Click here to buy this book! Lulu Jamie Collins Poetry South of Heaven (Hard Cover) South of Heaven (Paperback) Category:  Poetry Publisher: Jamie Collins Pages: 82 Copyright: Oct 31, 2010 South of Heaven is my first full collection of poetry...It contains 69 poems... South of Heaven is the first full length book of poetry by Jamie Collins. It was released on October 31, 2010. It contains 69 poems on 84 pages. South of Heaven is available in paperback, hard cover and e-book on Amazon Kindle. Excerpt Ode To No One I Mine eyes opened upon your face Visions of wonder filled my head Sending me to your holy place. Raising my heart from the dead And reinventing the secrets of love From the skin it has shed. And everything exists above The teaching of a higher learning And the secrets of a new love. My heart for your heart is yearning And I feel it when we are near Love in my heart is burning And from the secrets of love, I hear Love is burning everywhere. II Wild winds my love has blown Into the bowels of darkest night On wild winds my love has flown From the dimmest starlight Into something far below New feelings take flight Feelings I thought I’d never know From the chasms of despair Only happiness can show My love needs no repair Even though I can see Sometimes life isn’t fair You live your life for loving me And I live my life for loving thee.

South of Heaven, Poetry by Jamie Collins - Reviewed by Sheila Deeth for Poetic Monthly
South of Heaven, Poetry by Jamie Collins

Reviewed by Sheila Deeth for Poetic Monthly

Jamie Collin's poetry book starts just how it should, with a poem called Today that intrigues and promises and encourages the reader to turn the page. Like most modern poetry books, South of Heaven treads a path through lost love and betrayed security, but lighter touches leap unexpectedly with "...the moisture of morning dew / Soft kisses that tickle your imagination / And still my pen writes more..." Simple profundity and powerful brevity characterize many of the poems, raising this collection above many others. Serious poetic form is beautifully treated too in the singular As I Stood Upon the Mountaintop, with the same natural carving of words as in five-line declamations.

South of Heaven is not a perfect poetry collection; but then, what is? The poems span many styles, some flowing effortlessly, some so tightly edited they leave the reader gasping for air. A few occasional stragglers struggle through drum-beats of predictable rhythm and rhyme, but they can be forgiven. There's a pleasing sense of thoughts flowing onward from author's pen to page to reader's eye. My Last Love Poem is not the last, of course, but nor is a World of Lies all that remains. The deceptive simplicity of Shipwreck's five-line heart-break jumps delightfully to Mr. Squirrel's Circus, with spring and hope renewed.

Jamie Collins has written a poetry book that weeps but doesn't wallow, that pours emotions without self-indulgence, and that leaves thoughts lingering in the reader's mind-a collection well-worth reading, nicely organized, tightly edited and well produced.

Title: South of Heaven

Author: Jamie Collins

Rating: 4

South of Heaven - Reviewed by BK Walker Books
South of Heaven


Reviewed by BK Walker Books

South Of Heaven by Jamie Collins was an absolutely wonderful collection of poetry.

Beautifully written collection of poems with a bit of inspiration, emotion, and meaningful insight.

I'm sure the poems in South Of Heaven all stem from personal truths, but Collins has held nothing back in portraying the beauty of well written poetry.

My Love Is Dying

My love is dying
and I don't know what to do.
I tried to survive it
but I think I'm dying too.
I don't know where I'm going,
only god knows where I've been.
I feel a river flowing,
through my veins again.
It runs as cold as ice
and as blue as the sky.
I feel it deep within
my love is dying tonight.

I give South Of Heaven **** (5) Stars, BK Walker Books http://bkwalkerbooks.weebly.com
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