Dawn of a New Discovery Table of Contents 170 Poems of Life, Love, Passion and Conflict.                                                    From Newark, NJ to far away places........... Would you like to go to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Brazil, New York, and Newark, NJ?                                                           Dawn of a New Discovery will take you there in flowing rhymes of poetry.

Forward
How to Write a Poem
What is a Poem?
Introduction
The Day is done, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Chapter 1: Of Lands & Wondrous Places

Deserts and Sunsets
Kashmir
Children in the Casbah
Summer Day in Bangladesh
Island, Chaar
Girl from Bangladesh
Peace, Kutub Uddin, Newark, NJ
Hope-the Water Buffalo
Sri Lankan Teardrop
The Aroma of India
Sari
The Lions and Children of Gir
The Hill
Green Eyes
Baghdad Poet, of Nazik Al-Malaika
Moroccan Dreams
Flying Kites in Pakistan
The Jaguar
Portrait of Old Japan, Wayne Thomas
Bamboo Forest
China and Babies and Winnie the Pooh
I’m thinking About a Garden in Shanghai
Behind the Horizon Dawn of a New Discovery

Classics:
Tyger, William Blake
Passage To India, Walt Whitman

Poet’s Profile: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rabandranath Tagore, William Blake, Walt Whitman

Poetry Lesson: Chinese, Indian poetry, Japanese poetry.                           Different Types of Poems
7 Haikus, Wayne Thomas

Chapter 2: Of Children & Schools

Electric Streets
My Education, Steven Babici, Carteret, NJ
The High School Hall
A Monday Morning in Paterson
One Day in Belfast
The Auditorium
The Kid from P.S. 22
A Child is not a Toy
The Color of Flowers
Conversations with Olivia
Jacquelyn Miller
Children and Snow
In the Shadow of the Volcano
Oliver Street
Right Here
December’s First Snow (Gabriella’s Song)
Skipping My Pets, Yocheved Gehler
From the Fourth Floor Window
Danger in the Classroom
Running the Street
Little Girl
Katarina
Hector Ladezmez
Little Seeds
Baby

Classics: Little Alice
Where Go the Boats, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cow, Robert Louis Stevenson
When Mother Reads Aloud
Children Learn What they Live
On the Beach at Night, Walt Whitman
Little Interpreters, John Greenleaf Whittier

Poet’s Profile: Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Eve Merriam
Poetry Lesson: Key Elements, Forms in Poetry

Chapter 3: Of Art, Music, Flowers & Hope
Painting
Portrait
Painting Flowers in the Spring
The Bombay Artist The Flower of Kindness
Edelweiss-Austrian Summer
Dona Henrique’s Flower Garden
Flower in the Wind
Tiger in Rio
Spring in the City
Bengali Flower
Weedy Tree

Hope
Deep Skies Blue
Music
Beautiful Music, Like White Doves of Dawn
David
Psalms 103
The Egyptian Pianist

Classics:
My Song is Born, Rabandranath Tagore
The Daffodils, William Wordsworth
An Artist’s Studio, Christina G. Rossetti
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman

Poet’s Profile: Christina Rossetti
Poetry Lesson: Sound

Chapter 4: Paradise

The Road to Paradise
The Beauty of Paradise
Green Streams

Classics:
From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, Book I, John Milton

Poet’s Profile: William Wordsworth, John Milton

Poetry Lesson: Imagery

Art work by Asha Singh, Bombay, India
WorldArt: India, by Asha Singh

Chapter 5: On the Meaning of Life

Humility is Like a Flower Pot
Dust in the Corner
The Meaning of Life Shepherd’s Arms
The Other Side of the Storm
Halloween in the Eyes of a 2nd Grader
O For a Faith That Will not Shrink, William Bathurst
Thank You
Dusty Tired Feet

Classics:
Life Not in Vain, Emily Dickinson
The Bible, John Newman
Quotes from William Arthur Ward
Mercy, William Shakespeare
Consider, Christina G. Rossetti
False Religion, Rabandranath Tagore
To Find God, Robert Herrick
Chartless, Emily Dickinson
Take Time to Be Holy, William D. Longstaff

Poet’s Profile: Emily Dickinson, Robert Herrick
Poetry Lesson: Imagery

Chapter 6: Of Nature, Faith & Wonderful Things Mosaic Below the Ocean
Night Sky Albatross

Let the Heart Speak
Sliver of Moon
The Coldest December
Beautiful Brazil
Papagaio
Heaven’s Wonders
Grand Canyon
Praising the Great Spirit
The Indian’s Horse

Classics:
Delight in Nature, Inuit Poem
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket, by John Keats
Stars, Emily Brontë
Stars, Sara Teasdale

Poet’s Profile: John Keats, Emily Brontë , Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, David
Poetry Lesson: Metre

Chapter 7: On Struggle & Conflict
Washing Clothes in the African Sun
Oh, Little Cow
Backstreets
Shining Shoes
The Last Night
The Crack of the Bat
At the Stadium
Overcome the Violence
Remembering Dachau
On a Sunny Evening, by the Children of Terezin Concentration Camp
The Day
What is and What Might Not Have Been
Carrying Water
Green and Mean
Those Blue Suede Shoes
Chemical Emotions
Scream
Newark Streets
Cold Night
It’s All Good Now

Classics:
The Runaway Slave, Walt Whitman

Poet’s Profile: Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks

Chapter 8: On Humanity & Love

Paint Me a Rainbow
Glennoch Fell, Wayne Thomas
Cameo on Water, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Jane Statlander
The Colors of Life in the Sky

Classics:
Loneliness, Ahmed Faiz
Tell Her So
To S.M., A Young African Painter On Seeing his Works, Phyllis Wheatley
The House by the Side of the Road, by Sam Walter Foss
Smile
Don’t Quit

Poet’s Profile: Ahmed Faiz, Phillis Wheatley, Sam Walter Foss

Chapter 9: Conclusion
Poems and Poets
References