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    Songs of the Dead
    Songs of the Dead
    Songs of the Dead
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    Songs of the Dead

    By Dawn Colclasure

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    Dawn Colclasure’s dark poetry collection, Songs of the Dead (formerly named Topiary Dreams), is not only dark, but passionate. Anger, fear, hurt and betrayal run under the skin of this work and shine through especially bright in poems such as No Turning Back, Deep Within and I am Madness. Colclasure examines the dark side of human nature; murder, drug use, violence, insanity and isolation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGypsy Shadow Publishing, LLC
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781452461243
    Songs of the Dead
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    Dawn Colclasure

    Dawn Colclasure is the author of five books, among them BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How We Survive as Writing Parents and 365 TIPS FOR WRITERS: Inspiration, Writing Prompts and Beat The Block Tips to Turbo Charge Your Creativity. Her articles, essays, poems, book reviews and short stories have been published in regional and national newspapers and magazines, as well as online. She lives and writes in Oregon with her husband and children.

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      Songs of the Dead - Dawn Colclasure

      Contents

      Copyright Page

      Dedication and Acknowledgements

      Review Blurbs

      PLEASE NOTE: This volume contains more than 40 poems; We are linking to 10 of them.

      Stolen Paradise

      I’m the Only One Who Can Take You There

      Shadow Dancer

      The Night Children

      Death Shows My Pain

      Knowing You

      Masks

      Everybody Fucking Dies

      Just Leave

      The Beast Within

      About the Author

      Songs of the Dead

      A collection of dark and horror poems

      Revised and expanded

      Dawn Colclasure

      All rights reserved

      Copyright © October, 2010 by Dawn Colclasure

      Cover Art Copyright © 2010, Elizabeth Calhoun

      Gypsy Shadow Publishing

      Lockhart, TX

      www.gypsyshadow.com

      Names, characters and incidents depicted in this eBook are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of the author or the publisher.

      No part of this eBook may be reproduced or shared by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to printing, file sharing, and email, without prior written permission from Gypsy Shadow Publishing.

      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 person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ISBN: 9781452461243

      Published in the United States of America

      First eBook Edition: November 1, 2010

      Dedication

      For Allison

      Acknowledgments

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