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    The Gift
    The Gift
    The Gift
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    The Gift

    By Ryan McClelland

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    A must read, this collection of poetry is the first published work from Ryan McClelland. This collection includes poems on various topics including love, life, beauty, and the joys of writing poetry. Memorable pieces from this collection are, "Cosmedic", "Hot", and "Pen Point".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyan McClelland
    Release dateJan 19, 2015
    ISBN9781311195289
    The Gift
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    Ryan McClelland

    If you've learned nothing else, you've probably learned that life is a journey. As far as I can tell, it's never been about us or the routes we choose or where we end up on this journey. Life is what we make of it, and what's matters most is something we get to decide. Perhaps I'm too young or too old to figure it out, but I'm not sure what matters most to me yet. I'm not sure where I want to travel, what I want to do, or how I want to get there. But along the way I'm going to try my best to be open minded and curious.I'm always learning and always up to something, but at the end of the day I'm only a storyteller. I can't help it. We're all telling ourselves a story. After all, "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

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      Book preview

      The Gift - Ryan McClelland

      The Gift

      Ryan McClelland

      Copyright 2013 Ryan McClelland

      Published by Ryan McClelland at Smashwords

      Cover Image by Dianelys C. Ramos

      Digital Concept Artist

      [email protected]

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      Table of Contents

      Naked Words

      Pen Point

      Time to Write

      An Open Letter To My Customers

      Idan Zeal

      Beholder

      Sol

      Poetics

      Picture This

      Open Book

      Fertile Ground

      Counting Stars

      Appreciation

      Red

      An Experience

      A Star Afar

      Dance Again

      Goddess Undercover

      Cosmedic

      5 Feet, 4 Inches

      Fuel

      Paved Passage

      We Are Human

      Expectations

      Reasons

      Momentum

      Dream Girl

      River

      Hot

      Naked Words

      I could put that on paper

      Immortalize the moment

      Blow it out of proportion

      And make it sound important

      Until these gusting words become a storm

      That leaves the spine torn

      You can tell by the way it lands

      How often your jaw dropped

      As your eyes creased the pages

      And your fingers felt the weight of the words

      Describing with sky scraping

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