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    Midnight Embers
    Midnight Embers
    Midnight Embers
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    Midnight Embers

    By Candice James

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    Words, when strung together like a beautiful rare necklace, are priceless, indestructible and eternal. Poetry is the grand ballroom these words live, breathe and dance in. Poetry waltzes into the heart and creates passionate rhapsodies and tender symphonies for the soul. Her playground of emotions is peppered with excitement, enchantment, love, harmony, sorrow, heartache, empathy and bereavement. Poetry is the rhythm of the universe painted onto paper with pen, ink and imagination.

    This book of sonnets is alive with emotions and vivid imagery borrowed from the many splendoured paintings that light the canyons of the heart. Sonnets are the agony and the ecstasy of the human condition and hearts in transition. These verses are the midnight embers of the soul, some sparking and bursting into flame, others the residue of a passion so deep that it still warms the heart long after the fire has died.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibros Libertad Publishing
    Release dateMar 5, 2012
    ISBN9781466118782
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      Midnight Embers - Candice James

      Midnight Embers

      Candice James

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY: Candice James on Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Other Books by Candice James:

      A Split In The Water Fiddlehead Poetry Books 1979

      Inner Heart – A Journey Silver Bow Publishing 2010

      Bridges And Clouds Silver Bow Publishing 2011

      Acknowledgements:

      I would like to thank:

      The City of New Westminster for validating my poetry and appointing me Poet Laureate of this great city.

      Michael Sullivan ( Sullivan The Poet ) of Plymouth, England for his belief in my sonnets and his constant encouragement. Without his endorsement and genuine interest in my work, this book might never have come to press.

      The late Fred Cogswell, BA, MA, PhD, OC, ONB (poet, professor, editor, publisher, literary critic) for publishing my first book (A Split In The Water 1979 Fiddlehead Poetry Books) and for believing in me from the very beginning, in the early years.

      Richard Doiron, poet, for the time he has spent, tirelessly and sometimes thanklessly, trying to tutor me to write sonnets the correct way and for having the patience to tolerate my many groundless arguments.

      Sharla Cuthberston (daughter) and Emily Cuthbertson (granddaughter) for their unwavering lifelong love and support and for allowing me the time and the space to write and follow my dreams.

      Rex Howard who has been a true inspiration to me in both my musical and writing endeavours, standing by me through thick and thin and always being "the brightest star in my blue heaven".

      Doug Davidson for inspiring me and encouraging me to start writing again after a long absence from the poetry scene.

      Ken Ader for his ongoing support at all my readings, features and events.

      Maggie Sanford, Laura Schultz, Janet Kvammen, Bari Barkley, Doreen Bruce, Margit Wagner and the late Julius Caesar Wieser; some of the people who have been a treasure and an influence on me as we have journeyed together, be it a short while or a long while.

      And last, but most certainly not least, I would like to thank Manolis Aligizakis and Libros Libertad Publishing for publishing Midnight Embers, A Book of Sonnets.

      To all the wonderful people who have crossed my path and lingered awhile on life’s highway with me, I thank you for the joy, the laughter, the smiles and the tears. You have made me who I am today.

      Candice James

      Table of Contents

      Essence

      Sonnet Fever

      You Lay Me Down

      Shadow Land

      Shadow People

      Scarlet Knife

      This Destiny

      Sudden Thunder

      Forest Phoenix

      Yesterday’s Reflections

      Hollow Man

      Stardust Dreams

      Daybreak

      Perfect Smile

      Wanton Dream

      Fate

      This Tree

      Collision

      Full Circle

      Darkness Undressing

      Naked and Needing

      Quicksilver!

      Eternal

      Kerala

      Hope

      Sun Shadows

      The Whistler

      Sundrenched

      Smooth Stone

      The Gift

      Rain Painting

      Psychosis

      Suddenly

      Death’s Shadow

      Weep Not

      Ghostly Tryst

      Philosopher’s Stone

      White

      The Fall

      Hologram

      Great Sorrow

      King Of Silver Sonnets

      Trickster

      Dark Side Of Black

      Sinners’ Sea

      New Westminster

      Interference Pattern

      Tool And Die

      Nemesis

      Giggle Damned Moment

      Burman, A Legacy

      Dimensionalization

      Distant Thunder

      Reckoning

      Tide

      Disenfranchised

      The Fool

      Mem’ry’s Boat

      Beyond

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