With all my books, I use poetic chapter headers (Since it is impossible to obtain copyright permission to song lyrics). This opens the books and says a great deal about my current novel, "Fill My Eyes".
Fill my eyes
Fill my eyes with tears
And of simple dreams yet untold
The sweet lullabies of forgetfulness yet to unfold
Fill my eyes before the fear of reality takes hold
This is a powerful opening for your book and a piercing commentary in itself. It is sooo sad.
Connie
Reviewed by Linda Torrence (Reader)
Reviewed on December 28, 2008
What words to describe the deepness of the heart! After reading the book that you wrote, "Fill My Eyes" this poem so describes the debth that you feel about children and life. Children are so special and don't deserve to be hurt and your poem at the beginning of this book tells it all. I can't wait to read the next one that you write.
God bless,
Linda
Your book should be a terrific seller, so sentimental, so unusually vivid, so you and as of now wait til it takes hold then give a prayer to the good lord for giving you the words to write and the thoughts to never forget.
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.
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Connie
God bless,
Linda
Be always safe,
Karen