That’s How it Looks From Here
Poetry from the Heart
An e-Book by:
Douglas Kapin
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Poetry
Copyright © 2010 by Douglas Kapin
Email: OneOfTheChildren@Hotmail.com
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To ‘The Dreamers.’
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I am really blessed; I have many really good friends. The foremost of my friends is my wife of now thirty years, Linda. She put up with the long nights of my writing my first book, and she’s never read it, probably never will. (It’s really awful) Most of this poetry was written to and for my wife Linda when we were dating some thirty years ago. I am a very religious man, and much of the poetry fits in with that. I write Fiction and mostly Science Fiction which may touch on religion or religious theology. My fiction and Science Fiction works are therefore written outside my personal beliefs. My Cat, Gumball (Then ten, She’s gone now) would take her usual place on the table beside my keyboard and settled down for her nap. Even after the long hours on my writing, they still love me.
I haven’t published any of my poems, but I just thought you might like them. If it weren’t for my computer and Microsoft’s wonderful Windows ’95 and ‘Word’ program and spell checker, this would have taken years to write. I would have given up around page ten. I use Word 2010 and Windows 7 now.
So then I give my special thanks to:
My wife Linda for her faith in me
My cat Gumball for her patience and companionship
My friends and family (Too many to mention)
Microsoft Corp.
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Poetry is personal, very personal. It is also time and emotional condition sensitive. Sometimes it’s great and then a week later it’s not. These poems are right from my heart when I was in a tender mood. I haven’t written poetry for over 10 years now. I’m getting ready to go for it again. I guess most people would call it prose rather than poetry, much of it could be set to music.
I’ve been collecting all of my writing together and publishing it. I prefer Science Fiction but then I can write Fiction and I like my poems too.
Please enjoy then, my offering to the many people who still read instead of watching TV and listening to music all the time.
The Author:
Douglas Kapin - ‘One of the Children’
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“That’s How it Looks From Here”
Table of Contents:
Poem 1: - The Dreamer:
Poem 2: - My Family:
Poem 3: - My Father:
Poem 4: - A Flower:
Poem 5: - A Friend:
Poem 6: - I Love You oh so Much:
Poem 7: - Love:
Poem 8: - Be Mine:
Poem 9: - The New:
Poem 10: - A Poem:
Poem 11: - A Smile:
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THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS FROM HERE
YOU MAY AGREE
YOU MAY DISAGREE
YOU MAY NOT FEEL THIS WAY
BUT STILL AND ALL
WHEN IT'S ALL BEEN SAID
THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS FROM HERE
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Poem 1: - The Dreamer: - (Go to Top)
The Dreamer
Dreamer, Oh Dreamer
Of what are you dreaming
Of sugar plums and dancing flowers
Of nonsense or of fruitful dreams
Jehovah's promises my mind do fill
Of houses built for my living
Of vineyards planted for my eating
Of peace and love and serving Jah
Promised things to keep our hopes up
Of loyal friends and love that's true
A wife that's true to me and Jah
To live forever in harmony,
With all of Jah's creation
Of work rewarded with the harvest
The searching mind will find reward
As Jah reveals to us
The reasons for each thing