New Hues and Past Tales

New Hues and Past Tales is a collection of poetry from the head & heart of Edmond Bruneau. His meandering musings include thinking about his elderly father, life events turned into passages, self-reflection and sensitive observation. Humorous, sad, thoughtful or silly - all written in Bruneau's unique and compelling way.

Poems include:

Things to Put in My Pocket
Get it Right this Time
Mini Miracles
Saint Chicago
I'll Tell You What Happens
Fireflies of Icarus
First Kiss
Summer in Color
Grandmother's Supper
High as a Kite
Carnival Glass
Broken Wing
No Longer Zeus
Hoist Anchor
Common Bond
Sally, My Collie
Wide Awake, 3pm
Will Work for Food
The World Grows Up Around Me
10:16pm on Dearborn
Mom's Basket
Pal
I Will Wait
Raven's Call
Redmond in the Rain
A Good Day for Fishin'
Shipwrecked
Over Your Head
Appomattox Awaits
When Dreams Come True
Seed of Inspiration
Hard Knocks Equinox
My Mirage
Let Me In
High Fidelity
George
Rise and Shine
Dog Years
Forest Lodge
Empty Space
Domini's
Metamorphosis
Safe Harbor
I Light the Fuse
The Last Christmas
Same Old Song
High Bridge Park
My Favorite Pirate
Ides of My Essence
Extra Credit
I Would Have Told Her
Gasping at Straws
Earth Sojourned
My Favorite Things
Lilith
Holiday Hubbub
Safe and Insane
Merits of the Marshmallow
Picket Fence Facsimile
Time Bandit
A Flash in the Sky
Richie
Judas was a Surgeon
Spirits of Siren
The Pomegranate Diet
Picnic
Snake River Circus
Odonota
Piecing it Together
Old Redmond
The Strangest Everything
One More Day
Burial of His Father on His Third Birthday
Trapped in Doldrums
Trouble with Fire
The Earth is Flat
The Old Red Barn
Never Go to Bed Hungry
Time to Leave
Time and Temperature
Saved Your Home
Two Valentines
Where are you Carol Morrison?
Just a Dream
When I Write
Challenger
Welcome to the CIA
Spring Break
Winter Adieu
Strumpet Tremolo
The Paper Mill
Ambidextrous
When Angels Laugh
The Path
With a Whistle, Whiskey and Why
Green Beans
A Bitter Pit
Choice
Naked Bird
Morning, Without You
The Next Step
Four Agreements
The Me I'd Thought I'd Be