Poems And Prose On Love And Relationships Ii

These poems are life experiences for myself and others. Special thanks to those who helped me reach my goals including, Family, Couchiching Reservation, family, Gary Hahn, (the artist on Book I), my neighbors, friends and all those who believed in me. This book is dedicated to all those who suffer from emotional pain.

These poems are life experiences for myself and others. Special thanks to those who helped me reach my goals including, Family, Couchiching Reservation, my neighbors, friends and all those who believed in me. This book is dedicated to all those who suffer from emotional pain.

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.

Award-winning Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr presents a pulsating collection of poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality. Visceral and energetic, Sakr’s poetry confronts the complicated notion of “belonging” when one’s family, culture, and country are at odds with one’s personal identity. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, The Lost Arabs is a fierce, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.

"The road to love never did run smooth." In a candid set of poems, Wade B. Townsend II journeys through the passion, romance, lust, lies and deceit of what has come to be the prototype for conventional relationships. The story of Wade and Star, told through poetry, manifests every phase of their relationship. Could this "unbreakable" couple survive pain and heartache? Can they find the perfect love within each other? Through this compilation of poetry and prose the reader can appreciate the difference between a "poetry story" and an ordinary book. Welcome to both worlds, where a tale told with poetry is revealed through narration. A true representation of "Relationship Phases".

Marvin Dozier has an innate creative ability. He is quick to point out that "the male/female relationship is like a wheel in constant motion; always moving, but sometimes going nowhere". He has created personalized poems for the individual or couple; which truly reads as though they themselves have written it. He has a keen insight into the feelings within the many people for whom he created a poem. This experience, in combination with his two practiced Masters; one in Social Work; the other in Human Services; has provided him with a well-rounded understanding of people he engages. His book is a compilation of selected pieces of original work; spanning over four decades. He examines the Male/Female relationship through a series of poems, prose, and essays. He presents a unique understanding of the various stages and phases within the female/male relationship; writing from both perspectives of the correlation; exposes the ups, downs, love, joy, anger, hopes, dreams, fantasies, truth, lies, deceit, honesty, drama, stability; changes, bitter and sweet, failures and successes. It is experiential and imagination. His feelings are spilled upon the pages, for the most part, from an experiential nature. He carefully portrays the relationships, which - at times - make you look for the tear-stains upon the paper; or causing you to look to the sky for the rainbows he writes about; or the roses in the garden or vase. He takes you into yourself and allows you to clearly identify with that of which he writes . . .