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Poetry from my Heart: A Journey Through Feelings
by Paul Guerin

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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.

5 out of 5

This was an emotional journey. Getting to see such an intimate peek into the author’s inner life was touching. You can feel the emotions pouring off the page and surround you, and are organized to make it easier to find ones that match your mood if you wish. I read it through in one sitting, and really enjoyed the shifts in tone and emotion, like walking through the colors of a rainbow. A great addition to any poetry lover’s bookshelf!

You awoke my world

I met you and you awoke my world

Suddenly the birds sang louder

And the music seemed more magical

Our souls touched and our hearts beat as one

We both know that this is not possible

We will pinch each other to see if it is real

We both know there are hurdles ahead

But just now we do not care

I promise you I will never control you

Promise me you will love me always

Let us promise each other forever friendship

Let’s become the best friends of our dreams

I promise you can be free with me

That I will always want you to fly on your own

I will always be here for you no matter what

I swear these promises to the God inside my soul

Time will pass and we will climb mountains

We are a team of simple, pure, amazing grace

The changes we have made in our lives are huge

Let’s move forward with the speed of mutual lightening

At times I feel afraid of the pace and the risks this change may bring

At times I simply want to be alone to figure the right path

At times I stagger, falling and getting back up

Always, I have been there for you without a word

When you need space, it is freely yours to have

I will never hold you when you need to be free

My soul will never smother your free spirit

I will always hold you when you need to be held

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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.

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