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    Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii
    Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii
    Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii
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    Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii

    By Edwin Rolf

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    Verse Voices is a second volume of verse by Edwin Rolf, the self-styled Poet Laureate of Forest Lane. Compiled over the past several years, this collection includes selections which describe his experiences with facing retirement and dealing with the physical problems of aging. His verse also describes his sense of fun and wonder about the reality of human life on earth and describes many of the ideas where he has found inspiration. Finally he offers quite a few brief observations on his total life experience to date. Taken together with his first book Vice Verses, Rolf describes for future generations much of his total life experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJul 25, 2006
    ISBN9781462831920
    Verse Voices: The Collected Works of Edwin Rolf Volume Ii
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    Edwin Rolf

    Edwin Rolf, the writer, and poet of renown, emerged o’er many decades from a tiny little town ‘midst the cornfields of Ohio where he played a mean trombone in high school and in college in bands and all alone. He became a Navy pilot and flew for five whole years, then settled in a valley with siliconic seers. He’s marketed computer stuff for years that he can’t count. He’s dabbled in the arts to seek a different mount. Then several years ago, into his addled mind, the verses started flowing of every shape and kind. He scribbles them on paper in the middle of the night; then puts them on his laptop to make them come out right. So when they did accumulate in numbers quid pro tem, Xlibris ads convinced him that he should publish them!

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      Verse Voices - Edwin Rolf

      Copyright © 2006 by Edwin Rolf.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:Xlibris Corporation

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      [email protected]

      34129

      Contents

      ALOHA

      He Moe’ Uhane (A Dream)

      Lahaina Ia Lana’i

      Lana’i Lament

      ‘Ai’e ia Ulala (Ode to Ursula)

      Haleakala

      The Road to Hana

      Slightly Palmy

      The Sound of the Surf

      eTired

      The Golden Rule

      Management 101

      The Monkey

      Jangled Bells (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells)

      Four Letter Word

      O.U.R. Lament

      Forced March

      DotCOMatose

      Insubordination

      Wienie, Weedy, Weekly

      Pasture-ized

      Flee, Fight, Flow

      The Flier

      The Editor

      ReTired

      Easy Come, Easy Go

      Go Go Go Gone

      LIFE SAVERS

      Windows

      A View

      Forever Spring

      The Forest

      The Leap

      The Path

      The Journey

      Going North

      Perfection

      Resentment

      Give & Take

      The Jewel

      Hide & Seek

      Buddha Lite (Siddhartha Suds)

      Song & Dance

      Time & Tide

      POPPA’S PAGES

      Cracker Jack

      Geronimo Jack

      Jack I

      Poppa’s Day

      The Merry-Go-Round

      Stuff

      Minimalist in Marin

      Auto Allergic

      Ahoy

      The Warrior

      Helmer’s Helmets

      October

      The Phantom

      Skidaddle

      An MMI Goodbye

      Maestro Reemplazo

      Subbing With Else

      Special Ed

      The Saga of the Sock

      Who ARE They?

      Da Boyz

      Blitzed

      Raindrops

      PHYSICAL ED

      The Man in the Ditch

      Physical Ed

      XLent

      Lazy Bones

      Diet Riot

      Doughnuts

      Pill Poppin’ Poppa

      Organ Recital

      Rigor & Vigor

      The Bag Man

      Lost & Found

      The Fine Line

      Mildly Manic

      Mildly Manic Again

      Major Bose

      The Quest

      THEME & VARIATIONS

      VIRTUAL REALITY

      Virtual Reality

      Re-Engineered

      Rat Man

      The Hard Shelled Road Roller

      Miracles & Magic

      Spirits

      Clouds

      Cumulovisions

      Contrails

      The Kaleidoscope

      Pictures

      Photo Play

      Hawking Talking

      Phun With Physics

      String’s The Thing

      Holy Holomoves(At Home With Bohm)

      Microbessence

      Cosmosis

      YULOGUE

      Christmas Eve

      Handling Handel

      Red & Green

      Snow Flakes

      PARTING SHOTS

      Amazing Grace

      At Ease

      Beating the Odds

      Birthday

      Chemistry

      Clock Watch

      Control

      Craps

      Dawn

      Dodo M.O.

      Easter

      Episstemology

      Geologic Time

      God´s Playmate

      Head over Heels

      Hymns

      Imagination

      Kurz Und Lang

      Life

      Light

      Longfellow & Me

      Looney Tunes

      Merry Gone Round

      On The Head

      One

      Poppa Doodle Do

      Shooting Stars

      60 Something

      Soap

      Star

      Take It Or Leave It

      Tempus Fugit

      The Basic Life

      The Ladder

      The News

      The Rocket

      The Trinity

      The War

      Time Out

      Time Travel

      Totally Spent

      Versasillities

      Wake-up Call

      Dedication

      To all those who have gone before;

      To all those yet to come;

      To my loving wife;

      To the tables down at Dip Sea;

      To the place where Blitzen dwells;

      To the dear old queen size bed we love so well;

      But most of all, to those who have purchased this book!

      ALOHA

      He Moe’ Uhane (A Dream)

      ‘O au moe i ko’u kua

      (I lie on my back)

      ‘O au nana pono ia ke ‘opua

      (I stare at the cloud banks)

      A me ko’u manao ho’ohemo

      (And my mind takes off)

      A he ho’olahalaha koa’e

      (Like a soaring tropicbird)

      ‘O au lana i ko’u kua

      (I float on my back)

      ‘Ole ke moana nalu

      (In the ocean surf)

      A me o’au ‘ike

      (And I experience)

      Hemolele palekaiko

      (Perfect paradise)

      Ma he wai papa lane

      (In a water heaven)

      Hele kekahi wa

      (Without any

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