Ten Very Short Poems
By Lenny Everson
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Copyright Lenny Everson 2011
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Contents
What
is Love?
My words in Poems
How Can I Become Rich?
Why is the
Church Silent?
What is Wealth?
Last Butterfly from
Eden
Ashes
Dragonfly ?
Seascape
Unfinished Poem
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What is Love?
in the morning you lie in bed
your
head on his shoulder
his cheek in your hair
wait for his first
words
listen for one word
"we"
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My words in poems.
I try, but they are
like
butterflies
painted by a blinded woman
trying to
remember.
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How Can I Become Rich?
the sound of returning geese high
overhead
the April rains that call tulips from cold earth
a
kitten, almost too young for love, in my warm hand.
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Why is the Church Silent?
The gargoyled church stands
empty
Beside the foot-thronged street;
The people, tired of
promises
Have voted with their feet.
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What is Wealth?
He stood under the streetlight,
crying
Somewhere, someone
Walked the beaches of the
world
Looking for strange seashells.
He didn't want to collect
seashells
He just wanted to be able to.
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Last Butterfly from Eden
I am the last butterfly
From
Eden
Just out, as the great iron doors
Slam closed
In a
shower of rust.
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Ashes
I always fled flames
Till they
caught me, now I know
I really feared ashes
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Dragonfly
A small red dragonfly
Sunning its
wings
On a willow trunk
By the river
Dozens of new shoots
From the
deftly-sawed stump
Some of us need roots in a storm
Some need
wings in the sunlight
If you try to have both
You must lift the
world
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Seascape
I know a poet, picked a pebble,
wrote a poem
To his bicycle
I met one, dug into warm sand, said
lines
About her grandfather
I am one, married you, and finding
the sea
Have no words.
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Unfinished Poem
Afternoon is an old woman
Shopping
for apples
Morning is a small child
Spoiled, dropping rattles
I
am a fish in currents too strong
And far from the weeds.
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List of Completed Works by Lenny Everson (to 2011-12-06)
NOVELS
- Death On a Small, Dark
Lake. 67,700 words. Our hero snags a body in a remote lake.
Available on Smashwords
- Death on a Rocky Little
Island 71,500 words. Our hero convinces a friend to take
a canoeing trip to the 30,000 islands .Available on Smashwords and
obooko
- Mount Moriah 50,000 words. A strange
sequence events involves a priest, a poet, a CSIS agent, a space
alien, four horny teens, among others. Available on Smashwords
-
Last Exit to Pine Lake 45,000 words. A dying writer goes
back into the bush to off himself. Grimly literary. Available on
Smashwords and obooko
NOVELETTES
- Granite and Dry Blood.
9,700 words. Our hero wants to write a book on Massassauga Park.
Various people would prefer that he didn’t. Available on
Smashwords
- Death on a Foggy Spring Portage. 11,800
words. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy
portage. Available on Smashwords
Screenplays
- Murder on a Foggy Spring Portage. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage.
Plays
- Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today’s world to remember their lives. A short (20-minute) play for two actors. Available on Smashwords
Full-Length Poetry Books
- The Minor Odyssey of Lollie
Heronfeathers Singer. A middle-aged woman tries to connect with
her aboriginal ancestry.
- In The Tavern of Lost Souls.
Four poets meet at a grungy bar once a month to give their poetic
answers to random questions.
- Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont
are Dead. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today’s
world to remember their lives
Poetry Chapbooks and E-Books
- 22 Love Poems for Love,
Weddings, and Anniversaries (compiled from other works)
Available on Smashwords
- Cherish the Day: 16 Canoe Poems for
Summer. part of a set of six chapbooks about the love of
canoeing. With illustrations.. Available on Smashwords
- Fierce
and Fine and Free: 18 Canoe Poems for Spring. part of a set of
six chapbooks about the love of canoeing. With illustrations.. to
Amazon/Kindle
- Fireplace and Wine: 15 Canoe Poems for Winter.
part of a set of six chapbooks about the love of canoeing. With
illustrations.. to Amazon/Kindle
- No Ordinary Waters: Canoe
Poems from a Strange Mind. part of a set of six chapbooks about
the love of canoeing. With illustrations.. to Amazon/Kindle
- What
Last Golden River Run: 17 Canoe Poems for Autumn. part of a set
of six chapbooks about the love of canoeing. With illustrations..
Available on Smashwords
- Encounter in a Small, Old Cemetery.
Autumn. Midnight. Poet visits a small, old private graveyard.
Available on Smashwords
- Fire and Ashes. Poems about
life’s flames and regrets.
- The Empty Tarmac of a
Long-Abandoned Airport. Poems about having a midlife crisis.
Available on Smashwords
- Love Poems A compilation
-
Pray for Me: 22 Poems Probably Slandering God and Jesus
-
Ballads from an Unlucky Fisherman: Available on Smashwords
-
Tweetable Limericks: Volume I. 60 limericks small enough to be
tweets Available on Smashwords
- Hiking Poems
Available on Smashwords
- Why Haven't Aliens Contacted Us?
Available on Smashwords
Co-Authored Poetry Chapbooks
- Who Would Be a God? Susan
Ioannou and Lenny debate the merits of being a god.
- How to
Dance Naked in the Moonlight. Katherine L. Gordon (Celtic pagan)
and Lenny (skeptic) confront the ceremony Available on Smashwords
-
Cats and Dogs. With I. B. Iskov
- For Ko Aye Aung: A
Plea for His Release from Prison. For Amnesty International, with
other poets.
Non-Fiction Chapbooks and E-Books
- If You Condemn Gays: The Bible
on Homosexuality and Other Items.
- The Architecture of
Suburban West Kitchener. A light look at house styles.
- The
Architecture of The University of Waterloo. A light look at the
campus buildings.
- Making Tourist Attractions for Towns and
Small Cities. Advice.
- Technological Cures for Global
Warming. Available on Smashwords
- Hyphens: A Guide for the
Early Twenty-First Century Available on Smashwords
- Colons
and Semicolons: A Guide for the Early Twenty-First Century
Available on Smashwords
- How to Review Draft Technical
Writings
- Rebecca’s Trail (Grand River Trail in
Winter) Available on Smashwords
- 7 Temples to Bill Gates:
a modern mystery Available on Smashwords
- The Great God Pan -
Or Not Available on Smashwords
- Two in a Tent: Camping
Humor Available on Smashwords
Songbooks
- 18 Dingbat Songs for Kids
Available on Smashwords
- Canoe Songs. part of a set of
six chapbooks about the love of canoeing. With illustrations..
Available on Smashwords
- 18 Dingbat Songs for Kids
Available on Smashwords
lennypoet@hotmail.ca
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