Excerpt
My Soul Mate
Made for me,
Before I had an identity.
Meant to be,
Can’t run and hide from him.
Stuck with him,
Even when someone else comes around.
Long for him,
Even when he makes me mad,
Can’t wait to see him,
He’s the best I ever had.
Professional Reviews
Poetic Story of Love and Life,
A familiar tale: Falling in love when you least expect or desire it!
Which means that not far behind is the inevitable mix of pleasure and pain, happiness and agony, melancholy and devotion, anger and forgiveness... Which hopefully will lead down the path to true and unconditional love.
Nicole S. Brown, in "Who Do You Love?" gives us a poetry collection about the subject of unconditional love and the trials and tribulations it can bring to daily life. Love is not perfect and does not always happen when you want it to! Her poems bring this fervid topic to the written page, and in a manner which all readers can equally commiserate with.
Each poem is written with a specific rhythm that further enhances the emotions portrayed. And often, readers can see the reflection of their own personal experiences, feelings and desires in the stories shared.
Though this poetry is written on the subject of love between a man and woman, it can also be inspirational in other ways, as the ups and downs of love are similar to the tumultuous ride of anything loved in life- work, family, God.
The relationship we have with ourselves and love is a topic that will never grow old. Love is not simple. But Nicole's poetic examination helps remind us all that the path to true and unconditional love is a road worth taking!
And Nicole's poetry is a chance worth taking! Your only risk is falling for this author, heart and soul.
By Rachel M. D'aigle "New Reads Underground" (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Poetic Love Story,
"Who Do You Love?" by Nicole S. Brown, delves into one poets views on the subject of unconditional love ~ a love that not only hits you by surprise, but throws your life into both joy and upheaval. This poetry collection covers a classic theme that has been written about since humans first began writing, and no doubt will be written about until humans are no more: Love ~ and the roller coaster ride it sends you on once you take that hit from Cupids arrow.
From pure ecstasy and pleasure, to denial, fear, confusion and anger, each poem strikes a nerve with anyone that's experienced requited or unrequited love... But always keeps to the overall theme of loving someone, unconditionally, even though it might not feel like the right time in one's life to accept love.
It is easy to sympathize with this author's poetic analysis of the subject, as the range of emotions experienced becomes almost therapeutic; in that it allows the reader to recall their own love stories, and that we are not alone in this journey. It's a path all of us take at one time or another.
"Who Do You Love?" is a magnificently sincere, and daringly honest, poetry collection, and one that will hit home with both fans of the genre, and people in love.
By M. Penny Harmon, Review SIP "ReviewSIP" (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,
