30: Poems from My First Thirty Years
30: Poems from My First Thirty Years {1975-1995}
This collection includes a series of poems written during my first thirty years, beginning at age 10 in 1975 through to the year I turned 30 in 1995. I have left them as they were written. In their simplicity, they show a stereotypical teenage and early adulthood angst, but also glimpses into a deep soul knowing that I was here, again, to reach for the promise of something more than what this strange world presented. From raging passion to the depths of a dark depression not yet understood, these are poems of coming of age in a place that was always a strange land to me.
AUTUMN ZEPHYR PRESS
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ISBN 978-1-942969-55-6
Poems from the Soul for the Soul by Dawn Richerson
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CONTENTS
Beauty of Nature ........................................................11
Insecurities .........................................................................12
Triumph ..............................................................................13
False Image in Stone ..........................................................13
Take Your Life ....................................................................14
Imagining ............................................................................14
Call to a Friend ...................................................................15
So Is My Love .....................................................................15
Indecision ...........................................................................16
The Death of Trust ............................................................16
No Easy Way Out ...............................................................17
Suffocation ..........................................................................17
I See Through You .............................................................18
What Is Loneliness? ..........................................................18
Vanity ..................................................................................19
A Captured Moment ..........................................................19
Time Passes ........................................................................20
Anticipation of Love .........................................................20
Magic Screen ......................................................................20
The Music of Love .............................................................21
Growing Up Slow ...............................................................21
Cold Realities .....................................................................22
Fear Hides Behind the Mask ............................................22
Conflicting Emotions ........................................................23
About Your Business .........................................................24
Lies .......................................................................................25
Moving Along .....................................................................25
Just an Act ...........................................................................26
Trumpet Player ..................................................................27
Fantasy ................................................................................28
A Tribute to the Smoky Mountains ................................29
Thinking of You .................................................................30
Losing You, Losing Me ......................................................31
Courage ...............................................................................31
You Never Really Left .......................................................32
Pressure ...............................................................................33
I Want to See the World ...................................................33
Glimpses of a Western Movie ..........................................34
Roses Fade, Thorns Remain .............................................35
Frozen Here ........................................................................36
Changing Seasons ..............................................................36
Sunrise / Sunset ................................................................37
Eighteen to Twenty-Two
Commitment ......................................................................41
Country Song ....................................................................42
A Love Turned Cold ..........................................................43
Unending Fires ...................................................................44
Wanting to Believe ............................................................45
Fashionable Humility ........................................................46
Just Another Day ...............................................................47
Remembrance ...................................................................48
A Study in Contrasts .........................................................49
Desire .................................................................................50
Seduction ............................................................................51
Talk to Me! ..........................................................................52
My Turn ..............................................................................53
Void ......................................................................................54
Love’s Guiding Light .........................................................54
Beyond the Point of No Return .......................................55
Empty Rooms .....................................................................55
Surprised by Sun ................................................................56
Creeping Death ..................................................................56
Open Doorways .................................................................57
Incognito .............................................................................58
Putting Out the Fire .........................................................59
Looking to Belong ..............................................................60
Revelation ...........................................................................61
Lifting Fog ...........................................................................62
Show, Then Tell .................................................................63
Lost in the Haze .................................................................64
E=mc2 ..................................................................................64
Hiding Inside ......................................................................65
20 .........................................................................................66
Day into Night into Day ....................................................67
Pain Kills .............................................................................67
Dance of Love ....................................................................68
Flames of Death .................................................................69
Missed Opportunity ..........................................................70
The Music of My Life ........................................................71
In the Shadow of Dreams .................................................72
Rhapsody ............................................................................73
Without Words ..................................................................74
Guns Blazing .......................................................................75
I Am a Flower .....................................................................76
Journey of Love ..................................................................77
The Sin of Love ..................................................................79
Missed Connections ..........................................................80
Can’t You See Me Now? ....................................................81
Uncertainty .........................................................................82
Is It Real? .............................................................................83
Wait for Me ........................................................................84
Trust Me, Let Me In ...........................................................84
One Step Closer .................................................................85
You Are ...............................................................................86
Seeds of Love ......................................................................86
A Vessel of Your Love .......................................................87
Let This Love Shine ...........................................................88
Actions Louder That Words ............................................88
Twenty-Two to Thirty
Stilted Conversation ..........................................................91
Scars of Love ......................................................................91
She Sat Alone .....................................................................92
Images of a Modern Marriage ..........................................93
Love Dying .........................................................................94
Questioning Our Love .......................................................95
Faith Reaching ....................................................................96
A Prayer for Love’s Revival ..............................................97
Immobilized .......................................................................98
Sex Crimes ..........................................................................98
Death to the Vampire ........................................................99
Longing for Night ..............................................................99
Chilling Memories ...........................................................100
Peace Offering ..................................................................101
Agony of Indecision ........................................................102
Prayer for Healing Rain ..................................................103
Portrait of a Dead Man ...................................................104
Dance of Healing .............................................................105
Waterfall Rain ..................................................................106
Fall Water Fall ..................................................................107
Song of the Waterfall ......................................................108
Absent God, Come, Heal ................................................109
Learning to Love ..............................................................110
Take Me Back to Once Upon a Time ............................111
Miracle in the Rain ..........................................................112
What Foul Monster? .......................................................113
The Experience of You ...................................................114
Turning, Waiting for Your Love ....................................115
Christmas Wish ...............................................................116
The Greatest Gift .............................................................116
A Mother’s Prayer ...........................................................117
Invasion of Night .............................................................118
Birth of Love Unspoken .................................................119
Can’t Let Go .....................................................................120
Come to Joy ......................................................................121
For THE GIRL I WAS
and the WOMAN I WOULD BE,
but most of all for me at 30,
ON THE EDGE OF ALL THINGS