This is a poetry book written in traditional romantic style with rhyme and meter driving the reader along on a satisfying poetic adventure. The book covers a range of poetic subjects and introduces the reader to some fascinating heroes and heroines - especially "Isabelle Rose" herself.
Excerpt
As an example, the following is one short poem from the collection;
Today I danced with butterflies
Beneath the carefree cloudless skies.
The jasmine filled the gentle breeze
That raised sweet songs among the trees
Like haunting childhood lullabies.
So blithely did I dance my dance,
So lost was I in my deep trance,
That love and peace and merriment
Filled all my world and swiftly sent
My soul aflame with sweet romance.
Then as I heard the songbirds' cries
And watched the skylark rise and rise,
And as my eyes with tears grew wet
I knew that I would not forget
The day I danced with butterflies.
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