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    The Ballads of Barnabas Collins: Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum
    The Ballads of Barnabas Collins: Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum
    The Ballads of Barnabas Collins: Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum
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    The Ballads of Barnabas Collins: Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum

    By Ronald Hoffman

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    A collection of poems created by Ronald Hoffman, covering the emotional reaction to birth, life, and death, and facing the horror of awareness we as humans all must face. From the elementary school child, to the reactionary ideologue that a person seemingly becomes, along with old age that follows, Hoffman captures the emotional bond of the old man as he looks back toward his childhood and views a common thread of symbols that lend to his awareness, and to the playing out of the emotions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJul 31, 2014
    ISBN9781483535227
    The Ballads of Barnabas Collins: Reflections of the Shadow in the Continuum

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      Book preview

      The Ballads of Barnabas Collins - Ronald Hoffman

      9781483535227

      WHAT PUT THE LINES IN THE OLD MAN’S FACE?

      In the punishing peace

      Ghost heroes’

      Practiced chants

      Bloom and shrivel

      Children divided

      with words and

      encumbering devices

      Their lives framed

      From cradle to cloak

      Men from the grave

      Claiming children

      With drunken stories

      Teaching them

      To chide things

      They never learn to see

      Like blind seers teaching

      With each passing hour

      Of each passing day

      Always to look forward

      To something new,

      Something stimulating,

      Never knowing,

      Never seeing,

      Forgetting

      How came the lines

      on the old man’s face.

      THE STORY OF ELVIS ANGEL

      "He was Petey the iguana that cracked his

      tail on my neck and jumped to the

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