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Category:  Poetry
Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN-10:  1432753207

Type: Non-Fiction

Pages: 127

Copyright: 
Jan 1, 2002
ISBN-13: 9781432753207


WHETHER BY CHANCE is a compilation of 79 poignant poems written during a whirlwind decade of romantic endeavors.

Rooted in personal experiences, these poems express the hopes and personal trials of one woman in her lifelong pursuit of love. Each lyrical stanza shines an illuminating light on the blind corners of romance while imparting to readers the insights of someone who came to know love and passion a little too well.

Everyone has, at one point or another, felt the fulfillment of holding the right hand, the heartbreak of severing with a lover, the ache of being a second choice and-or the very private pain of never reuniting with a lost love. That said, love is at once common and uncommon, demanding and not, strong and delicate, humble and supremely arrogant. Every facet of its essence is beautifully captured as the author employs words as a paintbrush to color the magnificence of human emotions... all in a way so honest, it’s unforgettable.



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Nothing but love abates the pain

Or conceives what lips can say

Of what lovers proudly gain

And lost upon that traipse



A LOVE STORY



Hush here and mind a story

Of two righteous hearts that grieve

While they sail on out for glory

…upon a separate leave.



Alas, he watched her turn

To span their space between

As she paced to veil the burn

Of tears he’s never seen



For kind, beseeching words

Fear’s stolen quite away!

Thus sadly, neither heard

What either longed to say



Ah, baffling are such stories!

I swear I’ve heard enough

About lovers set for glory

Yet were too afraid to love.


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BELIEVE



Dreading pass her eagerness

She tethered love at stake

Disclaiming love and trust

Does well to compensate



The loss of innocence

And joviality, when dead

By raining radiance

About her garden bed



Ah, proffer love the chance

To be with no mistake

That perhaps are so when hands

And dreams and hearts should break



Though tears are meant to harden

The once impassioned mind

Believe that all so often

The truest love is kind.


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