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    Scent On the Wind
    Scent On the Wind
    Scent On the Wind
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    Scent On the Wind

    By Allegra Johnson

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    Allegra Johnson (1983-2013) was a born writer and poet. She demonstrated artistic and literary interests and won many prizes for fiction and poetry. Among them are twenty Scholastic Writing Awards and The New York Browning Society's Rose Riccobono Prize in Poetry. Editor of The Chapin School's literary magazine, "The Wheel," she also served on its editorial board and published fiction, poems, and artwork in its pages and in "Limelight." Her writing has also appeared in "The Apprentice Writer" of Susquehanna University and elsewhere. Interning at the "Village Voice," she became an accomplished equestrian and skater, and fell in love with music. Awarded a National Merit Scholarship, she attended UCLA and then New York University. Writing was Allegra's passion. In addition to the collected poems in "Scent on the Wind . . . .," she wrote three novels. Tragically she died at age thirty while she was enrolled in courses at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateApr 29, 2016
    ISBN9781483448022
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      Scent On the Wind - Allegra Johnson

      JOHNSON

      Copyright © 2016 Allegra A.O. Johnson.

      Interior Photographs/Art Credit: Allegra A.O. Johnson

      Back Cover: Courtesy of Allegra Johnson

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-4803-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-4802-2 (e)

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. 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.

      Front Cover: Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 04/25/2016

      Contents

      Allegra Johnson Biography

      scent on the wind

      Edvard Munch’s The Scream

      exodus

      Trust

      Quest

      Ultraviolet Hug

      Wings

      Chelsea Hotel

      The Chelsea Hotel: Sphinx

      Echo of Footsteps

      Imagine

      Gravity

      The Mona Lisa

      The Ghost of Myself

      Moonlight

      you

      San Francisco

      Start Over

      Eve Falls

      Nighttime Sky

      Compass

      Heaven or Hell?

      Lies*

      Sideways

      Holding You

      Afternoon in paradise

      January

      Palette

      Lover’s Gap

      Spinning

      The Debt Collector

      Procrastinator

      Kingdom of Momentum

      Shooting Star

      Tree of Life

      Freedom?

      Marionette

      To let it heal

      Selfish with Beauty

      Tarnished Necklace

      shades of grey

      Permanence

      Shadow

      revelation

      Meditation on Light versus Darkness

      sun and moon

      Glass

      Flawless

      flotsam and jetsam

      GPS

      Grasping for control

      train wreck

      Argonaut

      When Autumn Becomes Winter

      the beauty of containers

      Regrets

      Butterfly

      For Lily

      The Wrong of Right

      lost at sea

      The Sound of Silence

      Sunflowers

      The Hard Way

      Caught in Time

      Hearts and Spirals: In Memory of Jason

      The Thought of You

      Lifeline

      Adrift

      If only …

      Lyrics for Jas

      For all my friends who shared the journey and the music—

      —with love. Rock on!!!

      About Scent on the Wind… .

      These poems are selections from the collected poetry of Allegra Johnson. They offer a kaleidoscope of themes pivoting around universal human concerns about the meaning of life, love, loss, the search for beauty, and life after death. The majority of them date from 2010-2013. Featuring brilliant imagery that is unforgettable, they are meditations

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