Scenes the Writer Shows: {Forty-One Places a Poem Can Go}

By MB Moshe

Scenes the Writer Shows {forty-one places a poem can go} is a collection of poems from travels and experiences. They describe situations and moments in life (mine or someone elses) that were either positive or negative. A few poems deal with teenage angst and issues of personal experience either in my own or someone elses life. The Hustler, for example, loosely mirrors my life and experience as a disabled person. It is a montage of my years living in Downtown Minneapolis, riding public transit and adapting to urban life. Word-play, meter and music used often to create images that will draw the reader into the poem. For example, in Waxing on Flames, I tried to create the image of a bonfire by a river with young scouts growing up as flames nurture them along:

We were young and at the mercy
of our means and we flung ourselves
Down upon the flames for what
we knew felt right; I bridled from
Those heated pains that boiled
and tested me; and knelt down to
Pray upon the iron grate while
Moonlight splintered trees to shake
Ripe, fierce winds Id learned to hate;

My poems travel to England, to Scotland and Wales. They go to the Mid-east and to Norway. They go from my home in Minneapolis to New York and Tennessee.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Apr 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466987654

MB Moshe

Scenes the Writer Shows goes on journeys with the author. MB Moshe (Michael P Amram) attempts to bring the exact experience to the reader. Mr. Amram relates his own experiences in this book of forty-one poems. All share a common bond of location. Either real or embellished by his own imagination, each of Amram's poems creates a sense of tangibility for the reader. Mr. Amram acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota–Duluth in 1989. Since then he has been writing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His fiction often draws from personal experiences. Many of these have been published in small, online publications. In 2006 the Loft Press published his book Would God Move a Ping-Pong Table? A cumulative Analysis of Faith and Religion. In January of 2013, he published The Orthodoxy of Arrogance with Trafford. He and his wife live near Minneapolis. They enjoy biking through the many trails in Hennepin County. He is an avid blogger and posts new writing daily. His blog is viewed by an international audience. Mr. Amram regularly attends the Loft Literary Center. He participates in a writers group known as "Open Voices." The Loft is the subject of the poem "Boondoggle Sounds."

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© Copyright 2013 MB Moshe.

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Contents

Centerfield Troubadours

Salvation for Burns

The Hustler

Dog-eared Pants Bit Her

If Gallows Spoke

Her Manipulation

Waxing on our Flames

Counting on Benches

Arawak Pastels

Her Ship’s Lull-a-bye

Virtual Tourists

Deck Party

A Faint Trace of Wonder

Burning Rocks

Civil Servants

77’s Nights

Halcion Days

A White Board had my Number

Dickensian Sublimations

Humility’s Clown

Walkin’ with Pathos

I Hid my Legs in the Sand.

Last Night’s Refrains

Boondoggle Sounds

Lüneburger Heide

Birds of Prey

Valhalla’s Eyes

Past the Sage

Ramona’s Contriteness

Ramparts They Watched

Random Acts

Somewhere Earth Ends

March Eighteenth

Tel Aviv

Tennessee

A Termite’s Mantra

Favorite Sons

We Saw Wales at Bay

The Best Farthings Spent

Lothario Disillusioned

Trickling Down Mason

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Dedicated to the richness and wonder of

The places I’ve been; to all the visions,

Sounds and textures life has provided me.

Centerfield Troubadours

We went with a purpose, to get logistics;

To apprise ourselves with cameras and

Eyes and spaces labeled Twin’s territory.

We reached for the walls that

Surround baseball’s mystic’s sons.

We would approach our grail soon;

Gate # 29 a conductor claimed.

A drunk waiting for his train to

St. Cloud asked us where he’d find a coke

To sip for beer and wait in vain;

We walked through tunnels

Sound shuttles sparsely for weekend cars

Though the shadows of downtown

Past Minnesota Twins fans’

Cozy restaurants and bars.

Like moles we emerge from

Target field’s thoroughfare blinking;

In Minneapolis’s hidden skyline

As buildings scatter their shards

of sun for next week’s game.

We repealed the light-the sun;

The buildings’ heat from descending

night—Target’s bronze statues

Stood brown and tanned like

They were real—Harmon and Kirby

Under Cal Griffith’s glowing

Grin a giant baseball glove

Held us ’til it felt they’d win; while the

Ends of the venue told us what

we’d be wiser for knowing.

Salvation for Burns

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The bus shelter knew its place;

Its times, its sounds that gave

Excelsior Boulevard a

Bolder face that welcomed us

As summer burned its heat

Slowly through its awning’s shadows

that eclipsed me.

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I’d listen to exhaust

For fumes I thought might someday be

Strewn across pavement burned with

Acetylene siren

Sounds permeating truths I