The Fearsome Colors of Forsythia

A Collection of Mostly Narrative Poems

By: William Justice Bruehl

Narrated by: William Justice Bruehl

Do you enjoy museums of oddities? Places where you’ll find the strange, the unusual, and the bizarre? In this anthology, you will encounter oddities composed by Bill Bruehl—storyteller, actor, and poet—and you’ll discover what emerges from his rich, sometimes chilling, imagination.

Bruehl says, “Many of these poetic images come out of the depths of me, and speak to me in a shamanistic way, or like the feelings evoked by instrumental music.” He admits, “I’ve written poems all my life, most were story poems that were strange even to me, and I loved them even though most have disappeared or lost my affection.” His imagination conjures places he’s never been, like India and Central America, and images of amazing events manufactured by his unlikely vision.

This collection of 29 poems includes his favorite poems. Some are personal, some deal with our place in the cosmos, and some explore our confrontations with death and creativity. They include love poems alongside horror, realism, fantasy, and realistic fiction. If you enjoy museums dedicated to the strange and unusual, you will enjoy listening to The Fearsome Colors of Forsythia.

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