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Jeff Johnston has released another short book of long poems in
​LARGE PRINT entitled MOMENTS OF TIME


​Thank you for picking up this book and spending your time with my moments.

I write organically and therefore am not ever sure where my free-flowing words will go. I have no plan. No outline. No system. What I do have is time. No matter where I am at any moment, the words will come alive. Something I see, or hear, or envision, and boom! They are born in my mind. I write on my phone and until I am inputting, they circle constantly in my head, seeking release.

Time is something we all share. No matter income bracket, place of birth, ancestry, or who we may know, we all have the same twenty-four hours in a day.

Time. The constant.

May your time be pleasant with the awareness we all have available to us.
​

Until next time…
​

Jeff Johnston October 6, 2022

SAMPLE POEM FROM MOMENTS OF TIME
​9:00 In Nashville

Its nine o'clock
In Nashville
Ten o'clock right here
The moon and clouds
Are beautiful
I close my eyes
And disappear

Do you get to see
The sky at night
My dear
Do you always know
That we are far
Yet always near

Time is a conundrum
Clock time
Guides our days
But inside Being
No time
Finds truth in
Many ways


​


​​Tap into the light
It's there forever more
Sometimes you may have to
Walk through one more door

Oh it can be daunting
The past will hunt
You down
The future will produce
A chalkboard finger sound
 
But

In this exact moment
Where you and I
Partake
Life is exponential
In all that we will make


​​Hold yourself up
With hands from
All around and
Know that they are there
When life is falling down

Hear the quiet whispers
Of laughter you recall
Soon it will be present
And shining for us all

Breathe it in so deeply
Exhale a cleansing pace
This then is new safety
We all give awesome face

Oh just you imagine
Then soon it will be clear
Joy and happy fun
Is for all of us
My dear...
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Jeff Johnston has released another book of long poems entitled VACATED ROOMS.

"Thank you for picking up this book. I hope you and yours are well. As I write this introduction, the Coronavirus is alive and changing the world we knew. Once again “history” is being made. But I believe history is always being made. Our world is our perception, and as our thoughts vacillate between a darkness and a lightness, or vice versa, “history” is made. We are the creators. We are the historians. We are the ones that speak. Whatever language we may use. I write poetry. Peace love and light…"

Jeff Johnston
​March 19, 2020

SAMPLE POEM FROM: VACATED ROOMS
​I Ponder

How many walls
Have I leaned up against
Pondering my next move
Wondering if the plan
I have now
Needs to be rearranged...

Modified...
Scrapped...
Forgotten...

Or someday looking back
Will I realize
I was at a tipping point
And with wisdom
Continued on...

Am I currently
In a plan?
And if so
Do I remember
What exactly it is...
When it started...

Do I see
"The writing on the wall"
Or is it unclear
Due to weathering times...
Graffiti or
Enlightenment?

So many times
I believe we let
Circumstances
Decide our next move...


​But...
​
​Are the circumstances
Results of a focused
Vision
And the universe
Responding
To who we truly are being?

"Live and learn"
"This too shall pass"
"Mindfulness"
"Use the force"
"Another day another dollar"
"Que Sera Sera"

Walls...
To lean on
To go around
To stop forward movement
To build strength
To bust through
To protect...

From what?

In this moment
As I lean against
This wall...

I ponder...
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Jeff Johnston released his next book of "long poems".

​CAN YOU HEAR THE SUNRISE? takes us on a journey of the everyday introspection and memories that exist inside of him...and "request" to be released on the page. Views of the past...views of the future...views of today...views of the mind and soul...put into his own words.

​Paperback and Kindle




​AMAZON REVIEW: By Amazon Customer EMOTION (August 26, 2019) 5 out of 5 stars
“I started reading and had to share with my wife. She began to cry after just a few pages. It touched her and she is very happy for the author.”

Sample Poem from: Can You Hear The Sunrise?
​The Sound

The sound of rain
Infiltrates...
Modern man
Incubates...
Answers are written
In a language that
Side by side
Is not understood...
Where do we go
Where our mind and body
May become alive
And others do not
Become bees in a hive...
Defending their queen
With no logical base
Breaking the mirror
We disfigure the face
Past and present
Racing to explain
This magical moment
As we ride on this train...
Stations go by
In the blink of an eye
And still we sit down
And wonder why...
Why...
Now let us not pretend
That what we all do
Has got a meaningful end...





​​We are struggling
In water only up
To our knees...
And yet...
Brother please
Is broadcast daily
Amongst those in the street
Seeking and searching
Maybe another to meet...
And then...
Growing and learning
And massaging a life
To join with some jelly
A husband and wife... 
When we are speaking
Who hears our words
People malignant
As oil drenched birds...
Oh we mean well
Yes?
And yet...
A call a text a message
Is generated
And all at once
Discombobulated...
The end
The beginning?


