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    Ten Tall Trees: Poems
    Ten Tall Trees: Poems
    Ten Tall Trees: Poems
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    Ten Tall Trees: Poems

    By Kevin Patrick

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    Inspired by his closest relationships, nature, and spirit, author Kevin Patrick wrote all of the poems in this collection in the beautiful and natural surroundings from Hope to Vancouver and throughout the picturesque Southern Gulf Islands.

    In Ten Tall Trees, Patrick offers a free-verse lyrical narrative that tells a story of lucid spiritual exploration and awakening of consciousness witnessed by the beauty of the changing seasons. In the title poem, Ten Tall Trees, he observes natures quiet resilience during the cold winter months. The selection Season of Birthing celebrates the uplifting energy of new life in springtime. Poems such as Minuet, Minoru Park, and Mooji address autumn and Patricks burgeoning spiritual awareness together with his observations of modern pop culture.

    With a strong voice, perceptive observations, language play, and an affinity for the natural world, Patrick offers a poetry collection that gives insight into the balance of spirit with the human condition and the beauty of form merged with formlessness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 9, 2015
    ISBN9781491760284
    Ten Tall Trees: Poems

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      Ten Tall Trees - Kevin Patrick

      Copyright © 2015 Kevin Patrick.

      Email address: kevinpatrickpoet@gmail.com

      Twitter account: @kpatrickpoet

      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: 978-1-4917-6026-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-6027-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-6028-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015902083

      iUniverse rev. date: 03/05/2015

      Contents

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Part I

      1.   Pen on Paper

      2.   I AM

      3.   The Song

      4.   We’ve Not Known Love

      5.   Old Man Reading There

      6.   So It Seemed

      7.   I Love You, Drew

      8.   Love the Ocean

      Part II

      9.    Behind Snow-Covered Mountains

      10.   Seed Below

      11.   Season of Birthing

      12.   Minoru Park

      13.   Fly, Butterfly

      14.   We Two Were Sunflowers

      15.   Minuet

      16.   Ten Tall Trees

      Part III

      17.   Deeper Meaning

      18.   Old Park Bench

      19.   Stalemate

      20.   In Love and War

      21.   Boundary Bay Love

      22.   Mooji

      23.   Elements

      24.   Epiphany

      25.   Ravenspeak

      26.   Topaz Musings

      27.   Into the Divine

      28.   June

      29.   May Day

      30.   I Still Tie My Own Shoelaces

      Scarlet Vermilion: A Trilogy of Sonnets

      31.   Red

      32.   Orange

      33.   Maroon

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      With much love and gratitude,

      I dedicate this book to Katrine Leighland,

      an angel in human form. Her continual love,

      encouraging words, and spiritual insight

      made this book possible.

      Preface

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