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    Love and Dandelions: A Life of Rhyme
    Love and Dandelions: A Life of Rhyme
    Love and Dandelions: A Life of Rhyme
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    Love and Dandelions: A Life of Rhyme

    By Chuck Lewis

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    Love and Dandelions is a collection of sixty-two original poems written by the author from 1945 to 1986. He has said "some are corny, some are good, and some are excellent," but all reflect the writer's perception of the human condition over four decades as he developed his skills as a wordsmith. A few of these efforts have been called classics, but if not all classics, they are at least sincere. They are also easy to read and understand, as opposed to the vagaries of others.

    Ranging in subject matter from the Civil War to Alaska, from Life to Death, and from Hell to New Orleans, Love and Dandelions will interest today's romantic and contemplative daydreamers. An entertaining author's self-review of each poem makes this work unique.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 13, 2004
    ISBN9780595762286
    Love and Dandelions: A Life of Rhyme
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    Chuck Lewis

    Chuck Lewis is a member of the Western Writers of America, is the author of When Good Men Ride, Two From the West, and others, and is a literary reviewer for True West magazine. He obviously is also drawn to western movies. He and his wife Pat reside in Wickenburg, Arizona.

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      Love and Dandelions - Chuck Lewis

      Love and Dandelions

      A Life of Rhyme

      Chuck Lewis

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      Love and Dandelions

      A Life of Rhyme

      All Rights Reserved © 1991, 2004 by Chuck Lewis

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      Contents

      Preface

      The Deer

      Life

      The Sigh of the Wind

      Awareness

      You Tell Me Why!

      You Are With Me

      Plumb-Bob: A Character

      Confession to a Wife

      A Cry For the Mountains

      We Live!

      I Never Knew

      When It’s Spring Again

      Wind

      Homeless Man

      Morning Memo To a Wife

      If I Can Only Find Her

      Bite the Dust

      The Tidal Wave of Age

      Hempen Rope

      You

      I Belong To Yesterday

      Scarlet Girl

      You’re My Woman

      Buz

      I Miss Your Love

      Has Anybody Seen My Cool?

      Loved and Lost

      Lonely Hours

      Love and Dandelions

      Blue Aloha

      That Man in the Moon

      What’s-her-name

      Seasons of Love

      Things That Shine

      I’m Right Where You Told Me to Go

      Christine

      In and Out of Love

      When the Blue Was Blue

      A Note Before a Hunting Trip

      What Would I Be?

      Joy (To the World)

      Fearful Heart

      Things That I Say

      Keeper of the Door

      Every Poet Needs a Poe

      The Tryst

      Darkly Down

      To Mons Veneris

      Adam’s Barbecued Rib

      The Din of Rin Tin Tin’s Din-Din in Tin

      A Blue and Gray Summer Day

      Merry Christmas to My Wife

      A Thought

      In the Dark

      My Lover’s Love

      Freedom From the Mold

      When Last I Saw Alaska

      Observation

      Happy Valentine

      A Thought To My Wife of Twenty-Eight Years

      Because of a Girl Named Marie

      Author’s Reviews

      With all my heart to my wife Patty, who chose to run with me through the bright fields of love and dandelions.

      Preface

      I’ve never heard of a rich poet. Poetry is written for fun, for self-expression, and for artistic motivations not normally conducive to commercial profit. For me, poetry offered a kind of literary challenge, especially in the use of rhyme. The restrictions of form, meter, and phonics are compounded by a narrow choice of rhyming words of appropriate meaning. The challenge of being inhibited by such disciplines and still being able to construct sensible verses to say what one wants to say, offers a certain degree of satisfaction when one attains that result.

      My attempts at poetry were sporadic over a period of about forty years. Some were written during fits of nostalgia, some were initiated as song lyrics, some prompted by romance, but, with one exception, all by unexplainable impulse and inspiration. I never consciously sat down to write a poem; it didn’t work that way with me. An entire poem or song suddenly formed in my mind and I had to immediately stop whatever I was doing and get it down on paper. The words simply materialized, and afterward I would have little memory of ever having consciously or purposely formulated such thoughts. It was as if someone else had done the writing. I knew, of course, the creation was mine and I could feel pleasure at the work, but it also allowed me to be honestly objective about it all.

      I suffer no delusions regarding my talents or the quality of these poems. Some are rather corny, some are embarrassingly maudlin, and some are silly. Some are quite good, however, and I am well pleased with them. One thing I can say about most of them is that just about anybody can understand them. They are not the ponderous vagaries of the classical bards who produced lengthy poems of such obscure meaning that no one but the poet could understand them. Some of today’s poets still write that way. Such is the stuff that makes all school children and most adults groan at the prospect of being subjected to a dose of poetry. We don’t relate to The Faerie Queene as easily as we do The Night Before Christmas.

      My own work, I hope, more closely resembles the latter. I’ve also written the words and music for a couple dozen songs, and some of the poems in this collection were originally composed as lyrics for such efforts. That was fun, too, but equally unproductive in attaining any commercial success.

      I no longer write poetry, the reason for which will become apparent to any reader who has the patience to reach the last poem in this book. I have since been encouraged by my wife to assemble these efforts and to get them into print. Upon such assembly, I realized that these poems are not only examples

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