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    Stanzas and Stuff
    Stanzas and Stuff
    Stanzas and Stuff
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    Stanzas and Stuff

    By Joan Norman Cook

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    This book primarily aims to contemporise poetry. Th e intention is to breathe new life into this genre and make it vital, dynamic, interesting and controversial again. None of the poems are long for this reason but there is usually a punch line in the fi nal line. Th is book is about making people think, dream, laugh, talk, discuss, share and feel. Th is book is dedicated to my late mother Beryl Norman-Cook who was a gentle warrior for justice.

    Thank you for teaching me passive resistance. May you rest in the peace you could not fi nd here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateAug 16, 2013
    ISBN9781479764891
    Stanzas and Stuff
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    Joan Norman Cook

    Joan was born in Port Moresby and raised on an Anglican mission farm, near Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. She has wonderful memories of this time, and especially loved running through jungles and swimming in local rivers. She and her family travelled to Minlaton in South Australia when she was nine years old. Th is is where she fi nished her school years and trained as nurse. Th e family then moved to Esperance in Western Australia where she raised her two sons Tony and Chris after leaving a volatile relationship. Joan now resides in Perth Western Australia after a diagnosis of Parkinsons disease in 2008. Th ere has been darkness in my life but I believe that without the darkness, we would never see the stars. Joan describes herself as a born philosopher but is intent on testing that theory by attaining a degree.

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      Stanzas and Stuff - Joan Norman Cook

      Copyright © 2013 by Joan Margaret Cook.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Rev. date: 07/12/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

      1-800-455-039

      www.Xlibris.com.au

      Orders@Xlibris.com.au

      501862

      Contents

      Dedication

      Rainbow Plains

      Imagine

      Fruition

      In the Eye

      My Wildflower Country

      One Thousand Lives

      Syntactic Symmetry

      Remember Me

      The Piece Maker

      Life Jacket

      The Return

      Fighting for God

      Obvious to Me

      An adage

      Looking for Normal

      Chapter One Beginning at the End

      Chapter Two Small Chapters

      Chapter Three Coming To

      Chapter Four The Beginning

      Chapter Five Increasing Awareness

      Chapter Six Back Home

      Chapter Seven Living the Lie

      Chapter Eight Sympathy for the Devil

      Chapter Nine A Scottish Surname

      Chapter Ten My Doctor

      Chapter Eleven A Scottish Surname

      Chapter Eleven Course Language

      Chapter Twelve An Approximate Miss

      Chapter Thirteen First Date

      Chapter Fourteen Homeless

      Chapter Fifteen Cleopatra’s Camel

      Chapter Sixteen Cleaning Up

      Chapter Seventeen Vengeance Is Mine

      Epilogue

      Soldier

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my late mother Beryl Norman-Cook who was a gentle warrior for justice. Thank you for teaching me passive resistance. May you rest in the peace you could not find here.

      Rainbow Plains

      In the prelight of dawn

      Are silhouettes of a storm;

      Curious clouds are beginning to form.

      The lightning lights fires

      In the terrified skies,

      As sky mist above me scrolls by.

      The wind rolls thunder gently again,

      Sweeping my thoughts into the plain;

      I think, Isn’t it strange, even rainbows need rain.

      Imagine

      I watch silver flashes of light

      Carried on a stream,

      Heading for greener pastures,

      Which are in fact all-encompassing.

      I see lanes of perfect symmetry

      Meander through a palace of trees.

      Blossoms of almonds and fruit

      Mingle with the brackens breath.

      Strained

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