Love

Remember the new book I'm working on?  Well, here is a preview of one of the poems, a little piece I did while sitting in a class.  I don't recall why, but for some reason I got thinking about what love really is, what true love can be defined as.  I hope you enjoy it.

Love is not just a word,
that is declaration.
Love is not a feeling,
that is but affection.
Love is not starry eyes,
that is just attraction.
Love is actions, service -
that is called devotion.

David Jamison

Book # 2

Last December I finally completed a twenty-month project of mine and self-published my first poetry book, "Nature's Voice."  It's a collection of one-hundred poems about nature.  I wrote it over the course of seventy-five days, but with typing (I hand write most of my work first,) and compiling, (not to mention procrastination,) I didn't get it printed and bound until just before last Christmas.
Don't go looking for it at your local Barnes & Noble store just yet though.  I haven't found someone to mass-publish it.  The search continues, but while I wait it's a great feeling to see my own words in book form.
Anyway, I'm now working on book two.  I don't foresee this involving much writing, (though you never know when the Muse will descend,) as I will be gathering up and printing my previously written works on the chosen topic, which works are very numerous.  This second book will be on that which all poets fall under the spell of - love.

P.S.  I'll be sure and let you all know as soon as I get this as-yet-unnamed book printed and bound.

Crimson Trove

Last July, while looking over a book sale at my local library, I stumbled across a literary treasure trove!  It was a set of six volumes of poetry, bound in red and gold.  Originally compiled and published in the 1920's by Edwin Markham, my memorial edition of the "Anthology of the World's Best Poems" was printed in the 1950's, and is all that it claims to be. 
Filled with good, ensightful, touching poetry from across the ages, this "crimson trove" as I'll call it was brand new, and cost $7!  I apologize for gushing, I'm still in shock when I think of the odds; for lovers of good old-fashioned poetry like myself, this is nothing short of a jewel.  I highly recommend looking it up in your local library or antique bookshop.
Anyway, I will from time to time be sharing poems I find inside its covers.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

P.S.  Here are two of the sites you can find the books at online.
http://www.amazon.com/Memorial-Anthology-selected-Markham-Volumes/dp/B000FNLYMU
http://www.iobabooks.com/books/171055940.html