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    My Sentiments Exactly: Poetry and Musings
    My Sentiments Exactly: Poetry and Musings
    My Sentiments Exactly: Poetry and Musings
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    My Sentiments Exactly: Poetry and Musings

    By William P. Jacobs III

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    If you read most of the material in this book, you will probably get a pretty good idea how my brain operates.
    While these writings will not give you a chronological view of my life, they werent meant to do so. I will leave that for a biography or eulogy.
    A biography or eulogy this isnt. Those will have to wait until another day and another writer.
    But really, this is me.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 27, 2007
    ISBN9781465315557
    My Sentiments Exactly: Poetry and Musings
    Author

    William P. Jacobs III

    William Plumer Jacobs, III, is a retired business man who, with his wife Erna, lives in Clinton, S. C. Jacobs was born in Clinton and has spent most of his life there with the exception of four years in the US Army during World War II and two years in New York as General Manager of America Lawn Tennis Magazine. In 1972, in anticipation on his retirement years he took up Art, specifically Watercolor. Then, remembering his college days when he gained a major in English he began to write poetry. Although he edited a history of Laurens County, S. C. and was advisor to other such efforts, this is his first book.

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      My Sentiments Exactly - William P. Jacobs III

      Copyright © 2007 by William P. Jacobs, III.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in

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      in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Thinking Out Loud

      Thanks

      What’s in A Name?

      NATURE

      After the tide

      Awaiting Return of Fishing Man

      Breath of Spring

      Destiny

      Hike

      October Hike

      Sunrise O’er the City

      The Painting

      Tides

      We Call It Rain

      Waking Marsh

      Yesterday, the Wind

      PEOPLE

      Christoforo Colombo

      Concentration

      Dreamin’ Agin

      Memories

      Exhilaration

      Arrest

      Bud

      Curtis

      Idea

      Kim

      Marc

      On Fanning One’s Self

      Inspiration

      Pink Shoes

      Rumpole of the Baileys

      Jack Nicholson

      Spitting

      Temptress

      ANIMALS AND PETS

      Matt’s New Beat

      American Robin

      Barn Swallow

      Furtive Feline

      Rain

      Mockingbird

      Nuthatch

      Purple Finch

      Red-bellied Woodpecker

      Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

      Souls

      Tiny Chauvinist

      Four Kittens

      Tommy (or is it Tanya?) Titmouse

      Twin Wrens

      LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

      Mother

      A True Friend

      Cindy

      Gary

      Love Affair

      One

      Out of the Night

      Wind Song

      The Ballard of Laura Jo

      FAITH AND BELIEF

      An Ordinary Night

      An Artist’s Prayer

      Cemetery

      Haunting Within

      Legacy

      Make Believe Miracle

      O, Great Creator

      On Viewing a Painting

      Prayer for Peace

      Sono Io

      MISCELLANEOUS

      Moonface

      Doorknob

      Alma Mater

      Beta Blocker

      Chocolate Ice Box Cake

      Come Back, O Youth

      Fun Night

      Pam

      Procrastination

      Rebuttal

      Routine

      Suicide

      Scots Fences

      Travelers

      What Is Poetry?

      Where Is She?

      Who’s Who

      Windows of the future

      Words

      To my four Grandchildren:

      Will, Laura Susan, Catherine and Jake, plus my new Granddaughter, Ashley (Will’s wife) all of whom have supplied pleasure, inspiration and encouragement to their author/poet Granddad.

      Foreword

      William Plumer Jacobs, III has a genius for elevating the everyday pieces of life into poetry. The lightness, the flow, the clarity of his works sends the reader onto the next poem effortlessly.

      Jacobs is a master of observation, of looking at the obvious and lifting it into the sphere of human drama.

      His poetry reflects his personality, his ability to radiate wherever he is, notice something interesting, and share his talent.

      His love of nature, deep faith, glowing personality, and dry humor are continually present in his writing.

      P3, as he is affectionately known, agreed to put together this first volume of his work. This artist and poet from Clinton, S. C. can now be enjoyed by the world!

      When you finish this book you will wish for more.

      Carrie Henderson

      Thinking Out Loud

      If you read most of the material in this book, you will probably get a pretty good idea of how my brain operates.

      As a matter of fact when I began to think out loud, the words took on the appearance of poetry.

      Therefore, I went back to school (evening classes on poetry for adults), two semesters under two very different teachers.

      I had already been told that I had a knack for poetic utterances, and my study of English in college came rushing out in force, saying, Write it down William, say it the way you feel it.

      While these writings will not give you a chronological view of my life, they weren’t meant to do so. I will leave that for a biography or eulogy.

      A biography or eulogy this isn’t. Those will have to wait until another day and another writer.

      But really, this is me.

      Thanks

      I have a hard time keeping myself on a straight line toward the end of a project, even after I set my mind to the task. I’m not certain what that is called but had it not been for friends and family who urged me on and lent helping hands, I might never have gotten this book published.

      So, I owe them my grateful thanks.

      First is my wife, Erna, for putting up with my strange ways, and furnishing a love which kept me at it in spite of myself. Carrie Henderson, who wrote the foreword, has been a helpful fan since the

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