New Kindle eBook!!! Mixed Nuts

Hey all!! Just completed another collection of poetry. Mixed Nuts is available on Kindle now, for just $0.99 per download (or free with Amazon Prime membership!). This collection rounds out the "Box of Chocolates" series, which may or may not make it to paper - still debating on that!

I know I should be telling you how great the poetry included in Mixed Nuts is, but while I may be a prolific poet, I cannot for the life of me SELL it. I don't want to tell you what is in it, because I want you to experience it through your own reading, as "It Is Yours" will signify completely. While I believe what I have to offer is good stuff, my opinion isn't the one which matters, because in the end, the story is just words on a page until a reader transforms it into the story it becomes.

Please enjoy! (Reviews welcome!!) :)


© 2012 Deanna Repose Oaks
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Taking a few days....

Since I started this blog of poetry, I have been trying to keep to a new poem every other day, or every third day, or as close to that as I can come. The holidays are upon us, and I am now surrounded by family and friends to the point that my time is very limited. Therefore, I can't keep to that pace for this week. I will be back next week, with a new collection as well as some new poetry for you to read here.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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Memories

Triggered by something
Haunting in their approach
Can't be contained
Always beyond reproach
New ones form
Old ones relived
Twisting into a past
Waiting to be forgived
Why do we keep them
To relish in the pain
To expound in the joy
Or to try to regain
The past we want to remember
Instead of the one we lived


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Clear Path

Sometimes you just need a roadblock
To keep you from doing
That really stupid something,
The one that will be screwing
You for the rest of your life
The roadblock blocks your path
And keeps you in the clear
It holds back the wrath
Of the evil thing you could do
Or the stupid thought
It keeps you out of harms way
And from being caught
So why be angry
For something in the way
It could just be the one thing
That just saved the day

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Twisting, Turning, Upside Down

Emotions running amok
Around the heart and through the head
Can't see the light
So filled with dread
Over the end of the world
So soon will come
Freaking out
Over what will become
Of this world after the day
The Mayan calendar ends
Emotions so coiled
Over the media trends
Twisting, turning
And upside down
Freaking out
About to drown
Within the hype surrounding
Over the end of the world
That may never come

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Very, Very Bad Thing

Shut it down
Shut it out
I can't take it
Without a doubt
There is such a thing
As too much feeling
I feel it now
I hate it
Shut it out
I can't take it
There is more
I just know
But I can't see
Need to let go
But I can't
Shut it down
Shut it out
It is everywhere
It is everything
That is wrong
With this world
Rolled up in one
Very, Very bad thing.

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In a Funk

Well, I logged onto facebook yesterday to find the most horrible news being posted over and over and over again. I turned on the tv and the same - the same bad news over and over and over again. I turned off both the computer and the tv.

My heart still hurts.

I don't know what else to say because I shut down. I don't want to feel, because it hurts too much. And without feeling, there isn't writing. I will wait to feel for tomorrow.

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