To Trace Familiarity

By William Flewelling

Life is encountered in events and images, in what is overheard and what is noticed in some little corner of awareness. Some of these flickers in life become as muses, tickling the imagination and inviting a wisp of verse. These become the familiarity that entertains the poet's mind and become, in turn, the poets for another mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496973054

William Flewelling

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in central Illinois. Led by a request from Mildred Corwin of Manua OH when I arrived there in 1976, I long developed and led a series of bible studies there and in LaPorte IN and New Martinsville WV. These studies proved to be very feeding to me in my pastoral work and won a certain degree of following in my congregations. My first study was on 1 Peter, chosen because I knew almost nothing about the book. I now live quietly in retirement with my wife of 54 years, a pair of dogs and several cats.

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Contents

Foreword

1.   Between New York And Paris

2.   Memories Relived

3.   Glib Quips Exchanged

4.   Pose Off Of Profile

5.   I Do Not Recognize Her Face

6.   Hearing ‘From Fantasie in E-flat’

7.   As All Else Fails

8.   Hearing Of Another Class Mate’s Death

9.   Vultures In Congress On A Corpse

10.   Vulture Observation

11.   The Last Of That Deer Settles

12.   One Delayed Lunch

13.   With Chiseled Poise

14.   One Lively Face

15.   Refusal Of Dessert

16.   Abbreviated Exchange

17.   She Admits She’s New

18.   On Final Recognition

19.   Long Jangles To Entwine The Veil

20.   The Mistress Of The House

21.   Desiring To Be Alone

22.   The Mingling Hand Of Peace

23.   Remembering Charlie Milton

24.   Apt Chimes Intervene

25.   Composed In Waiting Silence

26.   A Trio, For A While

27.   Decisions On The Piles Of Frosting

28.   This Toddler Girl

29.   After The Post

30.   Emergent Grin

31.   The Passing Brood

32.   Attentive To The Word

33.   A Cat & A Bubble

34.   The Sky And Road

35.   To Naught I Fear When I Abide

36.   The Daring Deer

37.   The Sound And Silence Of Crows

38.   The Apron’s Tale Forth-told

39.   One Little Bird

40.   As Veterans’ Day Provides Preview

41.   Flickerings Of Aging Memory

42.   Stop

43.   The Blonde’s Achievement

44.   Dinner Counsel

45.   As Life’s Veneer Gives Way

46.   Acquaintance Of A Combat Veteran

47.   Invested Eyes

48.   Noticing Unnoticing

49.   A Balance Of A Sort

50.   Back To Share The Space Anew

51.   Consideration Of Departure’s Feats

52.   Accumulating Obituaries

53.   And Then The Upset Comes

54.   The Light Weight Hem

55.   Waiting Through November

56.   New Laughter

57.   Freshening At An Evening Breeze

58.   Contraband

59.   Turkeys In The Road

60.   Grey Elegance

61.   Left Uncertain

62.   A Counter-Fuss

63.   The Corner Of The Roses

64.   Loving Small Children

65.   The Eyes Are Set

66.   The Gospel Has Been Read

67.   In Stern Concern

68.   At Postlude Voluntary

69.   Gazing At The Day Of Fifty

70.   Uncertified Discontent

71.   A Chatter After Reading Deeds

72.   Nearing The Day Of Remembrance

73.   Magical Hands

74.   Invitation Hinting Discovery

75.   One Humming Bird To Watch

76.   In That Glass, Darkly

77.   The Pleasure Of The Child

78.   The Third Quarter

79.   The Close Duet

80.   In Conversing Conversion

81.   A Comforting

82.   With Pleased Reading

83.   Travelers Of An Advancing Age

84.   The Sleeping Lad

85.   Around The Plaintive Call

86.   A Visit Is In Order

87.   It Will Be Fresher

88.   With Pleasure On The Side

89.   After Reading Another Coffee Shop Poem

90.   Peripheral Intrigue

91.   With Such Determined Glint In Eye

92.   Significant Presence

93.   An Unexpected Christmas Card

94.   Listening

95.   The Big Gold Stars

96.   One Great Wisconsin Hawk

97.   A Warm Propriety

98.   First Reminder Of Winter

99.   A Child’s Delight

100.   The Poem Man

101.   The Laughing Collection Of Friends

102.   By The Door: Rue Twenty One Etcetera

103.   In Passing Bye

104.   Mastery Of Mystery

105.   A Luncheon Exercise For Five

106.   A Waiting Pose

107.   One Low Flown Bird

108.   Catching The Moment On The Sly

109.   Clack And Clatter

110.   Flip Greeting

111.   While Skimming Lines

112.   Retrieval

113.   So Steady A Pose

114.   Around The Silver Bands

115.   The Hint Of Sure Delight

116.   Apparently Anticipated

117.   While The Afternoon Is Slow

118.   Blithe Pleasure