About the book
I just keep on writing about falling stars and flashing lights that come
to mind and sometimes, something comes forth that has a story, a message,
or a useful value. As you will quickly see when you pick it up, this book
has taken on a gamut of celestial rarities. I hope that these diverse
themes, often foreign to your mind, will broaden and stimulate your
imagination.
It seems like this offering, Waiting out in
the Yard, has taken a more narrative form than the “momentary
happenings” feeling that seemed to be prevalent in my first book, Our
Place in Time. Just as geometry is the product of both physical shapes
and mathematics, just as chronometry is the combination of astrophysics
and musical rhythm in timekeeping, so is it possible to combine poetry and
prose into a kaleidoscope of beautiful mixtures. I hope this confluence,
in my style, will be meaningful and enjoyable for you. My wish is that my
wanderings and probing will add to your involvement in, and enjoyment of,
mankind’s continuing Great Conversation.
Sample of the Work
Your Mom
Clad in a smile
her touch dismisses your fears.
Never do flags wave.
Nor do cannons ever report during her victories.
Just your quiet contentment floats
in her wake.
Midst dissolution, death, and destruction,
she listens with the patience of warm, calm sea winds,
whispers in the voice of a goddess,
and heals as if by the power of saints.
As resolute as an oak,
she nurtures each acorn,
wipes dew from each sapling
and soothes your tired, scaly bark.
Peace, love, and fairness
pray to her at the shrine of all faiths.
A determined warrior,
she carries your heart next to hers.
Demons are slain
and heroes bow at her feet.
Treasure her as if she is your most prized possession.
She is.
About the Author
K. D. Kennedy, Jr. is a husband, a father, a grandfather, a son, an
electrical wholesaler, a sports fan, a walker/hiker, a promoter of Raleigh
and especially the downtown revitalization, a producer of theater, a beach
and mountain goer, a traveler, a friend, a fundraiser, a builder of real
estate and other things, and a pretty doggone good doer! He has given up
golf, tennis, and hunting and replaced it with playing with his
grandchildren. He loves to write and finds it a medication through
meditation. Beyond that he seeks to live and let live, enjoy and let
enjoy, and observe the myriad of mindsets of all creatures. (A related
blurb under his other book, Our
Place in Time, gives more information about Mr. Kennedy)
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