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    The Heart: After. 20 Poems
    The Heart: After. 20 Poems
    The Heart: After. 20 Poems
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    The Heart: After. 20 Poems

    By Bill Fester

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    In English and Chinese. A journey begins and a journey ends, and a lifetime is lived in between. Awaiting you are twenty glimpses of life ranging from poignant, to thought provoking, to hopeful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Fester
    Release dateJan 25, 2019
    ISBN9781386360292
    The Heart: After. 20 Poems
    Author

    Bill Fester

    Bill Fester hales from Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he grew up on a working family farm. Following college, he moved to Houston, Texas where he developed a personnel staffing business. He dabbles in such hobbies as antique and classic cars, penmaking, baking, and computer-generated art. This is Bill’s first book of poetry.

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      Book preview

      The Heart - Bill Fester

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      The Heart: After

      心脏：之后

      20 Poems

      20首诗歌

      by Bill Fester

      Contents

      You Are Coffee to Me

      你是我的咖啡

      Two Rivers Flow Together

      两条一起流动的河流

      There is Hope in Her Heart

      她心中充满了希望

      Our Lives

      我们的生活

      Anew

      重生

      In the Night

      在夜晚

      The Great Adventure (Is Over)

      大冒险（终结）

      It Wasn’t You

      那不是你

      What We Watch

      我们看到什么

      I Am Your Ladder

      我是你的梯子

      Journey

      旅程

      When I Am Gone

      当我走了

      Knowing You

      认识你

      If I Could

      如果我能

      What You Are to Me

      妳意味着什么

      The Great Migration

      大迁徙

      The Most Wonderful Woman

      最美妙的女人

      I Saw You

      当我看到你时

      What We Might Never Know

      也许我们永远不知道

      The Solution

      解决方案

      You Are Coffee to Me

      You are coffee to me.

      Your rich dark secret elixir brings

      Candid freedom for my words,

      Heat to my thoughts,

      A push to my lagging soul.

      You are coffee to me.

      The gray of my life before me

      Blooms vibrant with your sweetness,

      Colors come awake with you.

      I

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