Selected Poems eBook Duane Simolke
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This short eBook includes the gay love poem “Home,” the strange story of “The Gardener,” and the comical “Angels and Razors,” as well as thirty other poems. These works also appear in Duane Simolke’s longer anthology Holding Me Together Essays and Poems.
Complete list of poems in this book Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception, second year, Angels and Razors, Separated, Faces, Songs In Sign Language, Forgotten, Higher Education, Family, Ex-Gay? Part I Cocoon, Ex-Gay? Part II The Ex-Me Movement, Ex-Gay? Part III Who Does God Hate?, The Escape Artist, Daughter, The Same Lips, Pharisee, Anne Bradstreet, Bareback, Cycle, Cross, Two Rapes, Rainbow, Elephant On An Opera Stage, Detour, Editing, Process, Haiku.
Selected Poems eBook Duane Simolke
Duane Simolke's, Selected Poems, is an accumulation of thoughtful and moving poetry.The first few poems "Chasing, Seagulls," "Home," "Album" are well-crafted ones that deal with love, sometimes unrequited, and relationships, mostly flawed, all painful.
These poems are followed by a diverse group of very thought-provoking and interesting verses that describe children as victims of war, the consequences of one's actions, the cutthroat business world, creativeness, chaos.
Then, Simolke deals with relationships/love using once again the theme of troubled love, this time with more maturity and growth. One poem called "Separated" is a very visual work using imagery of cliff and shore, to describe couples separated and calling out to each other unsuccessfully.
The next section of the book with a group of "Faces" poems shows the agony of AIDS. For anyone who has lost someone or knows someone who has lost loved ones to the ravages of this disease, these poems are a must read. Actually, they are a must read for anyone. The poems are beautifully crafted, lacking in anger, and totally compassionate to the victims of AIDS with the powerful theme that we must give the victims faces.
Following the Faces themes, are another diverse group of poems that deal with life and the true nature of human beings from a darker side. The last poem in this group deals with children of biracial parents, this one the child of a Vietnamese mother and a soldier.
Several poems dealing with being gay follow. They show the plight of young gays in the past and even today who use religion, therapy, whatever in denial of their homosexuality. These poems are perhaps the best in the book. They are descriptive and sad, but show sort of the middle of the gay experience. When one discovers his/her gayness but tries to deny and change because of parental and or societal pressure.
A group of dark poems follows, almost a coming of age period in the book. Simolke uses a romantic theme in one of them.
We come full circle at the end of the book with a poem called "Cycle." Also with poems that deal with family relations, with college, religion, injustice, accepting one's sexual orientation, parts of society accepting it, lots of rainbow imagery, and lots of religious references here and in the entire work.
I loved all the poems in Selected Poems, but my favorite is at the end, a poem called "Process." With the words: "Until I see writing and living as a single color." Great line. Great work.
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Selected Poems eBook Duane Simolke Reviews
Texas author/poet Duane Simolke earned his three advancing English degrees from Belmont University in Nashville, Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, and Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. He has published seven books in varying genres and has had articles/poems published in nightFire, Mesquite, Caprock Sun, Midwest Poetry Review, International Journal on World Peace, among others. His awards include Winner, Allbooks Reviewers Choice Award and four StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Awards.
Having just read THE ACORN STORIES this reader was drawn to the poetry of this important literary artist. The poems are rich in content and delicate in substance, and the fact that Duane is able to render gay poems so well places him in a rarified atmosphere that is better quote by sharing his work than by impotently attempting to describe them.
Home
When I lie beside him,
His knee presses
Against the underside
Of my knee,
His hand presses
Against my chest,
As if holding me together.
If I wake,
And he isn’t beside me,
I’ll curl up
Like a frightened child,
Lost in the dark,
Afraid to move.
If I wake,
And he isn’t beside me,
The thickest blanket
Won’t keep me warm
But I wake,
And find him
Beside me.
He holds me together.
Songs In Sign Language
With hymns in hands,
You address us,
The deaf members
Of the congregation.
We cannot consume
All the sounds of the choir,
Though some of us
Hear certain notes.
Your lips move,
But I hear no sound,
As if you sing to us
From behind a window.
What makes your hands
Get caught in the stars,
The brook, and the breeze?
What makes you want
To sign these words to us?
Hands move,
Fingers twirling,
Waving.
Fists close,
Touch your heart,
Then open
And reach outward.
Keep your hands still
If you need to rest.
Your smile interprets
Every word of every song.
A poet sings and we are the fortunate audience. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January18
Duane Simolke's, Selected Poems, is an accumulation of thoughtful and moving poetry.
The first few poems "Chasing, Seagulls," "Home," "Album" are well-crafted ones that deal with love, sometimes unrequited, and relationships, mostly flawed, all painful.
These poems are followed by a diverse group of very thought-provoking and interesting verses that describe children as victims of war, the consequences of one's actions, the cutthroat business world, creativeness, chaos.
Then, Simolke deals with relationships/love using once again the theme of troubled love, this time with more maturity and growth. One poem called "Separated" is a very visual work using imagery of cliff and shore, to describe couples separated and calling out to each other unsuccessfully.
The next section of the book with a group of "Faces" poems shows the agony of AIDS. For anyone who has lost someone or knows someone who has lost loved ones to the ravages of this disease, these poems are a must read. Actually, they are a must read for anyone. The poems are beautifully crafted, lacking in anger, and totally compassionate to the victims of AIDS with the powerful theme that we must give the victims faces.
Following the Faces themes, are another diverse group of poems that deal with life and the true nature of human beings from a darker side. The last poem in this group deals with children of biracial parents, this one the child of a Vietnamese mother and a soldier.
Several poems dealing with being gay follow. They show the plight of young gays in the past and even today who use religion, therapy, whatever in denial of their homosexuality. These poems are perhaps the best in the book. They are descriptive and sad, but show sort of the middle of the gay experience. When one discovers his/her gayness but tries to deny and change because of parental and or societal pressure.
A group of dark poems follows, almost a coming of age period in the book. Simolke uses a romantic theme in one of them.
We come full circle at the end of the book with a poem called "Cycle." Also with poems that deal with family relations, with college, religion, injustice, accepting one's sexual orientation, parts of society accepting it, lots of rainbow imagery, and lots of religious references here and in the entire work.
I loved all the poems in Selected Poems, but my favorite is at the end, a poem called "Process." With the words "Until I see writing and living as a single color." Great line. Great work.
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