As If Behind a Waterfall: A Collection of Poems

As If Behind a Waterfall reflects on water droplets as metaphors for memories. Ampersands of Time studies the symbol for and per se. The Spirit of Christmas 2014 helps us understand the spirit that moves through a family at Christmas. Now They Just Call Him a Fool is a cowboy song. He Ain't Nobody's Cabin Boy warns us not to take the smaller man for granted. My Crepe Myrtle Sky is a summer poem. On a Night Like This is about love in a lagoon. Don't Be a Team Player reminds us that sometimes being a team player is not the best choice. Her Musical Methodist Hands is a poem about my mother. Itching As She Lay Sleeping has to do with scratching. The Ostrich and the Peckerwood is political satire. Auspicious Man is about a man that is favored with fortune. Poem For Spencer is a sad poem about one of my former Biology students. Don't be a cad is a lesson. Like a Candle Written On a Shaker Screen is inspired by a song. Brown Skin Guitarra is about my guitar. Flocculated Mudman is about a time on a drilling rig off the coast of the Congo. The City That Doesn't Honk is about Houston. Auspicious Man spotlights a lucky man. Memories and Trinkets is a sad poem. Golfing Lemurs is a long form poem about golfing with lemurs in a far away forest.

Author: Loren Smith

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 25, 2015

Number of Pages: 88 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1514714590

ISBN-13: 9781514714591