Poetry from My Heart

 Poetry: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience, in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

 

Poetry means different things to different people. For me, it is all about feelings. If it captures the emotions of the reader, a poem will resonate and fill the soul. It can mean everything to one person and not much at all to another. The mood of the reader and no-one else determines the outcome.

 

For example, love poems are wonderful when you are in love and their passion is amazing. If you are facing adversity, however, love poems likely will just annoy or even anger you.

 

In "Poetry from my Heart", I have attempted to divide the poems into categories which will fit your mood no matter what you are experiencing at the time you choose to explore them. There should be something for everyone, no matter whether you are in love, out of love, you hurt, you are lonely, angry, abandoned, or you are facing other challenges in your life.

 

Poetry has a healing power that nurtures the soul and quietens the mind, and so I hope that whatever your situation is in life, you will find something here that helps you safely on your journey.

my review...

Very emotional, very beautiful, and very flowing and smooth in reading. In other words...there's a little bit of everything here for everyone. What a wonderful gift this would make. 

read an excerpt...

 

Like Eagles soar

 

You inspire my soul to reach the highest peaks

You light up the world I live in

With light so bright it dazzles and shines

Until all that is impossible becomes real

 

And the things I do are easier now because your love

Has made me strong and willing to risk

That which before I would have left untouched

And the results are amazing and stunning

 

I stand in awe and I laugh at myself

For ever doubting that I could not reach

For the highest peak and touch the stars

And find the apex of my soul

 

You have inspired the very best in me

To reach and seek my authentic self

To take a stand for what I believe in

To have the courage to trust in myself

 

And to believe that my dreams can come true

You have shown me how to fly with you

And to join with you with wings spread wide

Soaring into the sunset to meet the new dawn.

 

about Paul Guerin... 

As a very young boy, I lived in a small Irish townland village called Castletownroche. The village was situated in the very beautiful and pastoral County Cork. I had an Irish uncle who played in a showband and who taught me to fish at age four. I wrote a poem about that. My mother was absent and I never knew my father. I wrote another poem about that. We lived in abject poverty. I survived by the grace and loving kindness of an old Irish grandmother sporting a black dress, black shawl and a wicked temper driving a razor-sharp tongue. I called her Nana.

Nana taught me to fear her retribution and used it to keep me safe and provide security that I could find nowhere else. Well into my teens, my inner world was cast in fear and I had no real sense of belonging or attachment to anyone or to anything. The inability to handle those feelings eventually led me to substance abuse. My journey along that road has generated much of the poetry of adversity, hope, and inspiration that you will find in this book. I truly hope that those poems in particular will salve the souls of those of you who are still trudging that happy road to destiny on your way back from hell.

Not surprisingly, I have had difficulty in maintaining healthy relationships throughout my life, and much of the love poetry is about those failures and many, many, sorry attempts to return to love. Those painful/happy experiences had a major influence on my writing.

 

Connect with Paul Guerin

 

WEBSITE https://paulguerinpoems.com/

 

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/paulguerinpoems

 

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