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    Thunderhead: And Other Poems
    Thunderhead: And Other Poems
    Thunderhead: And Other Poems
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    Thunderhead: And Other Poems

    By Kenneth E. Grant

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    The author has described the poems in this book as the "songs in my heart" since they reflect the many varied experiences life has offered and the colorful variety of people he has been privileged to know. They also reflect the profound impression the natural world has left upon him. Through his poetry he seeks to share these experiences with others.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 5, 2014
    ISBN9781491852972
    Thunderhead: And Other Poems
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    Kenneth E. Grant

    Ken Grant, a retired Presbyterian minister, lives with his wife, Beverly, in Pasadena, California. Born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Glendale, he was a “movie moppet” (bit player and extra) during his teen years, then served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during World War Two. Returning afterward, he completed his education at the University of Southern California. Following seminary training, he spent nearly forty years pastoring churches in California and the Midwest, including parishes in Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, and Colorado. Ken’s interests are broad, and his sympathies wide as his poems written over many years suggest. Some reflect his experience overseas, others a brief time in the business world. Many others, however, were born of his years spent pastoring various churches and the fascinating people met along the way. Ken’s previously published books include Ponderings (1986), a collection of stories about country folk and their relationship with “The Almighty” as told by an old cowboy. The second book, Thunderhead (2014), takes its title from the first poem in the book and is followed by several subjects, then ends with a poem from the old cowboy. The present volume, From Where I Sit, embraces five sections of poetry: the product of a long life and richly varied experience of a sensitive soul who continues to write and stay very much alive in his senior years. The sketches that conclude this book are by the author, whose hobbies include sketching and painting scenes and faces.

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      Thunderhead - Kenneth E. Grant

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      © 2014 Kenneth E. Grant. 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 02/26/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-5296-5 (sc)

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      To my lovely and capable wife

      Beverly

      without whose love, encouragement and assistance these poems would

      likely have remained buried

      in my dusty file

      FOREWORD

      The poems in this book might rightly be called the songs of my heart, reflecting many varied experiences life has offered, and wonderful people I have been privileged to know. Every poem also reflects the unique emotional impact each experience has made on this admittedly sentimental soul.

      You will find three sections, each with its own emphasis of generally similar content. Section One reflects the profound impact that nature and the natural world have made on me. The first poem, Thunderhead, titles the whole collection and was written while driving with my son across Colorado, Utah and Nevada and marveling at the magnificent panorama of the western skies. Initially jotted down on the back of my paper placemat at a roadside coffee shop where we’d stopped for lunch, it languished in my file for years before resurrected and wistfully remembered, it was placed with many others in this book.

      Section Two in many ways is the most personal, reflecting among other things, the joys and sorrows of my single years in mid-life and career. It was also a time for forming beautiful friendships; many will surely last a lifetime. Some loves turn into that, after all.

      Section Three is more general, filled with poems of many kinds, reflecting many moods and many shades of meaning. Some reflect the more mature years I have now entered. I am no longer young. Senior readers will, I suspect, identify readily with the perspectives found in many poems here. You who are young, however, may be given a glimpse of how your grandpa and grandma see their world and their life in it. Be assured that it is by no means a gloomy picture! Whatever its pain or pathos, this life and the world we live in are filled with incredible, magnificent beauty, great mystery and awesome wonder. Living fully means to be as open as possible to it all, to share with our fellow travelers along the way, to help them with their load (and allow them to help us)—striving to leave this world with some positive gift of our presence, however grand or small. This book is intended to be some part of that gift.

      CONTENTS

      Section One

      Thunderhead

      Rainclouds

      Morning Comes

      The Storm

      Rushing

      The March Of The Clouds

      When It Rains

      Celebrate

      Nocturne

      First Snow

      G’night

      Cool Night

      Wonder

      Fireflies

      Night

      Morning

      Summer’s Heatin’ Up

      Rain Puddles

      Lady Bug

      The Hawk

      Niagara

      Quiet Time

      Seasons

      A Pause

      The River

      Flying Home

      Sunset

      Prayer For Tonight

      Hope

      She Wept

      Sitting Quietly

      When Then Was Now

      Section Two

      I Searched For Someone

      Far Away

      A Better Dawn

      Faith, Hope And Love

      Sorrows Past

      Somewhere

      This New Day

      Bright Angel

      Valentine

      Miss You

      Day Lost

      Today

      Beloved

      Ode To A Pause For Tea

      No Longer Vagabond

      Remember?

      Thinking

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