You are that, where I live
my heart, soul and essence
center and whole of me.
The paths I have traveled
to be in your pressence
have been long, arduous.
There were choices taken
and options born of sense
that stripped away my worth.
Your loves given me back
the me I'd forgotten since
the boy, the man that was.
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Reviewed by Sandy Hoynacki (Reader)
Reviewed on July 22, 2012
Once more, I have found your heart-write and discovered a tender feel of ink that flows from your being. You are indeed a gentle poet with real depth. You know what love is about....
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
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