Salutations of Soulitude

By Patricia Youngs

This is a collection of poetry from first-time author Patricia Youngs. Let her words touch your soul as s he talks about society, family, and relationships in this soulful work of art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Oct 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490712284

Patricia Youngs

Patricia is a nature and animal lover, a San Francisco native who resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she received a degree in elementary education, with a focus in language arts. She lives with her two terrier mixes and competes in dog agility around the Southwest. She loves to write poetry and stories that touch on understanding our purpose in the world. She loves the arts and considers it to be an integral part of living a full life. She believes creativity comes from the soul and creative writing is an important branch that reaches out to people who are looking to connect to humanity.

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Contents

First Words

Cemetery Bunny

Opilies

Digging Dirt

Sick

Subconscious Seeds

Half Empty Glass Half Full, Acrostic

Flip Side

No Tomorrow

Guillotine Ghost

Pumpkin Head

Sleeping In Overdrive

Will Power

Slices Of Bread Without Butter

Note Left Behind

Mountain Truth Hurts

Spin Cycle

U - 109

Ode To Two Chairs

Tilling The Brain Waves

The State Of Sleeping

Family Jewels

The Milk Man’s Daughter

Marble Eyes See Nothing

Love Story

Mosaic Stars

Fat Girl

Happy Mother’s Day

Staining The Sheets

Clips Of You

Who’s He Fooling?

Hat On A Hot Head

Population Overgrowth

Corner Store Dog

Impromptu Rehearsal

Flip And Flop

Dear Grandpa (I’ll Never Tell)

Scratch Ticket

Wasted Wax Offerings

Freedom Cell

Lava Monster

Dinner Bell

One Serving Recommended Daily

Haiku

Tanka

Recipe For Snowflake Cake

Unrequited Love

Truth

Sovereign Souvenirs

Instructions For My Son’s Art Project

Cup Of Joe

Untitled 1

Extra! Extra! Pope Sells Out

Brown Colored Crayons

Deaf And Blind

Where Charlie Was Born

Poised Sugar For Sale

Williamesque Skipping Down Memory Lane With That Story From Oh, Didn’t Know

Polar Bear With A Heart-Shaped Brain

Devil S Muse

Getting To The World Race On Time

Lady Duck And Mister Goose

Little Dog On A Full Moon

All Caterpillars Are Free

Girls Who Talk To Too Much

Mother At Midnight

Of A Bird I Never Met

Perennial Sketches Of Me, Pantoum

Flower Shop, Dialogue

My Cousin It

Little Stream Of Consciousness From A Greatly Delusional Firecracker

Roses In An Open Window

Post Landing Questionnaire

For April, Acrostic

Missionary Rapist Frac King

Apple Tree In December

Autumn Leaves Glitter Notes

Numbing Circus

Dance To An Invisible Backdrop

Bats Eat Bugs

Can You Hear Me Now

Carnal Earthlings Are Hungry - Pantoum

Children Of The Fire

For Winter Solstice 2013 - Sestina

Lighthouse Tide

Lion’s Lace

On Peace, Sestina

Funny Dollar

Morning Stroll

Mystic Ocean Land

New Mexico Sunset – Greetings From The Swimming Pool

Pencil

Pot Of Gold Rain Bubbles

Star Man

Sunrise Fire Death

China Bull – Flash Fiction

For Matt R. Rocks

The Starfish That Got Away

R.e. Kooh

Unit-Tee’s Angel

On Wings - Prose

Wet Flower

Wild Cat At The Card Table

Fisherman’s Prick; Scorpio In Pisces

Black Coffee Guts

She Cried

Not Always With Love

Stuck In The House

Want To See My O-0 Boa Constrictor?

Frankenstein’s Sacrifice

Lou’s House On The Right

Train To Buddha Fest

The End

Poetry Baptism

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the virtual online world of blogs and profiles.

First Words

Cemetery Bunny

Josephine was a scruffy old brown bunny sitting quietly in a corner of the petting zoo content to be left alone. She had always wanted to escape the hectic zoo. It was full of children wanting to pet and feed her dried green pellets which at first she hated, but grew to eat them because it meant the children would eventually go away.

Josephine never did understand why Rose, a young girl who fed her fresh greens and hay sprinkled with sweet petals in her bowl and let her roam the house, left her there one day. Joesphine appreciated two zoo caretakers, Katherine and Janice. They fed her every morning with fresh lettuce and bits of carrot and gave everyone a warm cheerful hello. It was rest of the day Josephine could live without.

When Janice started cleaning up the garbage left behind by visitors that day, she noticed Josephine in the corner. She softly asked her to move, but the bunny would not budge. Janice let her be.

Twilight was approaching when Josephine fell into a deep sleep. Her heartbeat slowed to an undetectable rate. She began to dream she was curiously sniffing the gate, when it swung wide-open inviting her out to freedom. She thought, This is my big moment. As she hopped out the gate, she felt excited and scared at the same time, hoping to find the most delicious food in the world: flowers. She especially loved