​​Sorcerer's brew
May vilify the likes
Of a me and a you...
Whispers on the wind
Will explain what to do...
Stars misaligned
To create a big dipper
But will anyone ever
Fit the glass slipper?
Lo and behold
The stories are written
A boy and a girl
Who both become smitten
Seasons will fall
Behind the curtain
And luxury boxes
Will become uncertain
Though the valley
Will all at once be a flood
Vampires exist
On one another's blood...
Stake a claim
But don't cross the track
A silver bullet
May be back in black
A hand reaches out
Attached to a freak
Stealing your jar
Is it time to speak?
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Jeff Johnston releases his compilation of his first three books of long poems:
So Far...Compilation

Chapter Titles are:
Philosophical
Wonder
Questioning
Anxiety
Confusion
Love
Wife
Mom
Friends
Daughter
Dad
Hopefulness
Miscellaneous
Anticipation
Advice
Room 916
Sadness
Loneliness
Darkness
​Misery

Sample Poem from: So Far...Compilation
Outside Sensations
I sit in my room
Watching the sun slowly set
The outside sensations
Trying hard not to forget
The sound of a bird or
A car passing by
The smell of cutgrass
The buzz of a fly
The feel of the breeze
On my skin, through my hair
The looks on the faces of
People without a care
A baby crying
Going by in a stroller
A man playing music
To earn him a dollar
The honk of a horn
The crosswalk timer
The smells that emit
From an old greasy diner



​The sounds of the fans 

At a sporting event 
The righteous few
Claiming we should repent 
The fumes from the bus 
That’s going uptown 
The laughter that comes 
From the corner street clown 
The sights that you see 
From just people watching 
The high school band 
Friday night marching 
The sound of a puddle 
Being splashed by a child 
The sound of a dog 
Running fast and wild 
The simple colors of 
A cross streetlight 
The angry pedestrian 
Who’s picking a fight ​
​
​The neon signs 
Blazing into our view 
The kitchen aroma 
Of grandmother’s stew 
The chill in the air 
As the sun fades away 
The church door opens
To the people that pray 
Someday soon 
When I’m leaving this place 
The outside sensations 
I will wholly embrace 
I will try and remember 
To enjoy all that’s there 
Behind these four walls 
I am so unaware
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Jeff Johnston has released his next book of long poems: it's not black and white

"It seems to me that the older I get, the more the world becomes grey…or cloudy…or opaque…none the less…
​it’s not black and white…if it ever was.
Absolutes of any sort seem to fade away.
What may be certain on a Tuesday is completely invalid by the following weekend.
I believe that having an open mind can be related to not seeing everything, or anything, as black and white.
Society, parents, schools, employers, and many more have been telling me that the world and universe I live in are indeed black and white.
I respectively disagree.
Here are some musings for your enjoyment."
The Author

​AMAZON REVIEW: By Amazon Customer KRISTOFER (March 17, 2018) 5 out of 5 stars
"If you're not already reading his work, you need to start. Jeff Johnston has a way with words that makes my day move more smoothly. You will not be disappointed with any of his work. Highly recommended!!!!! Do not delay, get this book today!"

Sample Poem from: it's not black and white
​Randomness
 
life…
life is…
life is so…
life is so random…
 
we move here and there
we work somewhere…
we travel this road or that
sometimes never
                        looking back…
we meet this person
we rub shoulders with
another…
                        we cross a room
or a country to say
hello to someone
that has caught our eye…
 
we listen to words
spoken around us…
some we hear some
we don’t
                        some we won’t…



​​what we take away some
times we don’t have a say…
life is so
                        random…
paths crossing lives
mingling day time
and night…
 
life is so random…
 
and yet we seek order…
we seek straight lines…
we seek sense of it all…
we seek
                        our call…
life is so random…
life is so…
life is…
life…
BOOKS OF LONG POEMS
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AMAZON REVIEWS OF LONG POEMS
"I started reading and had to share with my wife.
She began to cry after just a few pages.
It touched her and she is very happy for the author."
Amazon Customer on August 26, 2019
​Can You Hear The Sunrise?
​
​"Why do you not own this already? If you're not already reading his work, you need to start. Jeff Johnston has a way with words that makes my day move more smoothly. You will not be disappointed with any of his work. Highly recommended!!!!! Do not delay, get this book today!"
Kristofer on March 17, 2018
it’s not black and white
 
"Always on my mind!! This book opened my mind, allowing it to go places it had never been. Think, question, feel, remember... there's not an emotion left untouched. Plain, simple, honest, and sometimes raw, this poet touched my heart and pierced my soul. This one will be hard to forget."
Sandra G. Ostrander on January 23, 2018
So Far…Book 1
REVIEWS OF LONG POEMS​
​

"Ooh, I love this!!! Thank you sooo much for sharing it with me!"
(Messenger: Seconds Come First...poem)
JANE R

"That was lovely. Thank you!"
(Messenger: Seconds Come First...poem)
BELINDA K

"Beautiful"
(Messenger: Seconds Come First...poem)
LANE M

"Very well done!"
(Email: Seconds Come First...poem)
JACK J

"Like the format and the idea. Especially like the first and last stanzas."
(LinkedIn: Randomness...poem)
JOYCE K

"That's amazing!"

(Facebook: Walls No More Exist...poem)

LANE M
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"Wow, your poem has a depth of soul rising to the surface."
(LinkedIn: Another One's "Hi"...poem)
BERYL P
​
"The MORE is the key word. Be happy just as you are."
(LinkedIn: Another One's "Hi"...poem)
PANMELYS

“Great poem!”
(LinkedIn: Another One’s “Hi”...poem)
MARIE JK
 
“…your imagery improves as it progresses, your emotional phrasing begins to be more subtle and more relatable. It ends well…”
(LinkedIn: Another One’s “Hi”...poem)
STEPHANIE R
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