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    Fire and Stone
    Fire and Stone
    Fire and Stone
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    Fire and Stone

    By Diana Prince

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    Fire and Stone is another collection of poems by Diana Prince.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9781477268476
    Fire and Stone
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    Diana Prince

    Dr. Diana Prince has a master’s degree in English and a master’s degree in philosophy from California State University at San Diego. She also has a PhD. in psychology from United States International University.

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      Fire and Stone - Diana Prince

      © 2012 by Diana Prince, PhD. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/25/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-6848-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-6846-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-6847-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916741

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. 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.

      Contents

      The Last Leaf

      The Rabbits in the Moon

      When He Was Done With Her

      Hymn

      Snow White Years Later

      Dance Marathon

      The Sky is Silk

      Bat People

      Your Life as a Play

      The Tiger’s Dance

      I Should Die in the Fall

      Fire and Stone

      Camp in Kenya

      The Visit

      The Tombs in New Orleans

      So Much For Glamor

      Love at Seventeen

      Fish Man

      Hummingbird

      Resisting Endings

      The Risk of Love

      Spring Unannounced

      Haying Time

      Waking From the Dream

      True Identity

      Old Silk

      Aftermath

      Holding My Father’s Hand

      The Beast and the Dwarf

      Autumn

      Graveyard

      The Old Man Speaks of Love

      Your Deception

      The Last Rose

      Losing Children

      Prediction

      Morning at the Cafe

      Leda and the Swan

      Coffee Break

      Rapunzel

      For Monsignor Dillon

      Making Peace

      The End of Recess in the Schoolyard

      Temper

      Holocaust

      Night Song

      For Chuck

      Love Sonnet

      That September Day

      The Urgency of Poems

      Rosecroft Gardens

      I Met Your Lover

      He Speaks

      Dying

      For D. Browning

      To Michelangelo

      Ophelia

      Moses

      Antarctica

      Small Talk

      Reaching You

      The Nature of Things

      To Corey

      Final Things

      Forgiveness

      What the Moon Said

      The Farm at Sunset

      Love Poem

      Where Are You Going, Mister?

      When I Write My Last Poem

      Death of a Movie Star

      Breakthrough

      I Will Send You a Mermaid

      Contradiction

      Burial

      Back from Iraq

      Corey

      Sunset Cliffs

      Last Night I Saw You in a Dream

      Leaving Vermont

      An Empty Feast

      Writing You a Poem

      Changing

      When the Sun Goes

      Did He Sing That Song?

      Sonnet for Husbands

      Death Night

      Cornered

      Brave New World

      My Mother

      The Taking of Warsaw

      Aftermath

      Why She Was Not Enough

      Last Visit

      Morning in New York

      Small Sounds

      Mr. Smith at Seventy

      Beach Hunter

      The Timing of Endings

      At Capistrano Mission

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