Memorable Sayings of Poetry

By Marleen Rita Duckhorn

In Duckhorns twelfth book, Memorable Sayings of Poetry, she is writing from a comforting source that lifts the spirit with her sayings as words to the wise, known by some and shared by all. These strange normalities, as she calls them, are enticing, witty, and memorable; and teach us the messages of the yearning pen. This pen is alive, and the well is the indigo nature of the subconscious.

She enjoyed writing about various topics in the eight chapters of this collection, revealing her sayings around every corner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984511485

Marleen Rita Duckhorn

Flapping Soul, Words in Verse is Marleen Rita Duckhorns tenth published collection of poems. Her topics are as varied as one might expect from the active mind of such a prolific writer, but in this book she mainly focuses on the different situations and aspects of the soul itself. She is bold at times, speaks her mind and can be humorous. It is the strength that gives her work appeal and makes her voice worth hearing. The topics in between make for an engaging read with just the right use of phrases Duckhorn has a special knack for. Her style is singularly refreshing. You will feel like she is talking to you, it is believable, and truths are told. She exudes in her work a passion hard to deny. Her use of meditation to muse in on the subjects at hand is quite obvious. This reflects upon all her close observations on any subject she writes about. This is the poets favorite book and she hopes you enjoy it too.

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Copyright © 2018 by Marleen Rita Duckhorn.

Her website is www.marleenritaduckhorn.com

Library of Congress Control Number:     2018902466

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Rev. date: 02/23/2018

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to every poet.

Acknowledgements

I want to thank my husband, David H. Neidner, for his love and support, my mother, Dorothy M. Severson, step-father, Edward Severson, Jude Cortes, and Raymond F. Culley, Jr. for their kind encouragement. Special thanks to Bernice Walker for her outstanding technical support.

Prologue

In Duckhorn’s new book, Memorable Sayings of Poetry, she seems to have a knack of taking a single thought and developing it into a poem, creating a more complete and complex idea than the original thought. With a simple idea, she is able to engage the senses and imagination where one can hear and feel the eternal cadence that underlies everything. Poetic sayings can be regarded as the highest expression of human thought and imagination. Human thought is language, and poems are the gems of language. This collection is pulled from the poet’s reserves where she grasps at what is a step beyond compulsion to write. She writes steadfast in pursuit of the indelible poem, trying to dispel all doubt that there actually is one somewhere.

Author’s Note Poem

There were choices all throughout my life

I’ve made them based on guts

The poems included in this book

Kept me from going nuts.

Writing is a safe haven

A topic I try to show

The sky-mind is the fly field

And the pilot, I’m trying to know.

So the automatic pilot

Is out on all respects

I consider words as sky altars

And I continually genuflect.

If there’s any altering to do

I’ll use a new propeller

I am amused within clear blue skies

Where my pen-plane becomes a dweller.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1   Philosophical Poems

Memorable Sayings

Repose

Scarcely A Century Ago

Regimen Of The Sublime Nature

Roses And Fountains

Silver Thread

Overtaken Smile

Upon Being Cosmically Reluctant

Common Sense

Legends

Reconstruction Of The Past

The Subtle Realm

Regrets And Failures

Perseverance

Ancestry

The Ears And Eyes

Strive For Excellence

Life With Dignity

Resolutions

Intellectual Eyes

To Be Prosperous Is Many Faceted

The Simile Of Action

Intuition

Placate The Important Wish

Chapter 2   Love Poems

Love And Time

Agony

The External Battlefield

Deep Heart

Knowledge Versus Love

When Love Needs Advice

Love’s Revealing Stories

When I Love

Saddened

Prose Of Love

The Awakening

Deprived Of A Long Ago Love

Love’s Been Hiding

More Pertinent Nerve

Sweetness In Time

Holy Matrimony

A Certain Joy To Love

Back Again

Bad Love Turned Good

You Couldn’t Love

The Presence Of Love

Other Loves

Wounded Love

Peace Of Mind

Self-Prison Of Love

To A Childhood Friend

A Blissful Trademark

Recoiled Love

Too Late To Love You

Without Love

Chapter 3   Assorted Topics Poems

Do We Belong To Nature?

