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Tender Mercies
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • May.03.2011
  • 9781449556464

mark gives an overview of the book:

Poetry says things that cannot be said any other way. This collection looks at relationships and our place in them, from the personal to the impersonal. Technology, politics and iconography also play a role in our lives and these poems. The poems in this collection slowly seep into you, becoming richer and more meaningful as time spent with them increases. Sure to become a collection you return to again and again.
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Poetry says things that cannot be said any other way. This collection looks at relationships and our place in them, from the personal to the impersonal. Technology, politics and iconography also play a role in our lives and these poems. The poems in this collection slowly seep into you, becoming richer and more meaningful as time spent with them increases. Sure to become a collection you return to again and again.

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Tender Mercy #5


Careening at the speed

       of mockery your

photo stares at me

as you will not look at

me and I wonder

 

What is your smile about?

 

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Thanks for looking, and I do hope you enjoy the collection as much as I did making it.

About mark

I am a writer of poetry, fiction and silly things who lives in Columbia, Missouri.  I've had poetry appear in Four & Twenty,...

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