Poems from Time Past: Crossroads, Byways, Destinations

By Emily Blake Vail

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469187839

Emily Blake Vail

Emily Blake Vail enjoys writing in many genres: novels, children’s fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poems. ”POEMS from TIME PAST: Cross-Roads, Byways, Destinations” is her second published poetry book, following the 2008 publication of “POEMS … this fragile earth” (both Xlibris publications). In both volumes she comments on and confirms her experiences of life in the twentieth century. Ms. Vail’s published books include: The Ghost Shrimp, The Burlap Bag, Dark Night on Mimosa Trail, The Grey Ghost of the Pharaoh, Carla and the Con Men (Wright Books); The Lost Equation Game, The Spindleburne Spectre, Mist in the Heart, The Search for Ole Ben’s Treasure, Sue and Charley, Jonah & the Edge ( Xlibris). Short stories appeared in a collection by Pen and Pica Writers entitled “ The Night The Animals Screamed “. Ms. Vail’s occupations over time have included editing, teaching (high school and college), church choir director and soloist, volunteer coordinator, boutique manager, mother, and college administrator wife. With degrees from Birmingham-Southern College (A.B); Georgia State University ( M.A. in Medieval English literature), and the University of Georgia (Med in counseling) she has assumed many roles and participated in varying activities---some leading to the writing of novels and poems. A member of several writers’ groups, she is presently active in the Atlanta Branch, National League of American Pen Women. In 1997-99 she served as President of the Georgia Poetry Society. She continues to be an active member of St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church and sings in the choir.

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Copyright © 2012 by Emily Blake Vail.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2012905258

ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-8782-2

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CONTENTS

CROSSROADS

Lines Written After The 3rd Of June, 1959

Thirteen

Master: A Biography

Memoir From 1964

Often

The China Tree

J. J.

A Magic Charm

A Parable

Memo To A Con Man

Legally Separate

Bird Hordes Rampage The Garden

A Poem For Brothers

Emergency Stopping Only

Speed Limit 25

Yield

End 3 Mile Measured Course

Gas

A Poem For My Sisters

Fool’s Song

Replacing The Universal Joint

Seasonal V

1970: In Spades

BYWAYS

On The Nature Of Jazz

On The Nature Of Biography

Ghosts

DESTINATIONS

The Story Of Robert

Lines Inspired By A Painting*

Morning Of The Crippled Tree

A Question Of Song

Notes Made At An Apva Meeting

15.

Rhapsody For Dead Leaves

Duh!

Ballad Of The Sea Lover

So It Goes

Ballade For Summer

The Ballad Of The Bloody Accident

City Sonnet

So!

The Undead

First-Born

For Mother: En Route

Seasonal—IV

Halloween

Intimations Of Mortality In India

Poem For My Father

Prior To The Alarm System

Oomph!

/Ebv

10.

EASTER WEEKEND IN ATLANTA

Good Friday—Greenbrier

Saturday—Lenox

Sunday—Northlake

Monday—Downtown Atlanta

Modern Love Song

Two Dreams And A Still-Life

THE TRAIL

The Trail

DEDICATION

For Distinguished Daughters:

Hana, Thu, Lise, Julie

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many thanks to artist Mozelle Funderburk for permission to include her pen-and-ink sketch (Painted Sounds, NLAPW, Atlanta branch) of The Trail, a poem published previously. (POEMS… this fragile earth Xlibris: 2008).

Published in Georgia Poetry Society’s Reach of Song are poems: Memo to a Con Man, Two Dreams and a Still-Life and So!

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