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    Day Dreams

    By Anton Wills-Eve

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    This short selection of poems and stories includes some poems from 'Rhymes for no Reason' which I published earlier this year. My main aim when writing poetry or short prose works is either to amuse my readers or to tell a story or point a moral. I have never been able to see the sense in writing beautiful English just for the use of language alone.
    Hence this selection includes humour, love, sadness, spiritual works bordering on prayers and tales which concentrate on how human emotions affect or are manipulated by different people.
    I must admit, however, that if some of the works appear forced or unusual I have experimented with different types of rhyming in places. For example, the format in the 'Arranging a Rendez-Vous' was in answer to a challenge that I could not do it. And some of the wistful memories evoked in the stories and verse are based on true events in my life. However, 'What turns him on' is entirely fictional and was written for a flash fiction contest about erotic experiences without using any specifically erotic words. And I am not protesting too much!
    If anyone were to ask me, however, the secret to writing a particular type of poem or story I cannot help them. With the exception of acrostics, where I write the first letters of each line vertically first and then compose the poem, I have no set way of approaching any writing. My novel James and Jacqueline, which is coming out later this year, is a classic example of someone writing a romance very close to the truth, especially in its theme and setting, but also very obviously a fictitious story. This perhaps best sums up all my work.
    But as long as you have fun thumbing through this book and reading extracts at random - please don't try and read it straight through - and wanting to re-read at least a quarter of them, then I will be happy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateDec 20, 2013
    ISBN9781493123032
    Day Dreams
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    Anton Wills-Eve

    Anton Wills-Eve has been a multi lingual correspondent for all the major news agencies, UPI, Reuters, AFP and AAP since leaving public school in London in 1960. He studied French history and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and worked mainly at sports writing and as a war correspondent retiring in 1982 following a helicopter crash. He covered conflicts in North Africa, Indo China, and N.Ireland before getting a BA in philosophy and working as a translator. He is married with two sons and lives on the Wirral Peninsula in NW England. (Cover photo taken from author’s home).

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      Day Dreams - Anton Wills-Eve

      Copyright © 2013 by Anton Wills-Eve.

      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.

      Rev. date: 11/21/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris LLC

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      Contents

      Introduction

      An Inverse Cure

      A Novel Cleansing of the Soul

      Rape

      Trees

      The Silent Bullet

      Glenda and Hugh

      Faith’s Explanation

      Wheels of Fate

      Regret Observed

      But I Can’t Swim

      Absentmindedness

      Ode to my Wife

      Panic

      Metric Immortality

      A Fortunate Failure

      Faithless Daybreak

      A Knight Of Old

      The Presents

      Whitehouse and Green Grass

      Declare your Love

      Kidnapped by the Cathedral

      Not Tonight Josephine

      Jacqueline

      The Storm Of Life And Love

      Agoraphobia

      Happiness Together

      Good God

      What Use Is A Man?

      Hear It As You Want To Understand It!

      Why Are We Here ?

      Sally

      Hope Is As Hope Does

      O Never Say That I was False Of Heart

      Judgement

      Love Eternal In Afghanistan

      Bayern Munich Four Barcelona Nil

      What Turns Him On

      A Random Kiss

      I Re-Read Your Letter

      The Boy Who Heard Too Well

      Favela—a Brazilian Trilogy

      Miasma of the Mind

      Climate Change

      The Beauty Queen’s Lament

      My First Counting Book

      The Crash

      The I of the Beholder

      Remembrance Day

      Anne

      Arranging a Rendezvous

      A Waste of Time

      Silence

      Infinity

      Obedience    (a senryu poem)

      Where’s Dane?

      The End

      Introduction

      This short selection of poems and stories includes some poems from ‘Rhymes for no Reason’ which I published earlier this year. My main aim when writing poetry or short prose works is either to amuse my readers or to tell a story or point a moral. I have never been able to see the sense in writing beautiful English just for the use of language alone.

      Hence this selection includes humour, love, sadness, spiritual works bordering on prayers and tales which concentrate on how human emotions affect or are manipulated by different people.

      I must admit, however, that if some of the works appear forced or unusual I have experimented with different types of rhyming in places. For example, the format in the ‘Arranging a Rendez-Vous’ was in answer to a challenge that I could not do it. And some of the wistful memories evoked in the stories and verse are based on true events in my life. However, ‘What turns him on’ is entirely fictional and was written for a flash fiction contest about erotic experiences without using any specifically erotic words. And I am not protesting too much!

      If anyone were to ask me, however, the secret to writing a particular type of poem or story I cannot help them. With the exception of acrostics, where I write the first letters of each line vertically first and then compose the poem, I have no set way of approaching any writing. My novel James and Jacqueline, which is coming out later this year, is a classic example of someone writing a romance very close to the truth, especially in its theme and setting, but also very obviously a fictitious story. This perhaps best sums up all my work.

      But as long as you have fun thumbing through this book and reading extracts at random—please don’t try and read it straight through—and wanting to re-read at least a quarter of them, then I will be happy.

      Enjoy!!

      Anton

      Anton Wills-Eve

      West Kirby

      Wirral

      England

      October 2013

      An Inverse Cure

      A student, in his early days,

      Could not resist the tempting ways

      That ladies of the night used daily,

      Together with parties, drink and gaily

      Lit bars which led in turn to sin,

      Committed in low lit rooms within

      The poorest quarter of the town.

      There his passion rose as he laid down.

      To satisfy his carnal needs,

      He indulged in the most immoral deeds.

      But soon his tutors realised his work

      Was declining, so gave him quite a jerk.

      To make this sinner mend his ways

      They changed his studies, so they might praise

      His academic texts and talks,

      They even bade him take long walks,

      And made him give up Greek and Latin,

      (Ending his lounging on couches of satin).

      They added theology, that he might seek

      An understanding, deep but meek,

      Of morals and how they could be applied

      If he wished to reach Heaven when he died.

      And so, happily, he learned to keep God’s laws,

      By putting Descartes before the whores.

      A Novel Cleansing of the Soul

      Forgive me father for I have sinned, it’s nine days since my last confession. I want to confess that I have committed suicide. Please be quick Father.

      Father Tobin was horrified but realised there was no time to lose. How have you done it? he asked the nineteen-year old.

      John replied. I’m a medical student, Father, and when my girlfriend left me I made up a lethal cocktail which will kill me in about two minutes now, as soon as the capsule dissolves. Believe me I really regret my sin. Please give me absolution. I don’t want to go to hell. Father! Please!

      As he pronounced the words of absolution the priest fiddled in his pocket for his mobile phone, looked about him, smiled and prayed for a miracle while picking up and blessing the glass of water he kept by him during confessions. As the despairing young penitent listened he heard Father Tobin add, And your sins will only be forgiven if you do as I say. For your penance please drink the glass of holy water I’m passing to you through the grille between us. I mean it! Drink it.

      Sweating now with fear of damnation and a death he suddenly

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