Hearts Tick and Hearts Tock

By Kristina Gockenbach

My name is Kristina Gockenbach and I am a poet. I have faced a lot in my life and through it all I become a survivor and fighter. I learned a lot along my journey thus far and in doing so I found writing. I had finally found a way to express myself and it become my career choice as well as my life. I believe this book to be very relatable to the different generations. I think the people who read my work will find it touching and a welcoming read, because my poetry is designed to be relatable, imaginary and full of emotion based on the everyday struggles one must face. Everything from heartbreak, family, love, and sadness is touched upon in my array of poetry. I aim to make a name for a girl like me. This is a book to symbolize that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Follow your dreams and shoot for the stars for that one in a million shot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493123056

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Copyright © 2013 by Kristina Gockenbach.

ISBN:                  Softcover                              978-1-4931-2304-9

                            Ebook                                   978-1-4931-2305-6

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.

Rev. date: 11/07/2013

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Contents

1000 Watts

A Bagger’s Story

A Change

A Door

A Goodbye I Can’t Write

A Thousand Miles

Against My Neck I Have to Carve

All Falls Down 2

All Falls Down

Alone?

Alternate Places/Alternate Faces

Beauty in the sky

Behind our masks

Breathe

Can You Make This Reality?

Catch It If You Can…

Caterpillar Girl

Childhood Swing

Describe My Feelings

Did it?

Don’t Want to Say Goodbye

Dreaming

Everything

Fighter

For Grandpa

Fun House Mirrors

Hands

I Don’t…

I Love you

I Run

I…

Ideas

Kristina Jane Gockenbach

Little Inspiration

Little Mrs. Sunshine

Music In My Head

My Angel

My Fortress Of Solitude

My Hero?

My Imagination

New Light

No Not…

Not that Alice

Overlooked

Poetry in Motion

Protect Me

Rain Fall

Shortness

Simple Spell

Strong Enough????

Tapping Fingers

The Artist’s Mind

The Clock of Life

The Infantry

The Pictures

The Princess

The Sandbox

The Tears I Have Shed

This Is Me

Useless Art Form

Waiting

We Were…

Where will I Be?

Who’s that girl in the mirror?

Why Does He Still Love Me?

Why is the Beginning Endless?

With Such Passion I Have Never Known

Write It

Yes/No

You

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1000 Watts

Amazing? Fantastic? What can I say? The smile so bright it shines. For him, for them. His shines brighter, my smile for him shines brighter. He makes me feel electrified, alive. My 1000 watt smile shines much brighter for him.

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A Bagger’s Story

Cans, bottles, boxes, and bags. Plastic bags and paper too. Filled with precision. Sliding the pieces of the purchase into the bag, fitting them in like pieces of a puzzle with speed and care. Line to line