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    Cellar Door: Vol. 1
    Cellar Door: Vol. 1
    Cellar Door: Vol. 1
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    Cellar Door: Vol. 1

    By Eric R. Watts

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    Once you enter the Cellar Door it will take you on a journey through love, despair, faith and the perplexing phenomenon attached to the number eleven. The author shares some of his secrets and invites you into his deepest experiences.
    Cellar Door is truly a magnificent piece of work considering it is Eric Watts' first official poetry book. It is absolutely a must read for Laymen and poetry lovers alike. Cellar Door will keep you intrigued by the author's masterful use of mystery, haunting scenarios and the unpredictability of many of the poems. It is truly refreshing to read a piece of work that makes its path instead of following conventional wisdom as to what poetry should be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 15, 2008
    ISBN9780595601721
    Cellar Door: Vol. 1
    Author

    Eric R. Watts

    I was born in Greenpoint Brooklyn; currently residing in Bedford Stuyvesant. Cellar Door is the result of many years writing poetry. I have recited my work in numerous venues and won first place in slam competitions on some occasions. Despite a turbulent childhood I managed to attend college and earn a Bachelors degree.

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      Cellar Door - Eric R. Watts

      Copyright © 2008 by Eric Rashawn Watts

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for

      them.

      ISBN: 978-0-595-48073-9 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-60172-1 (ebk)

      This book is dedicated to my beautiful daughters.

      Trinity, who eats Cocoa Puffs and loves purple crayons,

      and my baby girl Tyla, welcome to Earth.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Broken

      1625

      Cold

      Broken Bonds

      Incarceration

      Tuesday

      Fire Drill

      A Bad Dream

      Bad Dream

      CLIP

      A Story Told

      Questions

      Lifeless

      On My Own

      Vacant

      Chapter 2 Enigma

      EXIT

      False Reality

      The Cure

      Endless Dream

      Let Go

      Dream Bird

      Lost

      THE NV1S1BLE WORLD

      Missing

      My Trinity

      Crazy

      Chapter 3 Searching

      A little while

      Other Side

      Dear Year 2004,

      Elevator

      R a d 1 a n c e

      Searching

      Timeless Love

      Vacant Heart

      Between the ones

      Paper Mate

      You

      Blind Love

      This Old Rickety Bridge

      Passing Moons

      Chapter 4 Crossing

      Many Rivers to Cross

      Change

      Commute

      Awake

      Faith

      Follow the Light

      Hold strong my friend

      Narrow Room

      Slipping Away

      Opposite of spring

      The End of August

      M1Nd C0NtR01

      ACCEPTANCE…

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to take this time out to thank the many people who helped build my character, fuel my motivation and showed me unconditional love. To my five year old daughter, who I asked the question, what is life? She replied, Life is good and fair. To my mother who taught me that only the strong survive. Thank you for pointing out the North Star, making me an astrophysicist at heart. To My Cousin Sharon, thank you for Disney World and those trips to Virginia. You instilled in me the passion to travel. To my father who taught me how to play chess and the importance of following my dreams. To Neil De Grasse Tyson who always answers my emails and don’t mind an afternoon chat about Saturn. Thank you, for being a living model of my dreams. Aunt Diane when all was at an end, you extended your hand and pulled me out of the darkness. You taught me how to be independent and most of all Love unconditionally, let’s dance. To David the only man who stepped up to the plate and became a

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