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    A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot
    A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot
    A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot
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    A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot

    By Maria Psanis

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    Ms.Psanis gives us a full 180 degree of emotions in her new book, a Child, a Dream, and a Sling-Shot. She goes from the light-hearted poems of fond memories of her childhood to the painful
    periods of life we all must face with poems on death, war and sickness. Her love of life, God, family and friends are prominent in her work as is her deep concern for the injustice so prevalent in our world today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 14, 2008
    ISBN9780595632367
    A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot
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    Maria Psanis

    MARIA PSANIS was born and spent her early childhood years in Athens, Greece. She immigrated to America with her family at the age of 12. Ms. Psanis received a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Hartford, and an associate degree from the Hartford College for Women. Ms. Psanis is a clinical psychotherapist in private practice in Simsbury, Connecticut.

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      A Child, a Dream and a Sling-Shot - Maria Psanis

      A Child, a Dream, and a Sling-shot

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      A Child, a Dream, and a Sling-shot

      Copyright © 2008 by Maria Psanis

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      Poetry Books by Maria Psanis

      ♦ The Free Inhibited Child (1980)

      ♦ Thoughts, Love and You (1981)

      ♦ Immortal Shadow (1983)

      ♦ Today’s Tears, Tomorrow’s Laughter (1984)

      ♦ Searching for You (1989)

      ♦ Breaking the Cycle (1997)

      ♦ Asomatos Erotas (Bodiless Love) (2000)

      ♦ I Forgot to Ask God (2001)

      ♦ Agapi ke Thanatos (Love and Death) (2003)

      ♦ a Child, a Dream, and a Sling-shot (2008)

      Address all communications to: www.poetmaria.com

      To my birthplace, Greece,

      for giving me my spirit.

      And to my adopted mother, America,

      for giving me the opportunities

      to be who I am today.

      Contents

      Give Me

      It’s Not Fear

      You Become My Shadow

      My Grandmother

      You

      The City

      Silence

      If

      The Marionette

      Your Name

      I’ve Learned

      I’ll Die

      Soldiers

      How

      Traumatized Heroes

      Where is God?

      Humbled

      Hope

      I Remember

      Freedom

      Fearless

      Tango

      One Morning

      You’re Not

      Nine Years Old

      Plague

      What I Love

      Your Shadow

      How and Why

      Celebrate

      Gypsies

      Immortal

      Your Face

      Death

      Where?

      Protagonist

      Predestined

      Shepherd

      Your Eyes

      Jukebox

      Chase

      Butcher Shop

      American Mom

      Funeral

      a Child, a Dream, and a Sling-Shot

      I Have

      You Tell Me

      Two Countries

      Animals

      Greek Friends

      Cancer Patient

      Holding Your Hand

      Eros

      What or Who

      The Village

      Seashore

      Light and Hope

      Loom

      Escaping in Silence

      I Don’t Know

      Traitor

      Tears

      Someone

      Unique

      Waiting

      Sick Boy

      Solitude

      Consoled

      It’s Been A While

      Don’t Know

      Holding Tightly

      Give Me

      Give me light from your eyes

      so I can see night’s darkness,

      so I can see stars embracing clouds,

      so I can see tears dripping from the moon.

      And you scream no, go away,

      can’t tolerate sharing your silence.

      Give me color from your song

      so I can paint with rainbow your wound,

      so I can draw with a brush wild flowers,

      so I can whisper the words that ignore you.

      And you scream no, go away,

      don’t want me to hear your soul.

      Give me a caress

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