30: Poems from My First Thirty Years

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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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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

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