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    For Love of Rapture and Death
    For Love of Rapture and Death
    For Love of Rapture and Death
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    For Love of Rapture and Death

    By William Bonnie

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    With dark humor and a passion for the unknown, William Bonnie paints a somber picture of love, rapture and death in this collection of works. Let him feed your hunger, be it laughter love or rage. Even the Mad-man has a song.

    So come along, take my hand. The journey wouldent be the same without you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 24, 2012
    ISBN9781475952926
    For Love of Rapture and Death
    Author

    William Bonnie

    Born in Winnipeg Manitoba, the youngest of three, I have no post-secondary to offer you, only the trials of my heart. This is my first book. All that I can do is offer it to you and ask that you do me the gesture of reading the first page. If it does not suit you, I thank you for your time, But, if it pleases you, then I hope that we shall be friends for a very long time to come.

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      For Love of Rapture and Death - William Bonnie

      Copyright © 2012 by William Bonnie.

      Author Credits: Brent Eckert

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-5291-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-5292-6 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012918029

      Contents

      Words of my heart

      The Dark fantastic

      The way home

      Lest we forget

      Toys in the attic

      In the dead of night

      Foolish heart

      Of an old friend

      The girl next door

      Emptiness

      Sing for The Madman

      I dedicate my heart

      Thy lady lay

      Of Woman’s worth

      Little red devil

      Dancing in the graveyard

      Evermore

      Honestly, I came running

      Of man’s ire

      Good night lament

      Vengeance

      The plague of sin

      Of Love

      Enlightenment

      Without a song

      Prelude to a kiss

      Urbane Cry

      I came upon an assassin

      Prelude to a Christmas

      Let the long road take you home

      Dia de los muertos

      Silver love

      Silent hill

      As sane as me

      Road with no name

      The forest

      The silence of insanity

      August sixth

      Chasing the Moon

      Of sleep and dreams

      The world that I knew

      Woman I call Night

      Twenty-first Century War

      The house on Maple lane

      Humble pie

      God laughed

      Hands

      Of dreams

      For cause I murder

      Black heart

      The Nary bird

      The futile cause

      May this world keep turning

      Murder of crows

      Trujillo

      Carry me on

      Untitled

      Everything Zen

      Patriotic Suicide

      Celestial Dream

      Untitled

      Baby Jane

      Untitled

      Untitled

      New World Order Plan

      Thirty years of prayer

      Heart of Darkness

      Christine

      Stifling heart

      Words of my heart

      ’Tis for the things in life

      Most solemn and divine

      That I offer to you this;

      Eat of my heart dear friends,

      I pray that it is good.

      It has been for a long time bitter

      But now is ripe.

      Let its juices drip from

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