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    FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE
    FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE
    FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE
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    FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE

    By ROD MARTIN

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    Explore the literary world of Rod Martin, a multi-talented author, poet, songwriter, and playwright nestled in the lush rainforest of Kahalu'u, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. With a rich background of thirty years as an educator in Hawaii Public Schools, Rod has recently retired and dedicated his pen to cr

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherROD MARTIN
    Release dateJan 3, 2024
    ISBN9798869100252
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      Book preview

      FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE - ROD MARTIN

      Faith, Love and Hope

      Rod Martin, Poet

      Copyright © 2023 by

      Rod Martin

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the author.

      ISBN: 979-8-8691-0026-9

      Printed in the United States of America

      Published by Book Marketeers.com

      This collection of Poetry is dedicated to my two grand-daughters, Emily and Julia Preis. They inspire me to keep on writing poems which began over fifty years ago.

      Acknowledgments

      I’d like to thank my high school English teacher (though I can’t remember her name) for being so complimentary of my writing abilities. She made me want to continue being a writer.

      Also, I must thank Bob Hacket for being the first person I ever met who kept a journal and encouraging me to do the same. He was a cool guy and made writing seem like a cool endeavor.

      I’d also like the thank all my buddies who wrote songs with me: Barba Rosa, Antonio Azevedo, Davo, Pierre Grill of Rendezvous Studios, Jerry Steelfox, John Morris, Gyula Schrieber, Jim Erhart, Gabe Preis, Jojo Russell, Rabbit Mackay, and Chris Woods. Song lyrics are a form of poetry I have come to love.

      And finally, I’d like to thank my loving wife, Jane Smith-Martin for 35 wonderful years of marriage, for being supportive of my writing and telling me I could spend some money to publish my first book of poetry.

      My First Poem

      I’m a hopeless teenager, but I’ll make it somehow,

      Life is for living and I’m gonna live mine now.

      Table of Contents

      For the Sake of Sound

      It Takes All Kinds

      Baby’s Day

      Things I Don’t Know About Animals

      Excuses, Excuses

      A Poem About Love

      All I Have

      Speak My Name

      A Contest with Time

      Strawflower Expectations

      Cyber-Spaced

      Wishes

      A Bad Poem?

      So Many are the Lemmings

      Anything You Want

      Teaching Up A Storm

      Flutter-By

      Doctor Duke’s Amazing Elixir of Life

      They Came To Get Me

      What She’s Not

      My Marvelous Mom

      I Wanna Love You Like That

      Betty Sue

      Straight to Jesus

      Just as in Your Beginning

      Broken Heart

      Don’t Forget Love

      Someday

      Thesaurus Poem

      Nursery Crimes

      Time After Time

      Understanding Poetry

      Might As Well Be A Tree

      The Tale of the Vorpal Snit

      The Tale of Natalie Nightingale

      For Juju by Bapa

      What I Want My Class To Be

      This Moment

      Inhale

      Sand

      Walk, Man

      The Lord’s Prayer

      First Times

      As You Will

      Be-Attitudes

      Memorable Moment

      Big Bang

      It’s Relative

      The Come Back Kid

      I Thought, I Wanted, I Hoped

      Just Say It Then

      Make Me A Meeting

      The Greatest

      Un-poem

      The Ultimate Anxiety Medicine: Fukidoll

      Tense Moments

      Fishing

      Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

      Check Out This Communication Situation

      Optimism

      Reasons for Giving Up Hope

      I Lift My Light

      I Like That

      Mistakes

      Life’s Moments

      What Wings are For

      Life Gives Us Challenges

      Genius Has Its Limits

      Famous For What I Say

      My Next Poem

      How To Do Time

      Life’s Greatest Things

      Halawa Prison Blues

      Never Chased That Dragon

      For Brother Coonsey

      Nick O. Teen

      A Broken Toy

      Question Authority

      Worked For Me

      Native American

      All Over The Map

      If I Were If

      Sparkler Boy

      Money

      Yesterday’s Melodies

      Wire and Water

      Shout this Poem

      What is Truth?

      There’s A River Of Lava Light

      Stupid is As Stupid Does

      We Think We’re So Great…

      Find Joy

      Keep It Short

      Advice to Self

      Shark Park

      My Answer

      Poem As Prayer, Not Out There

      On Fire

      So Many Religions

      God Said, I’m Lonely.

      As I am Driving

      Blue Collar Blues

      My Marvelous Mother

      Man On The Moon

      Someday There Will Be Love

      Godspell

      I Believe

      Love Those Love Haikus

      Honeymood

      Two Hawks

      Oh Canada

      Each Day’s Rebirth

      I Wanna Love You Like This

      Grow Up and Show Up

      The Internet

      The Most Important Things

      When The Leaves Leave

      The Words I Spin

      Changin’

      The Poet’s Prayer

      For the Sake of Sound

      Oh, you know…

      It may seem strange

      The way I can rearrange words

      To say something

      Or nothing at all

      Like scrawl on the wall if you will, and still,

      The poet is free

      No, I will not be confined by my commentary

      Not the least bit bound

      I speak for the sake of sound

      Bursting around your ear-bones

      Like headphones filled with rock and roll

      An imaginary stroll on a tightrope of time 

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