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    As Boorish As Myself
    As Boorish As Myself
    As Boorish As Myself
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    As Boorish As Myself

    By Valvin Lee Jeanty

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    As Boorish As Myself is a collection of poems and proverbs which showcase how artistically indifferent one can be. A look into VLJ's perspective on life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherValvin Lee Jeanty
    Release dateNov 17, 2014
    ISBN9781311088185
    As Boorish As Myself
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    Valvin Lee Jeanty

    South Florida native with a semi abstract cultural view on life and the many worlds around me.

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      Book preview

      As Boorish As Myself - Valvin Lee Jeanty

      THROON

      Memoirs of Tomorrow

      Somewhere in the hands of time

      I wrote a poem that would not rhyme

      And readers to love it I could not find

      Today shows that slowly I would lose my mind

      So that very same day I gave up writing

      I gave up hope, yes I stopped lying

      For if you saw their faces there was no denying

      The art in my great heart is surely dying

      As My

      My confidant, my shoulder

      Wings as I lost my sober

      Dark days you make whole

      My light, my life you console

      The Shadow Against

      The shadow against the ocean floor

      Follows from shore to shore

      From the Island of Sicily

      To the open ends of St. Martinique

      Searching high and low for a friend

      Probing for a purpose in the end

      No, I cannot float anymore

      How I knew the days before

      But this new turn I see

      Is all the sands beneath the sea

      I am to land no more

      How did your world find me a bore

      The shadow against the ocean floor

      The shadow against you nevermore

      Presence

      I’d melt away with you this 14th of February,

      And I’ll love you always beyond extraordinary.

      Cupid has little to do with this happy ending.

      Bandit, you stole your smile straight outta heaven...

      I’ll be damned, only if I will be it with you.

      Raindrops never make it to hell, I’d say, Who knew?

      Out Again

      Fly away, fly away

      I gave my life unto yesterday

      A dream she told

      In words of gold

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