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    Passion and Struggle
    Passion and Struggle
    Passion and Struggle
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    Passion and Struggle

    By Harold Slade

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    Poems touching every subject.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 8, 2012
    ISBN9781477205556
    Passion and Struggle
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    Harold Slade

    As a child Harold Slade wrote poetry. While attending Purdue University, he developed three chemical products. He was drafted in World War II. He spent four years of which two years was in combat making two beachheads and involved in the Battle of Bataan and the liberation of Manila. He was sent home in a hospital ship and recuperated before working as a chemist for seven years. He went into his own chemical business and developed seventy eight products. He had two books of poetry published: "Collected Poems," and "Sounds of the Heart," the third book, "Passion and Struggle" is in the process of being published. He won several first prizes and honorable mentions entering poems in various contests. Among his other literary works are a play, a novel and short stories. At age 30, he became an artist using all media and sculpting in stone, wood and clay. At age 45, he studied clinical psychology. After his degree he returned to business

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      Passion and Struggle - Harold Slade

      Passion 

      and 

      Struggle

      Harold Slade

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      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012 by Harold Slade. 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   07/18/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0553-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0554-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0555-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012908495

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      Contents

      Twin Towers

      My Alzheimer’s Wife

      Dandelions

      A Joy Forever

      A Children’s Poem

      After Vietnam

      An Alzheimer’s Birthday

      Blair Mountain

      In Praise Of Courage

      Calendar

      Clark Botanical Garden

      Ode to a Dinosaur

      Duplicity

      On An Island

      Hieroglyphics

      Evening

      Election Day

      Faces

      The Good Fight

      The Fleecing of America

      Hiroshima Vigil

      Hunger

      Ballad

      Ann By the House

      I Call Your Name

      I Will Fight No More Forever

      I’m In Love

      If All Your Love (1944)

      It’s Difficult

      To John Keats

      In The Middle Of The Night

      Jerusalem

      Nazim Hikmet (Turkish Poet)

      Let Me Be

      Logic

      Love Ditty (1942)

      Modigliani

      The Mountain That Eats Men

      Paul Muldoon

      My Birthday (1943)

      Nothing More

      October 2002

      Oh Give Me Back

      Frosted Windows

      Protest

      The Old Men Sleep

      Col. Enrique Bermudez—Contra Leader (1980)

      On The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Of The Forum

      Poverty

      Red and Black

      Ann, My Little Red Tiger

      Requiem

      Second Spring

      She’s Unaware

      Some Thoughts of My War

      Song

      Standing Silently By

      The Buffalo

      The Collector

      The Huks (Philippines 1944)

      The Maze

      The Mountain

      The Occupiers (2003)

      The Town

      Theo’s Bench At Clark Garden

      Theodora’s Hospice

      Thorns

      Time Before Dying

      To Write A Poem

      Up the Fish Ladder

      Victor Jara

      Waiting For Test Results

      War

      Wedding Anniversary (1943)

      What It Is

      When Passion Dies

      Where Are The Flags?

      Where Is My Country?

      Who Do I Pray To?

      Woman

      The Yanomami

      Yearning for Actors

      You Know

      Birds

      Che

      Avila Salinas

      Young Feet Running

      Dedication

      I dedicate my book to my wife Ann, who typed, 

      proofread and carried the book to publication.

      Other Works:  

      Selected Poems of Harold Slade 1943-1969

      Sounds of the Heart

      Spies Together (a novel)

      Mitzi’s Dilemma (a play)

      Short Stories

      The Vanishing Hotel

      The Rape

      War at Lagos de Campos

      Twin Towers

      It was a day

      like all other days.

      Our city sparkled

      like a jewel on the finger of chance.

      Smoke rose only

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