A Dream Lover's Rhetoric

Elwood Gene-Mishmah

Description

A Dream Lover’s Rhetoric is a compendium of poems and poetical writing dealing with themes of the impact of dreams on love and other relationships. This lyrical work also focuses on inspiration and gratitude as well as self-determination and the importance of maintaining balance within oneself, while also showing respect for others by valuing one another through the spirit and matrix of togetherness.

Sujets

• Poetry
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 22 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781977260666
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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A Dream Lover’s Rhetoric All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2023 Elwood Gene-Mishmah v3.0
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DEDICATION
In loving memory of Carol, Andora, Marsha, Mirta, Harriet, and Kathy
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A sincere, hearty thanks and appreciation with love to each of you: Carole, Cecilia, Miriam, Loretta, Ruth, Juanita, Louise, Jacqueline, Ophelia, Brenda, Tina, Gloria, Rose, Jennifer, Deatra, Ann, Diane, Jean, Marsha, Margaret, Jessie, Lillian, Paulette, Synthia, Dorothy, Charmaine, Ludie, Sheryl, Lois, Doris, Ernestine, Grace, Lisa, Sandy, Barbara Jean, Pinky, Annie Pearl, Alethea, Janice, Dorcas, Gladys, Donna, Rochelle, Claudette, Leslie, and Lulia
Gene, the Jiver from Fort
TABLE OF CONTENTS
STANZA I (OK YOU ASKED)
STANZA II (BELIEVE)
INTERJECTION (CONCEITED)
STANZA III (HEY YOU)
STANZA IV (REFLECTIONS)
STANZA V (WE TOO BELIEVE)
STANZA VI (PROMISE TO FULFIL)
T TIME
T TIME AGAIN
L O V E LETTERS
LOVE TRAIL
SAND DANCE (RENDEZVOUS)
OVERNIGHT LOVELIGHT
GRANDPA’S FIRST BREATH OF FREEDOM AIR26
SELF REVELATION
MISSING IN REACTION
PRIMAL TOUCH
REASON TO CONFESS
MORE SAID THAN DONE
NIGHT LIFE TURNOUT
ANOTHER BIRDIE NIGHT
MERRILY, MERRY CHRISTMAS
LOVE BREEZE
CAPRICIOUS
WHAT A SHAME IT WAS
DREAM LOVE PARADIGM
ANOTHER VISIT (CAREFREE)
MISSING YOU
PRECIOUS ARTISTIC DREAM
ESCAPADE
BYE BYE BIRDIE AGAIN
BURDEN OF PROOF
TRUE PASSION
DURABLE GUIDANCE
YESSIRREE
DREAMS WITHIN A DREAM
OCCASIONALLY
STAUNCHY DREAMS
DREAMY PERSISTENCY
CHILLED OUT DREAMS
TIME RAPIDITY
AMERICA, GOOD OLE USA
MIDNIGHT SUNBEAM
REMINISCING (DREAM LOVE NOTE)
WORTHWHILE DREAMING
WHENEVER WHEN
HEARTY CHASE
MOONLIGHT BEAMS
FOR CERTAIN
SWEET DREAM COMPLETE
REMINISCENCE
TONAL HINDSIGHT
TIMELINESS
PRIME TIME DREAM
HEART SUNRISE
SHARED DREAM
LIBERTY OR PAY RENT
WB (WRITER’S BLOCK)
RIGHT NOW
WRITER’S BLOCK LESSON II
ARCHAICISM
ON PRODUCTIVITY (A BEGINNING)
JUST BE
GRATEFUL
LAST NIGHT DAYDREAM
WIND DANCING
MUCH ADO ABOUT DREAMS
TGIF
HAPPY TO SING AGAIN
A TOUCH OF LOVELINESS
FREEDOM HUG
ARE YOU FREE? BUZZ!
CASUAL PERSUASION
ON INFINITY
BRAIN DRAIN DUMP
DO A MIND DECLUTTER
STAY HOME
PRODUCTIVE INSIGHT
CAGEY
FEELING YOU
K O K O
HEART DREAM
GREEN LEAVES LULLABY
WAY WEST
CHOICE OF VOICE OR VOICE OF CHOICE?112
HURRICANE DANCING
WHAT IF IT IS FOR REAL?
TRULY
MY LOVE SONG
STORMS
THE GOOD LIFE
LOVING YOU
LOVE EASE
FOCUS FACTOR
TIMEOUT DREAM
FREE WALKING
WHY PRAY?
YOUR LOVE SONG
BRIEFLY METICULOUS
NOTES TO A SON
STORMY WHETHER OR NOT
BY DESIGN
THE GOOD LIFE DREAM
WINGS UNFURLING
NO PRETENSE
STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN WITH LOVE
INSOURSE ENCORE
JUST FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE
ON A CHEERY DAY
DIRGE
NEUVO WILD WEST SHOW
THE HEART’S SONG
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STANZA I (OK YOU ASKED)
With time moving super-fast,
When are two people too old?

