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    A Feast Of Words
    A Feast Of Words
    A Feast Of Words
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    A Feast Of Words

    By R. Taft Bentley

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    These poems and headings are the essays of a life's experiences, all expressed in a way of celebrating the essential worth of poetic verse. The reader should pause, and clear all other thoughts from the mind to metaphorically look and listen, touch, and then inhale before tasting this feast of words shared by the author with the reader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGatekeeper Press
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781642370058
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      A Feast Of Words - R. Taft Bentley

      A FEAST OF WORDS

      A FEAST OF WORDS

      R. TAFT BENTLEY

      Columbus, Ohio

      A FEAST OF WORDS

      Published by Gatekeeper Press

      2167 Stringtown Rd, Suite 109

      Columbus, OH 43123

      www.GatekeeperPress.com

      Copyright © 2016, 2017 by R. TAFT BENTLEY

      All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

      eISBN: 9781642370058

      AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY R. Taft Bentley was born in the Appalachian Mountains. Listening to the stories of customers in his father’s country store, reading Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Frost, and wandering the woods of the Pine Mountain shaped his youth. After earning a college degree in both Engineering and Law, he worked as a metallurgist, and then served as a Kentucky District Judge. Returning to the courtroom, the author presented the stories of his clients’ lives to jurors in criminal cases for more than two decades. Now in retirement, writing novels and poems are his work.

      GUIDE TO THE CONTENTS

      POEM

      WORDS

      COMMON THINGS

      AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

      WAR

      THE DOGS OF WAR

      MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION

      THE DREAMER

      FIRE AND LIGHT

      THE MISSING

      NIGHT STORM

      CAUGHT IN THE RAIN

      STOLEN

      HOUSE BESIDE THE SEA

      MEETING OF THE WATERS

      AN INN ON THE RIVER WAUGH

      MANGROVE ISLES

      WHAT TO DO

      HUMANITY

      STORY TO BE TOLD

      THE YOUNG WILL BE OLD

      ALONE

      SLEEP

      SYMMETRY

      WHY?

      STOP

      TRUTH

      RIGHT OR WRONG?

      HATE

      RUNAWAY

      GO AWAY

      A FATHER’S ADVICE

      CHILDREN

      BETRAYAL

      MOUNTAINS

      SNOW IN VIRGINIA

      STORM CLOUDS

      SOUTHWEST DESERT

      SUNLIGHT

      WATER

      TREES

      THE COLOR OF GREEN

      SPRING FLOWERS

      MOUNTAIN GARDEN

      ATLANTIC SHORE

      BENEATH

      THROWN AWAY

      QUIET

      SUMMERS ALWAYS END

      SOMEONE IS ALWAYS LEAVING

      A LIFE

      THE BURIAL

      TRUE LOVE

      THE OLDEST GAME

      THE WEDDING

      WHAT I LIKE

      SADNESS

      A SIMPLE SOLUTION

      REVOLUTION

      HEROES

      ENOUGH

      HURRY

      WHERE IS IT?

      SILENCE

      THERMODYNAMIC END

      EPILOGUE

      FOREWORD

      These poems and headings are the essays of a life’s experience, all expressed in a way of celebrating the essential worth of poetic verse. The reader should pause, and clear all other thoughts from the mind to metaphorically look and listen, touch, and then inhale before tasting this feast of words shared by the author with the reader.

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