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    Odes to Life and Love
    Odes to Life and Love
    Odes to Life and Love
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    Odes to Life and Love

    By Timothy M Nugent

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    This book is about the love partners have with each other. Forty- one years of creating a relationship and the tools they used to keep life going. It is the psychology of repair. Accepting of loss and moving on. Sometimes it is confessional,but mostly a tour of remembrance. A reason for life and the pursuit of happiness.

    It is a collection of emotions and reminder of how great life is. How life should be an ongoing adventure. How death is the beginning of a new life. My partner wanted me to move on and not die of loneliness. Hence the examination of life through poetry.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781456891183
    Odes to Life and Love
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    Timothy M Nugent

    Hello, my friends! My name is Timothy M Nugent. I am an author and poet, and this is my first book of short stories. I took excerpts from my poems and made them into short stories. “Short Stories by Timothy M Nugent will be my eleventh book published by Xlibris Self-publishing company. I live in Costa Rica, and I am enjoying PURA VIDA. My Girlfriend, Corina and I and our two puppies, LuLu and LaLa, hope you enjoy my Books. May you enjoy a great life. Buy my Books at understanding-online.com.

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      Odes to Life and Love - Timothy M Nugent

      Copyright © 2011 by Timothy M. Nugent.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2011904593

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4568-9117-6

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4568-9116-9

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4568-9118-3

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      Introduction

      38 years

      Ample

      Bangles

      Away

      Come To Me

      Crying Home

      Body and Soul

      Canadian Girl

      Desire

      Walk

      You

      Goodness

      Gretchen

      Cambria

      Thank God For Barbara S.

      Blind

      Monkey And Frog

      Friends

      Fragile

      Home

      Help

      Love to My Brother

      Look

      Lucky Man

      Mornings

      Years

      Time

      Quiet 2

      Time

      Why?

      Smile

      New

      Satisfaction

      Lotto

      Sin City

      Yosemite

      Understanding

      My Brothers

      Ride

      Today

      Pain

      Yellow Stone

      One shot deal

      Work

      Friends

      Today is tomorrow

      The thrown away penny

      The Old Philco

      Sacramento Oakie

      Big Jack

      It’s 2 a.m.

      If I were God

      I wish

      Gretchen

      Hurry up spring

      Need to ride

      The Beast

      Differences

      Ahhhh

      Cars

      ?!

      Health

      Animals

      The Fire Bike

      Chi—town

      Waste

      Her

      Waiver

      Blade of grass

      A man from Kilhern

      Harley

      Brothers

      Dead

      Cancer

      Midnight

      Valentines Day

      The Ring

      Feel

      Force

      The Bears

      Bike Path

      Late Night

      Late Nights

      Locked

      Family

      Kiss

      Ghost

      Lost Passion

      Drowning

      Mom

      Mom

      Remember

      Silence

      Journey

      Moving On

      No one’s perfect

      Lovers Point

      Quiet

      I can hear the ringing in my ears

      Questions

      Play

      Ocean Machine

      Phantom

      Reason

      Regrets

      Scared

      Seven Days

      Sounds

      Scrabble

      Visit

      Train Whistle Blowing

      Running Away

      Ride

      The Ride

      Strong

      A Wish

      Years

      At Peace

      Hands

      Introduction

      My name is Timothy M. Nugent

      Who like you had incidents in life which were urgent

      It is my hope that my poetic expressions

      Leaves you with tender impressions

      I hope it brings you intuitive thoughts

      A time to think what life has brought

      I find people seek relief

      Like me, when life brings grief

      I am no different than you

      Sometimes my life goes eschew

      When my wife died in two thousand-eight

      I realized that my life did not end and its not too late

      I was luckier than most

      I had a wonderful host

      All the mistakes I made in life

      Still she stayed my loving wife

      Through poetry good or bad

      It helps me enjoy the remaining time I have

      I hope my expression gives you peace

      Joy and love some positive release

      Life is too short

      Do not abort

      Hug your spouse and your kids

      Remember your mom and dad

      Remember what you have

      By the way

      Thanks

      Timothy M. Nugent

      38 years

      SHE WAS MY BRIDE FOR THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS

      AND REMEMBERING BRINGS SO MANY TEARS

      LONELINESS BUT NO DESPAIR

      I WAS LUCKY THERE IS NO ONE TO COMPARE

      THE LOVE OF MY LIFE YOU HAD TO BE THERE

      SHE HELD MY HANDS IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD

      SHE HUGGED ME WHEN SHE WAS SAD

      SHE GAVE ME CONFIDENCE WHEN TIMES WERE TOUGH

      SHE MADE ME

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