Voyages by Eric R. Pedersen is a collection of poetry spanning 37 years of writing, a poetic odyssey including "Complex Christmas" that laments his first Christmas without his sons, to the serenity of later canoeing under a meteor shower with one of them in "Between Trout Lake and the Milky Way," to the reverie of "Paddling Beneath the Supermoon" alone on his lake in North Carolina, to "Gravedigger" in which he ponders his own mortality. Voyages navigates the murky waters of deep emotion and self-reflection - a journey of ...
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Voyages by Eric R. Pedersen is a collection of poetry spanning 37 years of writing, a poetic odyssey including "Complex Christmas" that laments his first Christmas without his sons, to the serenity of later canoeing under a meteor shower with one of them in "Between Trout Lake and the Milky Way," to the reverie of "Paddling Beneath the Supermoon" alone on his lake in North Carolina, to "Gravedigger" in which he ponders his own mortality. Voyages navigates the murky waters of deep emotion and self-reflection - a journey of adventure, loss, regret, and renewal. The collection also includes poems of critical thought, imagination, and even hilarity. Rich in language, metaphor, imagery and perceptive use of subtleties, the poems are arranged in five chapters: Nature, Love, Tribulations, Humor, and Death. About the Author Eric R. Pedersen is a retired English professor who is a published poet and author of a textbook, Challenging Composition . Pedersen taught creative writing at Butler County Community College (PA) for thirty years and advised the BC3 Writers' Club and FACETS, the College's award-winning arts and literary magazine. A member of the Thoreau Society and Hemingway Society, he is an avid canoeist, fisherman, hiker and traveler. Pedersen lives on a lake near Hillsborough, NC and is a proud and dedicated father and grandfather. Excerpt Squash Blossom Necklace The doctor blew dyes into you To open the maze But it was that Navajo necklace - The squash blossoms' Silver flared funnels That beckoned my seed, Your eyes blazing blue green Like those turquoise stones As the squash blossoms Circled your neck, Danced down each side To its crescent center Whose luminous arcs flashed Past brown mounds, Down to your fluted blossom Glinted off burnished beads And streamed up to a loan stone, Lighting lost pathways now open To your fertile core.
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