David Bradford: 77 books

In 2005, David Bradford got the surprise of his life: his elderly mother found an old shoe-box at the back of her cupboard that contained a pristine record of one of the most turbulent times of his generation - and of his own personal life. Mrs Bradford had unearthed every letter that her twenty-six-year-old...

     The spoken word, depending on the orator, can produce wide-ranging effects and emotions in a listener. Likewise, the written word, whether a story, an autobiography, an historical account, or even a fortune cookie, can also impress upon its reader innumerable feelings. This impact,...

I began investigating UFOs and the Paranormal in High School. I started an afterschool club for extra credit which began immensely popular. Almost from Day One people wanted to tell me their stories of encounters with the unexplained. I wasn't really ready for this and it kind of freaked me out,...

The belief in life after death is a common denominator among most of the world’s major religions. According to the available archeological and anthropological evidence, this concept grew out of the earliest forms of adoration. Primitive peoples developed the notion of worship with the belief that...

If you think you have heard it all... You haven't. There are p!aces and events you have never heard about... Until now! You will not see them on cable TV or on the news. The truth is out there, but if it involves supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that science cannot explain away, there is a real...

    Frog Day is a fun poem about a particular instance in a frog's day, as observed by 'the reader'. In this day the frog meets two characters (a crocodile and a crane) who each try to get a curse-breaking kiss from the frog (of course the subtext, never stated, is that such a kiss would...

    Kitten Chicken is a a fun filled children’s poem. It is the exploits of a chicken 'chick' (a very young chicken) who puts on a kitten mask and plays --- or is it the other way around?!! There are plenty of references in each line to the various ways we 'pull chickens' into our everyday...

    I Did It is a fun poem about creation, in this case creating a turkey on construction paper by using your handprint. I wrote this after completing degree work in college, so it is an homage to working hard on something and completing it while having fun doing so. The poem mentions (in...

Now in my early fifties,‭ ‬I began reading about UFOs in the‭ ‬1960s.‭ ‬The first book I read was Flying Saucers Serious Business by Frank Edwards.‭ ‬The book was impressive and taught me that the proof for the existence of Aliens from other worlds was substantial.‭ ‬The entire...

    The Lizard Day is a magical tale of how caring influences the happiness of a couple. We initially meet the couple on their porch, observing a bicycle race of lizards streaming past. Through caring for an injured participant they reinforce their own bond. The poem initially does not rhyme...

Cats Love Lollipops is a fun poem examining how all cats love lollipops. It was written to be enjoyed by younger audiences and inspire them to imagine the various cats described, with lollipops. This poem is 5 stanzas which rhyme only coincidentally as the end of each line (for the most part) is either...

Nightingale is a fun poem about a bird singing, and joining along with that joyous song, making a new friend. Nightingale is written in 12 four-line stanzas. Each pair of stanzas is further divided as its own sub division. I wrote the poem with a structure of alternating lines of seven, then...

The Jaguar Princess is a single poem using rich imagery that brings the reader into a fantasy world of animals as people. It speaks to love, longing, happiness, and the necessity of going after what has been promised. We meet the Jaguar Princess in the throne room inquiring about her Prince and his...

Humberpeel is a playful exploration of how the sounds a hippopotamus window washer makes while cleaning skyscraper windows (in a very unique way). This poem has a rhyme to the "story stanzas" (though that rhyme is less evident due to the manner the lines have been divided up for each 'page')...