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    Poems Every Which Way

    By Ted Reynolds

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    This book starts with the concentrated essences of haiku, and continues with quatrains, sonnets, free verse, and patterns for which there is no name as yet . . . and a single limerick. Many of my poems were written after I agreed to write a poem on any requested topic for a year, which led to some very peculiar results. Some sprang from an ice storm, a quarrel with my daughter, the death of a friend. Here you will find poems for children, what happens when murder is outlawed, "the confessions of a moderate," a seditious Thanksgiving grace, a sonnet on how to write a sonnet, over-sympathetic angels, a silent Quaker meeting in iambic pentameter, Brobdingragian and Lilliputian love poems, and a post-Dantean Purgatory. I have not submitted my poetry for publication before. It was written for myself, family, and friends. Now that I am 75, I thought I might see if anyone else liked it. If there’s anything different about my poetry, it might be that I have refused to limit myself to any particular style, theme, or rule. Welcome to my world. There should be much here to raise laughter, a sigh, or an eyebrow.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTed Reynolds
    Release dateDec 29, 2013
    ISBN9781311572370
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    Poems Every Which Way
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    Ted Reynolds

    I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a teen-age daughter and son (with all the admiration and despair that entails) and one fat cat and one sweet cat. And a perfectly satisfactory wife. They all tolerate me. I have a scruffy beard, a bad right foot, and much too easygoing a nature for my own good. It wasn't always so leisurely. I've climbed a twelve-thousand-foot-high mountain twice. I navigated a small sailboat around the world, and saw Bora-Bora, Bali, and the Galapagos before they got globalized. I swam in 6 Seas, trod 50 oceanic islands, went through several typhoons. I was pulled over by the Coast Guard for trespass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I got questioned by the Stasi on the wrong side of The Wall, and then crossed the Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railroad on a protest mission. I’ve been charged by a rhinoceros and bitten by a badger. Then I turned 25 and had to settle down and get a job. In my spare time I stubbornly wrote stories about cruising the galaxy and a novel about killing God but all that paid zilch. Still, I've somehow earned my living, seen amazing sunrises and sunsets, known amazing people, and raised amazing kids. Lately I retired and things got dull, so I’m writing again. Wish me luck.

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