All That Rhymes

As the Mood Prescribes

by: James E. Cox

ISBN: 978-1-4259-6646-1(sc)

As the Mood Prescribes is a collection of poems that will appeal to the reader’s every mood. The initial quatrain implies that colors can tint our moods, but the corollary is that our moods taint our milieu. Both propositions lead our thoughts in controlled directions and each mood/color suggests a different remedy—even if it is merely a placebo.

Should the mood color the psyche red, blue, green, gold, gray, or shades thereof, the remedy for the mind’s dilemma must soothe, support or stimulate, as the reader requires.

I have chosen my poems of love, logic, humor, pensive and personal reflections as thAs The Mood Prescribes  is available through AuthorHouse Publishing.

Toe medium to deliver the elixir. Be aware, though, that the poems in each section can exhibit more than one color. As an example, poems of love can tint with the gold of exhilaration or the gray of rejection.

Availability

As The Mood Prescribes was published by Authorhouse in December 2006. It contains eighty-five poems in multiple poetic forms in 138 pages. It is available in soft cover and e-book format through Authorhouse, Amazon, Kindle and local bookstores. To place your order use As The Mood Prescribes, by James E. Cox, ISBN: 978-1-4259-6646-1, as required. 

The following poem is a Spenserian Stanza contained in the book:

To My Wife

 How often when lost in my reverie,

my thoughts resurrect loves of yesteryear.

I ponder on all that they meant to me

and all that had made them so loved and dear.

But as these figments coalesce and clear,

I understand my attraction to you.

You’re the composite of all they’d endear…

the sum of the loves that my heart felt true.

You are the one for which I searched…

my quest is through.