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    Pennies from Heaven: Poems 2003-2010
    Pennies from Heaven: Poems 2003-2010
    Pennies from Heaven: Poems 2003-2010
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    Pennies from Heaven: Poems 2003-2010

    By L.E. Ward

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    L.E. Ward was born July 5, 1944, as Leon Edgar Ward. Pennies from Heaven is his seventh published book of poems, and ninth collection of poetry, containing over 100 poems, written since 2003. His books reflect his lifetime interests: Immersion in the past, both personal and cultural; a criticism of war, intolerance,
    and materialism; a love of the arts, eros, and human times and relationships, including family, friends, and lovers. Pennies from Heaven, like its predecessors, looks askance at violence, greed, and fanaticism, yet also concerns itself with beauty, art, and humanism.

    Ward, a former university teacher of literature, has also had a prolific prose writing career as an essayist and contributing editor to national film periodical, among others. His writing has received many honors, awards, and award nominations. His books are dedicated to the memory of his beloved parents, Leon Earl Ward (1898-1970) and Lillian Estelle Mager Ward (1908-1999).
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 29, 2010
    ISBN9781450258111
    Pennies from Heaven: Poems 2003-2010
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    L.E. Ward

    L.E. Ward was born July 5, 1944, as Leon Edgar Ward. “Pennies from Heaven” is his seventh published book of poems, and ninth collection of poetry, containing over 100 poems, written since 2003. His books reflect his lifetime interests: Immersion in the past, both personal and cultural; a criticism of war, intolerance, and materialism; a love of the arts, eros, and human times and relationships, including family, friends, and lovers. “Pennies from Heaven,” like its predecessors, looks askance at violence, greed, and fanaticism, yet also concerns itself with beauty, art, and humanism. Ward, a former university teacher of literature, has also had a prolific prose writing career as an essayist and contributing editor to national film periodical, among others. His writing has received many honors, awards, and award nominations. His books are dedicated to the memory of his beloved parents, Leon Earl Ward (1898-1970) and Lillian Estelle Mager Ward (1908-1999). .

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      Pennies from Heaven - L.E. Ward

      Copyright © 2010 by L Ward

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      In memory of my mother,

      Lillian Estelle Mager Ward,

      My lifetime best friend

      Whose patience was heaven-sent,

      Whose loyalty never wavered

      And in appreciation of friends

      Donald Aucutt

      John Henley

      Dr. Charles Hanson, Ph. D.

      And Stephen G. Durham

      Other Books of Classic Poetry

      By L. E. Ward, published by I.universe

      The Collected Poems of L. E. Ward

      Portraits of Life

      The Child Who Loved Movies

      The Land Within

      The Secret Life of L. E. Ward

      The Country of the Heart

      Contents

      PREFACE

      One Book, My Book

      The Lighthouse

      Lament

      Vignettes

      Citizen Kane (194l)

      Sunset Blvd. (1950)

      The Parade of Life

      All About Eve (1950)

      Degas: The Absinthe Drinker

      The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

      Hollywood Heaven

      In Memory of Janet Leigh

      Pennies from Heaven

      Ghosts

      The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

      Gods

      The Old Days

      Lot’s Wife

      The Great Fire of London, 1666

      Autumn Song

      Housewifery

      In Memory of D.H. Lawrence

      Delacroix: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

      Willinck; Simon the Stylite

      Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning

      Edward Hopper; Gas, A Painting, 1940

      Portraits of 19th Century Young Men

      The Ballad of Lost Players

      Peyton Place (1957)

      Home for the Holidays, 1954

      Blue Xmas

      The Old Masters

      Signs

      Heaven

      The summer of 1962

      Honore Daumier: The Third Class Carriage

      Eros at McDonald’s

      In Memory of Thom Gunn, Gay Poet

      Travel

      Perfect

      Adonis

      Imagine

      A Journey to Toronto, 2007

      Music

      Mood Music

      Graffiti

      Milk

      The Mortal Heaven

      Eros

      Sheet Music

      Homophobia—Provinces of

      Memories of the College Gymnasium,

      Early 1960s

      Singer—in Memory of Miss Peggy Lee

      Images

      Truths

      Domestic

      In memory of C.P. Cavafy

      Holbein the Younger: The Madonna

      Of Burgomaster Meyer

      FDR

      Dante

      The Jester—Bob Hope (1903—2003)

      The Darling

      Eros

      A Pole Dancer—Toronto, 2004, Remington’s

      Dido—Queen of Carthage; Lover of Aeneas

      In Memory of Susan Hayward

      Praise

      The Hollywood Outside of Hollywood

      Autumn Song

      The Train, 1930’s

      Cinema Verite

      An Invitation to the Voyage

      Durer: Rabbit

      Prophecy

      Five and Dime

      An Xmas Memory, 1952

      The MGM Musicals

      Edgar

      On Moonlight Bay (1951)

      House of Wax (1953)

      Domestic II

      Ways That Are Dark—In Memory of

      Val Lewton

      Spring Song

      The Godfather Trilogy

      The Last Picture Show (1971)

      The Hypochondriac Gossip Mailman

      Savonarola

      By Them Who Dwell in Darkness

      Beyond the Forest (1949)

      Mildred Pierce (1945)

      Tea and Sympathy (1956)

      The Legend of John Wayne

      The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

      Cabaret (1972)

      White Christmas (1954)

      The House by the River (1939-)

      Forever Amber (1947)

      Life with Mother

      Vera Cruz (1954)

      Eros in Hollywood

      As Time Goes By,

      The Music of the Years Gone By

      Reflections

      Commerce

      Losses

      Gone with the Wind (1939)

      In Memory of Veronica Lake

      In Memory of Grace Kelly

      Middle School

      The Author and His Book:

      PREFACE

      A year or so ago, I encountered a mechanical wizard named Zoltan the Magnificent in an antique store, who predicted, You will come into a great fortune. Remember, a fortune need not mean money.

      I always loved my writing, which I began at home in seventh grade. I love my six

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