Flags And Songs

A Pep Talk To Yourself

Poverty

Pinnacles Of Black Magic

The Set-Up

Some Poor Soul

Insidious Relics

The Joy Of Hummingbirds

Poems For Robins

Break Of Day

Fish Net Blues

The Jocular Stone

The Desert

The Past, The Future, And Now

Pearls

We Fear

The Cosmos And Farming Poem

Caught In The Captivity Of Time

Soon

To Be Rich

Mexico

Buckets Of Brains

Reservoir Of Poems

No One Can See A Phantom

Human Courage

Proper Destiny

Serpents Are Fictitious

A Nocturnal Sea

Before You Pick A Flower

A Housefly’s Jargon

Drought

What Is Old Age?

Rip Tide

Money

Kindest Writing

Wrestling And The Need For Reassurance

Open Roads

Death Of A Daisy

Sand

No Ego At All

The Zephyr

Soul Prize

What Bees Do

Aristocrats, Indeed

Suitcase

Thunderbolt

Course Of Flying

To Summon A Livelihood

Personal Orbit

Extreme Unction

Withered By The Sky

Chapter 4   About Poetry and Poet’s Poems

Strange Normalities

Poems Need Ideas

Poetry Enacts My Heart

The Scat Poem

What A Poem Can Do

The Speaking Mind

Nebulas In Color

A Poem Is A Duplicate

Stars Talk

Earth’s Residence

Understanding Time And Space

I’ve Studied

Fumbling At The Thought

A Feast For The Eyes

How Can Eyes Not Weep?

Poet’s Joy

Cursive Writing And Souls

Phrases That Connect To Silence

Sentenced To Poetry

Writing The Indelible Poem

Karma

A Great Happiness

Sleeping Life

Conjugated Assembly

Writers

Awareness And Ideas

More Life, More Poems

Bold Announcement

Reading Into Something

Crossing The Tracks

The Brain Is What You Feed It

The World Needs Help

Poet’s Ocean

Poetry Is My Statement

Words

Joint Effort

In Their Graves

A Wonderful Lesson

Poet’s Sayings

When Evil Overtakes A Poet

The Eternal Book

From The Ink

Gifts

As A Poem Comes To Life

Evil, To A Poet

Writer’s Prime

A Poet’s Part In Life

Gift Of Poetry

Proceeding Verse

Chapter 5   Life Poems

Life Cannot Live Alone

Life And Death

Death

To The Death Factor

Life Exceeds

A Soul’s Life

A Soul’s Emblem

Best Bet

Sentimental About A House

In The Beginning

Ride The Wave To Freedom

Soul Flight

High Pretense

Do You Feel Like Me?

Angel’s Names

Lucky

Bottled Religion

When One Really Thinks About Glory

Redemption

Meditation

Me Of Little Faith

To Ignore

Clarity

To Signify The Rapture

Faith Beyond Faith

In The Patient Person

Drifting Off In Spirit

Chapter 6   Cosmos Poems

Fisher Sun

Given The Chance

In Space Oblivion Detains Us

Vivid Space

Freedom For The Cosmos

Mighty Chambers Of The Rich

Immersed In Totality

Hide And Seek

Pluto

Saturn’s Warning Rings

The Scoop

One’s Moment

Does The Universe Know?

Remote Star Rapture

I Have High Expectations

Spy Dogs

The Sky Points Nowhere

Salty Sun And Ocean Moon

Loitering On Earth

Matter Matched

Fortunate Twilight

Neighboring Stars

Beautiful Skies

What Set The Sky Forthright?

Starvation Sky

Not Everyone Believes

Stars Again

When The Wind Turns Cold

Bright Objects

Dawn And Dusk

Mercury

Our Sun

Memories And Seasons

Nature’s Castle Of Soul

The Ether Rules

Chapter 7   God and Heaven Poems

Definitions Of Heaven

Why Heaven Is Blue

Call Me A Spirit

Experimentation

Victim Of The Occult

Waiting For God

God Lets Bad Things Happen

If Humans Didn’t Have Souls

Do Prayers Work?

If God Didn’t Invent Or Create The Universe

Tell Me Of Your Savior

Obliged To Be Different

Contented Heaven

Dispersed Within The Silence

Why Does God Allow Us To Die?

Lanced By A Religious Weapon

Night And Day

God Is A Rooftop Adventure

Impersonating God

Kneeling On Splinters

Home And Church

Nameless Spoof

Sit Down And Love Me Lord

A Throne Back In Time

Hard To Top

Dire