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Donald Jeffries

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I Started out writing songs- never quite became the singer-songwriter I thought I would. I've written lots of poetry, and I'm very proud of it. However, there isn't much of a market for that, so it's probably destined to remain something I share with family and friends. I Started writing what would become "The Unreals" over 25 years ago. Moral- never give up on your dreams!

"The Unreals" revolves around a young man searching for his grandfather, who has mysteriously disappeared. There are lots of surrealistic characters, tons of conspiracy theories, and liberal doses of social and political satire. The reader encounters everything from imaginary freeway exits leading nowhere to time-traveling cornfields, on the way to a lengthy adventure in...more


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Average rating: 3.79 · 14 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
The Unreals
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007
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Some Of My Poems (Poetry)
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Description: Here are a few of my many poems. If there is interest, I can post others.

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Ambrose Bierce
“I was born to poor because of honest parents.”
Ambrose Bierce

Robert Frost
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Dirge Without Music"

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost.

The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Charles Fort
“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”
Charles Fort, Lo!

Ambrose Bierce
“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Donald Hi Goodread Friends,

My new blog, which has the snappy name I Can't Believe It's Not A Blog, can be accessed here:
http://donaldjeffries.blogspot.com/

I hope you'll all check it out!


William Hello Donald,
Thanks for the add.

William Elliott Hazelgrove
www.billhazelgrove.com Rocket Man


Andrea Kulman Hi & thank you for being a friend on Good Reads!


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Thanks for the friendship, Donald!

Here’s wishing you a nifty new 2008 filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

I thought I'd let you know that my novel “Vacation” has been nominated for the best Horror Novel of 2007 in the Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll. So far it's ranked 4th.

In case you're interested in voting, feel free to visit the website here:
http://www.critters.org/predpoll/nove...

Thanks again!

-Jeremy :)

PS—if you do decide to vote, you should know that you need to validate the vote by clicking on the validation link in the email they send you.


Donald K.S.R.,

Thanks for still being my friend! I am going to post a picture asap. Have to find just the right one.


message 1: by Karey

Karey Where's your picture? Put one up here! It feels much more comfortable from my end to have a face to go with your name.

I usually don't make friends with those who don't have a picture, unless they are muslim women, who for personal reasons choose not to.

But since you're so apparently well-read, I chose to invite you to be my friend. So, let's see who you are! Thanks, Donald. Have a wonderful day ;o)


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