Poetry from My Heart: A Journey through Feelings
by Paul Guerin
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GENRE: Poetry
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BLURB:
"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:
a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of
feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style 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 you.
In
this second book, Poetry from my Heart: The Journey Continues, I have again
divided 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, whether you are in love, out of love, hurt, lonely,
angry, abandoned, or 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 have found something here that
helped you safely on your own journey.
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EXCERPT
The green hills of Ireland
The green hills of Ireland are calling to me
I hear their soft whisper wherever I roam
No matter whether on land or on sea
The green hills of Ireland keep calling me home
I lived in old Ireland as a young lad you see
And I left my heart there on some mossy hillside
Now I yearn to go back to set my heart free
And awaken a dream I can no longer hide
For I love your high mountains and windy seashore
Your hills and your streams rolling down to the sea
And I long to go home to my lost land of yore
And return to the Irish that’s deep within me
Now sheep in the pastures are calling to me
From the craggy rock walls that keep them inside
While the streams that run down from the mountains so free
Speak sparkling with hope and a joy they can’t hide
I long for the ocean on the Wild Atlantic Way
And the crazy coast road that winds in and out
And the sea breeze that whispers I hope you will stay
And the people all happily wandering about
I remember the old priory standing in ruins
Near Castletownroche with its bridge and its mill
I recall all the pubs with their loud Irish tunes
And my mind wanders back where my soul lingers still
I miss all the people so friendly and kind
With their musical language and soft Irish smiles
How they welcomed me home with a grace so refined
That I felt their great love from thousands of miles
The green hills of Ireland keep calling to me
Come home now we’re waiting to see you once more
For you know in your heart it’s the place you must be
So return again Irish to your green land of yore
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Paul Guerin is
an Irishman. He was born in September 1946 in Castletownroche, a small townland
village in County Cork, Eire.
It was there in
Castletownroche that his romantic imagination was sparked as he came to love
and appreciate the magic of his surroundings. Those early experiences were the
genesis of his poetry that emerged in later life.
As a young
adult, Paul lived in London, England, where he became a chartered accountant.
At age 25,
restless for adventure, Paul moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
where he still resides today.
Paul is happily
married and is a proud father and grandfather.
Paul writes
poetry as the inspiration comes to him. As long as his mind, body and soul are
willing companions and his spark of inspiration remains alive, he will continue
to write.
This book is
Paul's second publication in his Willing Heart series. His first book was
published in the Spring of 2022 and is called Poetry from My Heart: A Journey
through Feelings. The book reached #1 on Amazon’s Kindle chart in British
Poetry and #2 in Poetry Anthologies November 2023.
For more
information visit www.paulguerinpoems.com
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