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    Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal
    Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal
    Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal
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    Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal

    By Douglas Crotty

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    Written with personal insight, Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination and Renewal, is a collection of poems in three parts, thematically different in their thrust and emphasis, suggesting a progression from pain to positivity on the bridge between near death of self, and the resurrection of the soul.

    Introspection into the heart and mind, in an effort to become whole, exposes the vulnerability of even the strongest among us. As we question ourselves in love and in living, we validate the conflicts many of us face over and over again in our daily lives, including relationships and traumatic natural events over which we have no control.

    Douglas Crotty allows us to see through the eyeglass of the human condition, examining the very heart of emotions in our struggle for redemption, in our choices, and in relationships with ourselves and others.

    Through his conversational, emotional style, marked by sensitivity and clear imagery, he leads us to a realization of the unquestionable significance of positivity and mindfulness in ones triumph over hopelessness and the damaging realities of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 15, 2010
    ISBN9780595905591
    Sometimes We Drift: Poems of Regret, Ruination, and Renewal
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    Douglas Crotty

    Douglas M. Crotty lives in North-Central Florida, where he enjoys numerous outdoor activities and living his dream. He is presently at work on another collection of poems, in addition to developing a series of childrens books entitled, If You Look, which teach an awareness and appreciation of nature.

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      Sometimes We Drift - Douglas Crotty

      Copyright © 2010 Douglas Crotty

      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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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-9336-1 (pbk)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 3/2/2010

      To my family and the few special people in my life who truly know me.

      It's never too late to be who you might have been.

      —George Eliot

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      REGRET

      Relationships

      Historical Evidence

      Not the Same

      Wonder Lost

      Looping

      Surfactant

      Heavy Love

      The Unmaking

      Hurt Hate

      JGS

      Viaticum

      Love’s Malversation

      Now

      Hiding the File

      Off the Hook

      Me

      Monday Looming

      Apt. #

      Reprogramming

      Love’s Litter

      Day Dream

      Reminiscence

      Fille de Joie

      Substance

      A Memory in Mississippi

      The Tender Women

      Moving On

      Reconstruction

      Old Self

      Turning the Corner

      Objectives

      Just Tired

      Another Moon

      The End

      RUINATION

      New Orleans

      Refugees on Rooftops

      Where Did You Go?

      Knowing

      Beyond the Headlines

      Nothing Moved

      Battered Boats & Buttercups

      The Winds of Change

      RENEWAL

      Pausing for Lemonade

      Formula

      My Spring [time]

      Country Morning

      My Violation

      Flow

      Mind of Peace

      Patience

      Changing My Tune

      Solo

      It’s Your Time Now

      Sanctified

      Season Ticket Holder

      Making Good Choices

      Self-Resuscitation

      Driver’s Seat

      Cats Know

      Song of Paul

      Taos Mountain

      My God the Gulf

      Witness

      Sizzlin’

      Cruisin’

      It Was You

      Nonpareil

      Close

      Fragrant South

      Love You

      Perspective

      Young Goats

      Traces

      Summer’s Day Night

      Musing You

      For Bonnie & Carl: July 9, 2001

      Art of Life

      Sometimes We Drift

      Acknowledgments

      This book was made possible by many different experiences with former lifetimes, friends, acquaintances, and strangers

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