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    Personal Alarm
    Personal Alarm
    Personal Alarm
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    Personal Alarm

    By Richard Johnson

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    Personal Alarm is a collection of poems I wrote after I discovered that the music career I felt destined to have after my move to California, was not in the cards for me. My frustration needed another art-form in offering that release. I’ve always had a love for the written word in composing lyrics for my songs, so the transition felt natural and perfect for me. The more poets I discovered, the more my heart felt compelled to pursue this lyrical process of unburdening myself, in a hard and uncompromising world. These poems were written in 1997. More volumes will follow at a later date.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Johnson
    Release dateOct 20, 2015
    ISBN9781519981691
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      Personal Alarm - Richard Johnson

      PERSONAL ALARM

      Poems by

      Richard Johnson

      Copyright © 2015 by Richard Johnson

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2015

      Personal Alarm is a collection of poems I wrote after I discovered that the music career I felt destined to have after my move to California, was not in the cards for me. My frustration needed another art-form in offering that  release. I’ve always had a love for the written word in composing lyrics for my songs, so the transition felt natural and perfect for me. The more poets I discovered, the more my heart felt compelled to pursue this lyrical process of unburdening myself, in a hard and uncompromising world. These poems were written in 1997. More volumes will

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