It Could Have Been My Imagination: A Collection of 100 Poems

By Daniel Lee Prescott

The title, It Could Have Been My Imagination, and book cover art is a teaser about if the visions I have written about are in fact real or really just figments of my imagination, including life and the earth and universe itself.

Hopefully, the reader will be drawn into my world of visions and stories, will be entertained and, give in to contemplation about the various themes and hopefully thought-provoking journeys into the depths of imagination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781662481185

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It Could Have Been My Imagination

A Collection of 100 Poems

Daniel Lee Prescott

Copyright © 2023 Daniel Lee Prescott

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 978-1-6624-8117-8 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-8118-5 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Pin the Blame Game

Your Life Test

Inside Time's Truth

Twelve of Hearts

Simple Mind

I Knew the Victim

Golf with God

The Gray Ghost Coast

Twenty-Fourth Phase of the Moon

Taste the Light

The Speed Limit of Time

Success in This Mess

One Penny More

The Harbinger

Everything to Gain, Everything to Lose

Second Coming

Shock Wave

Seventh Sunspot on the Moon

Island Breeze

Merchant of God

Leah

What I Left Behind

Hidden in the Hurt

Nothing's Outline

Reality Speaks

Trouble for Safety

The Mystic

Three-Letter Words

That Starry Night Cat

Riding the Double L

Back to You

Spiderweb Bed

Maybe Baby

Stuck Between the Three

Can't Cheat the Blues

Music City 'Sembly Line

There's a Place

Song for Bobby Z

Leader or Breeder

The Middle of Time

Mother's Day

Love

Baby's Fine Behind

Liv Fly Away

Camille Lee Anne

Sunshine Smile

Life at the Lip

Jack and Marilyn (In B Flat)

The King

Sylvia

Round Holes, Square Pegs

You're So Young

The Specter of Life

She

Musicland

Rockin' Ready

Party Girls

Night Train

Unofficial Loser of Love

Fell for Mel

The Love Channel

Ain't Answers to Prayers

Tye-Dyed True

Boot Heels High

Just a Dime of Time

Test of Wills

Delusional Grandour

The Brick Red Sky

Jesus Wears a Jersey

Only a Couple?

The Right Side of Life

The Czar's Bazaar

Hidden in Dreams

The Day I Made Her Résumé

Love's Mystery

Love's Flood

Starting Blocks

DB Todd the Boulevard

A Symphony for Melody

Doing Life without You

Lost My Life the Day I Lost You

Only One World

Darla Kaye Peach Cotton Porter Baker

Lame Duck Season

Burn Your Flame of Glory or Just Forever Be Sorry

Balance Sheet

And Then It Rained

A Flame to Grow Bright

Lived to Try—Born to Die

Montana Mike and Molly

The Middle of Time

Earth Day

At Daylight's End

Cowboy Girl

Day by Day

Got the Esoteric Blues

Your Earth Mother

Pieces

Downtown Letdown

Too Long Ago

About the Author

Pin the Blame Game

(Johnny) Welcome to the pin the blame game, and here's the host of our show, MCDLP—the King of blame game pain!

(Mcdlp) Well, thank you, Johnny—and by looking at our studio audience members, I can sense a lot of displeasures—our computer's going over the survey you filled out during the warm-up before the show—so let's get started and let the blood flow!

(Johnny) Well, come on down to play the pin the blame game show—here's our first contestants—I'll call them out by name—let's have I.M. Rich to play against Granny Dirtpoor!

(Mcdlp) For this particular round we'll play on an uneven floor—we'll even let I.M. Rich make up the rules—we'll even let I.M. Rich keep the score—I.M. Rich, won't you tell us about yourself a little more?

(I.M. Rich) Hi, my name's I.M. Rich—I live on the top of the hill—behind the guarded steel gates of playground estates—got a Rolls—wife drives a Benz—we live behind trimmed hedges—live it up with all our rich friends!

(Mcdlp) Well, isn't that great? I live up there too—now, Granny—tell us a little bit about yourself and the rest of your Dirtpoor family—Johnny, start the clock—fifteen seconds will do.

(Granny Dirtpoor) Well, I've been living all alone since '84—that's when my husband Darn died coming in the front door—he worked at the chemical plant—cleaning out the PVC vat's floor—and now I'm just alone…

(Mcdlp) Well okay, Granny—enough of that—it's time to move on—let's let IM tell us the rules he can change as the blame game goes along—IM, it's time to make the call!

(Im Rich) This is how it's going to be—the first rule is I'll amass all the wealth—and decide on the bits and leftovers I don't want for myself—to spread among all the needy!

Here's rule number two—the game's already through—I'm friends with the games judges—government officials call me by my initials—they thank me for my large political party contributions—ask me what can we do just to please you?

Now give me my loot—because, Granny Dirtpoor, you just got the old heave-ho—IM is giving you the boot!

(Mcdlp) Well okay, IM—you just made a quick one hundred thousand—and stock options in the pin the blame game show—and we'll just pin the blame on you, Granny—and, Granny Dirtpoor, you get a big fat zero!

"Thanks to IM Rich for winning at pin