To be precise, the real question surmised is
When are two people too old to fall in love?
Answers bouncingly bud in this poet’s head
To these wondrous queries are the following:

“ Two people are too old to fall in love if they
Feel too old to even try to hug, cuddle up or
If they believe that sincerely they are too old
To kiss or won’t feel anything at all if they do.”

Put in another way, to maintain things at bay,
Truly, people are too old to fall in love if they
Can’t recall if their first kiss occurred in Spring,
In Summer, Winter, or that year of an early Fall,

When some leaves turned light-colored blue,
While others were purplish, and lavender, be-
Fore really, falling down, seemingly, tossed to
And fro for hours, before reaching the ground.

Furthermore, two people are too old to fall in
Love when they insist they need to resist and
Shun one another because each thinks of the
Other as a fuddy-duddy who lost all one’s sex

Appeal, and for real, is just a gold digger’s patsy
Or someone looking for a handout, or giving no
Consideration for what it means to hang out as
Friends do, doing fun things, exchanging stories,

Sharing, reminiscing past histories as well as being
In synch with one another, whiling the time away,
Vicariously, re-reliving, majestic moments, playing
As children in their own dainty, sandboxes of life,

Years before they became a husband and /or wife,
Or answered to Mommy, Daddy, or sweet Granny.
Moreover, two people are too old to fall in love in
The first place, if they believe that the government
Issued checks are for companionship and true love
Or maintain that partnerships should always be pre-
Arranged by state law, regulated by senior citizens’
Homes, as a way to ensure that everyone is always
On the same page whenever it’s bingo or date night.

Two people are too old to fall in love when or if it’s
An ordeal to remember each other’s first names or
They can no longer remember, simply to say, “I love
You and I like you and I love liking you just the way

You are, and you are my dream that has come true,
And, truly, you are still the sweet apple of my eye.”
STANZA II (BELIEVE)
Too people are too old, really when they find it
So hard to smile or haven’t done so for a while.
Truly two people are too old to fall in love when
They find it an ordeal to laugh at a funny joke or
Laugh at all, thusly, since laughter is said to be

Good medicine, two people are too old to fall in
Love with one another if they can’t laugh at one
Another or laugh at one another’s comedic acts.
Two people are too old when they refuse to say,

“ I like you and I love you just the way you are as
Well as for always really being all that you are.”
Two people are too old if one says, “I thought I
Knew you but here you are still begging me to
Give up my vices, in the name of compatibility.”

The bottom line, however, is two people are too
Old to fall in love when they truly lack an honest

Reason or desire to, truly, fall in love in the Sam
Hell, come hell and high water in the first place!
INTERJECTION (CONCEITED)
Have you been told lately that you are beautiful,
Kind, caring, and as gentle as the little lamb that
Ole nursery rhyme, happy, bouncy girl, Mary had?
Or have you been labeled really terrible, meaning

Like superbad, thusly, your own mother relishes,
Slyly, and gloats in avoiding and disowning you?

Oh, by the way, Mr. Man, grooming over there,
Admiring your “selfies,” and your reflection in
That handheld mirror, do you recall who spoke
To you and said, “You’re the most handsome of

Them all”? Words spoken out of respect, truly
Although you have a way of turning people off.
So, in puffing up your ego, you ostracize your-
Self by focusing so much on yourself, you miss

Out on the joy of living a wholesome happy life.
How people really feel about you and it’s so sad.
TIS TRULY, YOUR BAD!
Now that you’re getting up in age, getting older,
Do you know when people are too old to fall, to
Fall in love that is? Or is it some kind of a secret?
Just thinking out loud! By the way, what say you?
STANZA III (HEY YOU)
Hey you, 1st seat, 1st row, you
Wearing a navy blue pinstriped
Suit, with red and white bowtie.
When are two people too old?
When are two people too old
To fall in or to fall out of love?

What answers spontaneously
To these two queries chime
Within as a melody? Care to
Respond? “Wait later.” Not
Ready to voice, so precisely,
Is that what you want to say?
You do seem too sensitive to
Respond at this time, there-
Fore, let me put it this way:

“ Two people are too old to fall in love
When they are too old to kiss and
Don’t feel anything for each other
Or, in fact, any blasted thing at all.”
People are too old to fall in love
When one or the other no longer
Remembers the moment they first
Fell in love that first time or when
Drinking black coffee in the morning,
They swear it tastes just like green tea,
Suggestive of course that someone is
Deprived of joy or their memory is as
As faulty as their tastebuds or nerves.
Two people are too old to fall in love
If they believe they don’t deserve each
Other or maintain that friendship really
Should be monitored according to age.

Two people are too old when they
Firmly insist that it is easy to resist
One another because each perceives
The other is too old to fall in or out
Of love in the doggone first place.

Furthermore, just to put icing on the cake,
Two people are too old to fall in love when
They can no longer or are unwilling to say,
“ I love you. I like you; I love liking you.
Or I like loving you just the way you are.”

Too people are too old to fall in love
When they find it is too hard to smile
And not having done so for a while,
They think that everything is A - OK.
STANZA IV (REFLECTIONS)
Two people are to old when they insist
Tis natural they must resist one another.

Two people are too old when they can no
Longer say “I like you; I love you
And I love lik