Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing: Sappho's Corner Solo Poets Series
Authored by Beth Mitchum
List Price: $15.95
6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
212 pages
ISBN-10: 1468198106
BISAC: Poetry / American / General
Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing is a collection of original poems by author, poet, and singer/songwriter, Beth Mitchum. This collection includes many love poems found in her first poetry collection, bethwor(l)ds: 20 years of poetry, as well as dozens of totally new poems that were either missed in the first collection or have been written since the publication of her first book. All the poems here fall under the themes of love found, love lost, or inner longing. Beth Mitchum's poetry is very readable even to the person who never thought they understood or cared to read poetry. She hopes that you will discover a hidden love for poetry, a genre she considers to be micro short stories, both true and fictional. For her the point of poetry is to tell a story, or paint a picture in your mind, in as few words as necessary to achieve that task. She sometimes uses Haiku to condense her own poems into even smaller packages. A story, if told well, doesn't have to be 1000 pages or even 1000 words long.
Wor(l)ds of Love, Loss, and Longing is a collection of original poems by author, poet, and singer/songwriter, Beth Mitchum. This collection includes many love poems found in her first poetry collection, bethwor(l)ds: 20 years of poetry, as well as dozens of totally new poems that were either missed in the first collection or have been written since the publication of her first book. All the poems here fall under the themes of love found, love lost, or inner longing. Beth Mitchum's poetry is very readable even to the person who never thought they understood or cared to read poetry. She hopes that you will discover a hidden love for poetry, a genre she considers to be micro short stories, both true and fictional. For her the point of poetry is to tell a story, or paint a picture in your mind, in as few words as necessary to achieve that task. She sometimes uses Haiku to condense her own poems into even smaller packages. A story, if told well, doesn't have to be 1000 pages or even 1000 words long.
Samples from the book:
Chiseling
If life keeps chiseling
away at my heart,
I'm not sure what
will be left at the end.
I hope it will be a diamond,
but sometimes I wonder
if it might just be
a handful of shattered bits
from one stray blow
that landed too hard
or a little off-center.
Wonder of Love
We’ve been through so much,
together and apart.
It’s a wonder we are
both still standing.
It’s even more of a wonder
that still we love.
Or maybe not,
since that is the wonder of love.
Lavender from Home
Squeezing the sachet
of dried lavender,
I breathe in the scent
of my home and garden.
Lavender planted
and tended by my hands,
now sustains me
through this difficult time.
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