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    Fear
    Fear
    Fear
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    Fear

    By Ronald E. Henshaw

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    Fear is a poetic sequence of events in one mans life, beginning with the discovery of his unconditional love for his child, the loss of that child, his descent into depression, anxiety and panic disorder, guilt complex, and prescription drug addiction as a result of that loss, and his gradual recovery. He is now able to forgive himself of his guilt for this loss, love again, and regain his ability to live his life with a new commitment to Christ..

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateFeb 7, 2014
    ISBN9781490824253
    Fear
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    Ronald E. Henshaw

    Ronald E. Henshaw was born in Houston, Texas in 1941. He lived and was raised there until he was eighteen years old and graduated from high school. In 1960, Ronald entered the US Army and served in Army Intelligence for three years in what was then West Germany. He traveled extensively in Europe for three years on various assignments to France, Italy, and Scandinavia. When he returned to the States, he entered the University of Houston, majoring in English literature. Upon leaving the university, he became an over-the-road truck driver and traveled the US for almost thirty years. Ronald Henshaw is now employed as operations manager for a pipe company in Houston, mainly concerned with the transportation operation of this company. He has been writing poetry for the majority of his life, and this book is the consummation of that work.

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      Fear - Ronald E. Henshaw

      Copyright © 2014 Ronald E. Henshaw.

      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.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2424-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2425-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902137

      WestBow Press rev. date: 02/04/2014

      Contents

      Part I – the Tragedy

      1.   Advent

      2.   Circles

      3.   The Breaking of the Light

      4.   The Stone

      5.   Early Morning

      6.   Forbidden

      7.   The Open Sea

      8.   Night. Ride. Home.

      9.   Eternal is the Night

      10.   Omen

      11.   As You Lay Down to Sleep

      12.   The Carpenter’s Tools

      13.   Absalom

      14.   A Natural Thing

      15.   The Shattered Mirror

      16.   Solitude

      17.   Cold Front

      18.   Time and the Wind

      19.   The Lotus Tree

      20.   The Beast

      21.   Nightmare

      22.   Parasite

      23.   Black

      24.   Eyes

      25.   The Sum of All My Seasons

      26.   Fear

      Part II – Epiphany

      27.   Dawn

      28.   The Center of the Circle

      29.   The Sixth Day

      30.   The Gift

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      For my wife,

      Linda McKnight Henshaw,

      the most wonderful person that I have ever known.

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      Part I

      the Tragedy

      As it was in the beginning….

      "….among Fear’s long mountains…."

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      Advent

      Haiku

      When I began to….

      When I learned to…. love….t’was then

      I began to fear.

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      Circles

      She had a flawless face, and fair, over-blown with her blond

                        hair, down all about the shoulder, diaphanous the eyes, and

      Blue, but elegant, not bold, her limbs long, the dream of Dance,

                        the nightmare of Virtue, the perfect wave unwinding on my

      Virgin shore of youth.

      Songs we heard, oh, and sang them, every word. And then,

                        among the after-wavelets, little ringlets, our love became like

      Something satellites do swing upon, touching only as we passed,

                        and at the last, released, she, moved on, to a farther star, thrusting,

      Empty and

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