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    Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy: Collected Poems
    Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy: Collected Poems
    Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy: Collected Poems
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    Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy: Collected Poems

    By Roland Verfaillie

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    "Award winning novelist, Roland Verfaillie, displays his range of literary talent in his Collected Poems. Mr. Verfaillie, once more examines the complex questions concerning man's relationship with post-modern society. Missing is the humor typically associated with the novelist's work.However, his poetry provides a rare and refreshing glimpse into the author's serious side. The themes of his poetic works resonate with every man and woman's search for meaning, and the choices and sacrifices each must make to achieve it. Kudos for a masterpiece of new American poetry."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMay 5, 2011
    ISBN9781257741977
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      Book preview

      Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy - Roland Verfaillie

      e9781257741977_cover.jpg

      Hill of Sorrow Mountain of Joy

      Collected Poems

      Roland Verfaillie

      Copyright © 2010 Purple Onion Press

      All rights reserved

      Published by Purple Onion press

      Miami, Florida

      Designed and produced by Sigmund Rich, Purple Onion Press versessa@comcast.net

      Other works by Roland Verfaillie published by Purple Onion Press:

      The Ashley Dancers

      The Lie (screenplay)

      the book of job(s)

      the second book of job(s)

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.

      Writers Guild of America, East, Inc.

      Registration Number: I224158

      Date Registered, January, 18,2011

      Hill of Sorrow, Mountain of Joy

      9781257741977

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Epigraph

      Introduction

      Hill of Sorrow - Mountain of Joy

      Traveler Series

      Traveler

      Traveler’s Return

      Traveler On the Road…

      The Gods’ Work

      Waiting for the Tiller Man

      My Captive

      Dune Crossing

      Man Child

      Ode to Florida

      Simple Wedding

      Mae She Rest

      The Wedding Anniversary - (Till Death Do Us part)

      Babble

      Language index

      A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say, May new sufferings torment your soul.

      ~Soren Kierkegaard

      Introduction

      I owe this work to the inspiration of Samuel McCord Crothers, the late 19th Century essayist. I was particularly encouraged by the seminal ideas espoused in his essay: The Dame School of Experience (1920). Here is an excerpt from the essay on which I felt compelled to act - A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

      And this is what I’ve done. After years of writing prose in the form of the novel, I have ventured out, and taken up the quill, so to speak, to write poetry. Yes, I began every line with a capital letter, but I didn’t just keep writing prose. Well, okay, sometimes I do. But I don’t believe that the prose-poetry that results from this exercise in writing is anyone’s best. It is good enough if it fleshes out the space between the lines of what passes for a paragraph or two of prose. It is only marginally successful if it communicates an important

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