Poetry
When he wasn't working on clocks W. R. Smith wrote poetry-
Sound of Thought
$7.00The Sound of Thought contains forty-eight rhyming poems on both humorous and serious subjects. Typical of these titles are, Soul Search, The Edge of Sleep, Ma Fille, An Awkward Moment, and The Earth Below. It is a delightful booklet and will make a very nice and unusual gift.
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Images of Thought
$7.00Following the publication of my first book and the advice of the longtime reporter, I immediately began work on Shakespearian form sonnets. The reporter was correct. I quickly discovered how very difficult it is to manage the language in the strict from of the sonnet, but the challenge was a wonderful one that I enjoyed for several years of writing.
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Something About Love
$7.00The Sound of Thought contains forty-eight rhyming poems on both humorous and serious subjects. Typical of these titles are, Soul Search, The Edge of Sleep, Ma Fille, An Awkward Moment, and The Earth Below. It is a delightful booklet and will make a very nice and unusual gift.
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I Call You Love
$7.00This book, I Call You Love, is a love story, a book of free verse that I wrote for my wife. The artwork of the cover is from a famous sculpture. The book is in three parts. In part one, the couple is together, enjoying life. Each page of the part is a stand-alone poem and the total part is a poem. In part two, he is considering how terrible life would be without his charming wife. Like part one, part two is also a poem and each page is a stand alone poem. Part three is a poem and each page of it is also a stand-alone poem. In this part, he is considering the fact that he has his wife and life is good—so, why worry about it.
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Word Images
$7.00This book, Word Images, has an unusual history. I continued to write poetry for many years after publishing the fourth book, I Call You Love, However, I became so involved in writing articles for mechanical and clockmaking magazines here and in England that I finally stopped work on poetry. Recently, I was visited by a retired English teacher and her husband. I had previously sent her copies of some of my books and she studied the others during their visit. She insisted that I write more poetry. Following her departure, I remembered the file of poems I happened never to have published and studied them. There were not enough of them for a book. However, not being tied up with any projects, I decided, at age 88, to try to write enough more poetry to complete and publish the book, Word Images. It contains forty-five poems of both free-verse and rhyming poetry on an many subjects.
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A Look at Life
$10.00This is my last and most unusual poetry book. It not only contains free verse and rhyming poetry, on the philosophical views of life, I have also added the music sheets and a CD of the eight songs I wrote during the 60s. Like my other five books, this one would also be a fine gift for a wife or a girlfriend.
