waves sparkle and dance with diamonds.

      Memories ebb and flow.

      I recall

      The young days of sunbeams and moonglow;

      You and I

      Casually playing with time and tide

      As if they could never change;

      As if we would never change.

      When we walked our beach of dreams,

      Alive with the

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