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    Unknown Journey: A Voyage Through Time
    Unknown Journey: A Voyage Through Time
    Unknown Journey: A Voyage Through Time
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    Unknown Journey: A Voyage Through Time

    By Allen Smuckler

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    Unknown Journey is a book of poetry with many varied conceptions; soothing, warming, and cooling on one hand, chaotic, fearful, and desolate on the other. It strides aside me on occasion in the inner counsel of evermore, healing my wounds and motivating me to be more see more do more This book of poetry progresses from youthful hopefulness, crawls through the land of discovery and spans the decades from the tumultuous 60s to the tenuous present not just for Boomers, but for all to read.

    Becky Corinne Strukamp, freelance writer and poet

    This book is like walking with you hand in hand on a journey. Thinking back being here then casting a look to the future. Allens writing will touch your heart, as it always does mine

    Lily Mae OConnor, poet and author

    Allen passes the dreams of his generation to the next souls in our line, that they may carry with them his enduring love for a life, sweet, gentle and divine.

    Tate Morgan, poet and author

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9781475981520
    Unknown Journey: A Voyage Through Time
    Author

    Allen Smuckler

    Allen Smuckler is a retired special education school teacher and guidance counselor who spent thirty-five years helping inner-city youths explore, realize, and appreciate the world around them. Allen and his wife, Jean, have three adult children and now divide their time between homes in Southbury, Connecticut, and Sarasota, Florida.

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      Unknown Journey - Allen Smuckler

      Copyright © 2013 by Allen Smuckler.

      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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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8151-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8153-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-8152-0 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013905877

      iUniverse rev. date: 04/12/2013

      Cover Photo: Everglades, FL

      February 11, 2010

      Back Cover Photo: Bonita Springs, FL

      January 16, 2010

      Contents

      Awakening (November 1, 1967-December 31, 1969)

      The Good Book

      The View

      Alone and Confused

      help (less)

      Freedom

      Good Night

      Ends with a Clatter

      Piggy

      Uh-oh!

      A Voyage Through Time

      A Girl

      Awakening

      Dawn (January 1, 1970-April 1, 1973)

      Christmas Greetings

      It Matters Little

      Parachutes

      Secreted Thoughts

      Nella

      Nella’s Back

      Entering Life’s Mirror

      The Fifteen-Minute Break

      Retreat to Virginia (August 23, 1972-September 1, 1972)

      Lowlands

      Stonewall Jackson

      Empty Warehouse

      Monticello

      Crickets on Main Street

      European Hideaway (January 4, 1973-April 1, 1973)

      Unknown Journey

      20 Minutes + 600 Pesetas

      Loneliness is a Memory

      bullseye

      The Missing Years (1974-1997)

      Rebirth (November 11, 1998-December 31, 2002)

      This Father

      Creation

      Anticipation

      She Disappeared

      Directions for Destiny’s Heartland

      The Hippy Boy

      I Declare All Love is Sublime

      Poetry Awaits (Apparently)

      Confliction (2009)

      Happiness Is…

      Me, Myself and I

      V-Day, Belated

      The Life We Used to Live

      . . . Love

      All I Got…

      Magical Moments

      Not Far Away

      Confliction

      Days of Future’s Past

      Does She Hear

      I Wept Today

      Happy Birthday with Love

      Out of the Night

      Birthday Wishes (to me)

      And I Hope

      On My Knees

      Discovery (January 20, 2010-January 30, 2011)

      Man with a Phone

      A Place in the Sand

      my soul do take

      Asea

      OB, NC

      Burnt Bottom Cookies

      The Games We Play

      Woodstock Nation

      Ophiuchus

      Check for Updates

      Make That Putt

      Discovery

      Twilight’s Discovery

      Discovering Twilight

      The Day’s Discovery

      Dusk (February 23, 2011-July 15, 2012)

      Paradise

      Bridgeport

      Get Up

      What am I?

      happiness is parasailing… except if scared like me

      Distant Blues

      Irene

      Flightless

      light

      Somewhere in Time

      There I Was (Light and Thunder)

      Nothing Better

      Sounds

      Adrift

      Alone in Thought

      Dark Corners

      Dedicated to my most prized treasures—

      Katie, Emily, and Ben, my children.

      One day at a time, this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

      —Ida Scott Taylor

      Foreword

      I have long believed that one of the best ways to get to know people is to read them, as they will often say things to their paper (keyboard) that they wouldn’t dare say to a person, particularly one whom they have as yet not met. That, plus all the awkward social interactions that convention and courtesy have imposed upon us, are thus averted. The very best scenario I can imagine is getting into the head and heart of a stranger so deeply that you desire to befriend him or her.

      This is how I have come to feel about Allen Smuckler. I first encountered him about

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