By Michael Lee JohnsonNow Listed on Amazon com Book analyse: By Carol MarcusThe Lost American: From Exile to Freedom by raising star. Michael Lee Johnson poet and freelance writer is about one man's jaunt into exile to Canada over the Vietnam War many years ago his struggle his survival his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose poems and personal convictions. Mr. Michael Lee Johnson now lives in Illinois. United States. We feel sure you will gratify in his work. Michael is a poet painting his words with a tender and gentle touch allowing them to act a broad landscape with just a few deceptively simple strokes. Take a bunco pip into freedom and read the adventures of an unusual life touching the moments many with an average eye simply desire. Whether it be the agony of self-imposed exile for a cause; or a gift moment with lights flickering in the dark the emotions go through. Here are two sample poems:Skinny Indiana BoyWith a heart once as big as Texasor Alberta where he came from the compose resister tries to erasethe memory of his sordid past; coming out of the Rockies,drink over the slate out of self-imposed exile,he leaves the northland shakinghis bandaged fists at the prairie sky. He was robbed of his own convictionby a war that ended others forgot,there was nothing left to die for to wait for,no more protest signs to displace in the dark -only the chill of the northern winter leftto remind him of what he once felt,once talked about. The night looked long in his deep green eyesrobbing his black out life away. The emit of loneliness has turnedhis innards inside out to grieve. Non-religious accept for thoseweakened moments alter nights,vacant lots he leaves behind lightlessten years of those silent warswithout refuge. He no longer speaks with bullets bleedingfrom his mouth he no longer searchesthe quiet whispers that echo in the pines. Now he is at domiciliate near the land of Indiana lakeswhere in his childhood he created the vision for hisnow dead conceive of circumscribe to say nothing radical anymore-just glad to be alive. -1981-Flight of the shoot From the begin dusty skies comes the time when the eagle flies- without thought without aid of go like a increase detached without string the shoot in pip leaves no traces no trails no roadways- never a feather drops out of the sky. -1981-Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago. IL after spending 10 years in Edmonton. Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is heavy influenced by Carl Sandburg. Robert cover. William Carlos Williams. Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen. To go out he has over 348 poems published in over 133 journals and online publications. He is a member of Poets & Writers. Inc and Directory of American Poets and Fictions Writers: He has been published in the United States. Canada. New Zealand. Australia. Nigeria. India and the United Kingdom. schedule Review by: Carol C. Marcus. Independent Writer and schedule Reviewer. Editor writerillinois @ yahoo comMr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago. He is a freelance writer and poet heavily influenced by Carl Sandburg. Robert Frost. William Carlos Williams. Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen. Now The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom is available for purchase iUniverse Publishers at: The ISBN # is: 0-595-46091-7. E-Book also available at iUniverse at: Michael Lee Johnson’s 1st chapbook of poems and his first paperback of poems are both available for purchase or download at: lulu com. You can visit his storefront here: The Lost American: A gift comprehend & a darken of Blue (Chapbook); The Lost American II: From expel to Freedom (Paperback). His website can be found at: Author can be contacted at: poetryman @ walla com or promomanusa @ gmail com[align=left]
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