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“…you have been designated Godfather of… the National Newspaper of Peru (“The Voice of the People… is the Voice of God”)… in merit to your fine virtues and profession of service that you have shown throughout your exemplary life that everybody appreciates,

admires, and exalts.”

Director, Apolinario Mayta Inga & Manager Rivera Flores, October 7, 2009

In My Time

Thirty Poems (Volume Four)

  Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.

                                         Andean Scholar, and Three Times Poet Laureate

                    Parts in English and Spanish, Illustrated

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    In My Time

     (Thirty Poems, Volume Four)

       Copyright © 2010 by Dennis L. Siluk

              All Illustrations by Dlsiluk, except if otherwise indicated

All English translated into Spanish by

Rosa Peñaloza de Siluk

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Dr. Siluk’s books are available: United Arab Emirates, Australia, Belgium, Bahrain, Switzerland, China, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa (to include: throughout the United States and Canada, and England)

“…you have been designated Godfather of… the National Newspaper of Peru (“The Voice of the People… is the Voice of God”)… in merit to your fine virtues and profession of service that you have shown throughout your exemplary life that everybody appreciates, admires, and exalts.”        Director, Apolinario Mayta Inga & Manager Rivera Flores, October 7, 2009

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your short story, “Uni’s Street Corner” in Lake Area Business this month. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece!!        Gloria Stafford, Minnetrista, MN

"I received your book "Last Autumn and Winter"... It's beautiful, you have really captured Minnesota. And I love that it is in Spanish and English...

Thanks so much for sending this treasure to me Dennis".

Gail Weber, Editor and Owner of "Exploring Tosca" A Minnesota Cultural Magazine (05-25-2010)



            The Synergy Group Recommended Reading (April 2010) pertaining to topics on Behavioral and

        Emotional Health, the book:   The Path to Sobriety…” by Dr. Dennis L. Siluk

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C o n t e n t s

† The cross indicates the work is in:

Parts in English and Spanish

Winter Poems

1— Many Windows

((A Poem - "Bringing it together" with Commentary on Form and Structure)

(Written: 2-2010; from the book “The Cotton Belt”))) Published in the cultural

Midwestern magazine “Exploring Tosco,” Winter Issue, 2010.

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/many-windows.html

2— Wounded and Maimed:

Coming Home Soldiers Poetic Prose

((Mpls, MN) (observations at the VA Hospital)) No: 2711/5-29-2010

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/wounded-and-maimed-coming-home-soldiers.html

3—Octopus Waters

(No: 2689, Written: 5-15-2010) Jewish form

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/octopus-waters-poem.html

4—the smudged Name on the Book

(No: 2688, Written: 5-14-2010) Jewish form

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/smudged-name-on-book-jewish-style-poem.html

5— the House of Tomorrow

((Dedicated to Cody and Shawn) (written 4-2010))

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/house-of-tomorrow-poem-by-dlsiluk.html

6—Winter Smoke

No: 2692 ((5-16-2010) (dedicated to Mike and Zaneta H.))/CE

A Donkeyland Poem

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/winter-smoke.html

7—Peacocks and Vultures

No: 2694/Ref: Lima, Peru 5-25-2010/DT

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/peacocks-and-vultures-for-my-neighobrs.html

Spring Poems

9—Common Sides

No: 69/1981 (North Poetry Review)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/common-sides.html

10—Stars over Germany

((A set of Germany poems, 1970s)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/stars-over-germany-selected-german.html

11—Guard Duty on a Dusty Road

Written while in Vietnam on guard duty (1971) never before published

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/guard-duty-on-dusty-road.html

12—I See the Boys

((Of Donkeyland) (Written: 4-2008)) From the Manuscript “The Donkeyland Hooligans”

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-see-boys.html

13—the Fifth Moon

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifth-moon.html

14— Midnight Waters

(A night for Hell’s Gatekeeper)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/midnight-waters.html

Poems from my Youth

15—Old Man Jay

[Poem: Written 1961/thirteen years old/; poem number #8, Como Park Jr High School]

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-man-jay.html

16—Lord Canary

Written: 1962 ((Poem No: 9) (Como Park Jr. High School))

Fourteen years old, written while in class

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/lord-canary.html

17—Grandmother’s Plot

(Dedicated to Ella Siluk—1900-1933)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/grandmothers-plot.html

18—Spring Cleaning

(A 1960s, Minnesota Poem)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/spring-cleaning.html

Fall and Nostalgia Poems

19—In My Time

(Written at the Chicago Airport, in Poetic Prose) (Unpublished, written: 2-2006)) †

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/19-english-version-in-my-time-written.html

20—the Lone Pillars

((New World Depression: written 3-2009) (From the book “Men with Torrent Women”))

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/lone-pillars.html

21—Lights, like Fires

((In the Tunnels with the Miners) (in the Mines of Volcan)); in the manuscript: “Poetry of the Miners”)

Written while in Cerro de Pasco, Peru; 7- 2007 †

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/lights-like-fires.html

22—Nostalgia

A set of Poems on Grieving a Mother

(Written in 2007, four years after her death

Dedicated to Elsie T. Siluk, 1920-2003) †

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/nostalgia.html

23—A Minnesota Autumn’s Tale

No: 2697 (5-20-20109

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/minnesota-autumns-tale-poem.html

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New Poems

24—there is no Remembrance

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/there-is-no-remembrance-poem-on-war.html

25—Siege of the Gaza Flotilla

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/siege-of-gaza-flotilla-poem.html

26— In the Valley of the Beast

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-valley-of-beast.html

[Armageddon]

27—Nightshade

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/nightshade-poem.html

28— Sailing Away

(A Poet’s luck)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/sailing-away.html

29—the Old Jew of Jerusalem

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/old-jew-of-jerusalem-and-commentary-on.html

30—Sense or Nonsense

Ten New Poems of: Sense or Nonsense

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/sense-or-nonsense.html

End Pages

The Works:

Reviews, Acknowledgements and Biography of the Author

Dr. Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/works-reviews-acknowledgements-and.html

See the Spanish Version at end of English Version

Additional Poems

31—the Lost Millennium

[A short epic poem)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/lost-millennium-short-epic-poem.html

32—the Bulls of Bashan

[A prophetic poem)

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/08/bulls-of-bashan-prophetic-poemby.html

33—the Man With the Cross

http://dlsiluk-inmytime.blogspot.com/2010/08/man-with-cross-by-dennis-l.html