This poem likens love to nature and music. Love, depicted as a timeless melody and blooming roses, transcends physical bounds. The verses convey unconditional love, intertwining emotions, thoughts, and touch.
The Poetry of Love
Love is Living Art
This poem captures the essence of falling in love, whether it's the excitement of youthful infatuation or the enduring love of maturity. The poet reflects on her own experiences emphasizing the belief that it's never too late to fully embrace love. The poem celebrates the transformative and inspiring nature of love, encouraging people to embrace love fully. The poem paints a picture of love as living art, inspiring and challenging us to step beyond our comfort zones.
Steal Away A Moment in Time
In the early stages of love, intense emotions consume us, often distracting from daily tasks. As time passes, the frequency of these emotions may diminish, but stolen moments continue to nourish the romance. The poem reflects on the desire for intimacy and connection amidst life's busyness.
A Romantic First Date – The Wilted Rose Part 20
On a blind date, a young adult experienced a classic, romantic evening with a new love interest. The date included a sports car arrival, red roses, champagne, oysters, and intimate conversation overlooking the city lights. The story is shared in poetic form, contemplating the possibility of love.
Saying ”I Am Too Busy” is a Cover-Up
This poem recounts a life spent focused on helping others, neglecting their own talents and goals, realizing this behavior was rooted in fear of criticism for their creative work. By confronting this fear, the poet now prioritize sharing her poetry while still helping others, but in a balanced manner. The message urges others not to use age or circumstances as excuses and highlights the importance of pursuing personal goals. The poet encourages readers to start now and live with curiosity and wonder.
Finding Happiness in a New City – The Wilted Rose Book Part 23
Grace, a young woman, leaves the family home to pursue love and happiness. Overcoming guilt, she boards a plane, excited for her new future. The excerpt ends with a poem about following love, embodying the theme of pursuing a new life in a new city.
Cruisin’ Into Her New Love Life – The Wilted Rose Book Part 22
This poem narrates the evolution of attraction into familiarity and love through the story of Grace and Alex. It details their budding relationship marked by exchanged letters and private phone calls at Grace's home. Instead of attending her usual youth camp, Grace saves money to visit Alex in Melbourne, where they experience the Bells Beach Surf Classic together. The excitement and comfort she feels around him open up new worlds of fun. The poem encapsulates these emotions, highlighting the purity and simplicity of their connection, as well as Grace’s tender hopes for their relationship's future.
Budding Love – The Wilted Rose Book Part 21
Grace, now a young adult, receives a letter that brings her joy. She eagerly awaits a reply from Alex, finding solace in her memories of their time together. Despite chaos at home, she immerses herself in their connection.
The Thrill of First Attraction – The Wilted Rose Book Part 19
The attention and thrill of first attraction. Feelings of vulnerablity and uncertainty together with excitement and pleasure.
Finding Freedom at Eighteen – The Wilted Rose Book Part 18
Mirroring the beauty and pain of a fragrant rose flower to that of life. Grace's dream of getting a full-time job and leaving home has come true. She has saved her money and she is leaving. Beverley Joy. Book Excerpt - The Wilted Rose Part 3 - The Wilted Rose Sarah had been well for... Continue Reading →
Mirroring the beauty and pain of a rose to that of life – The Wilted Rose Book Part 17
Grace moves to Melbourne, leaving behind the chaos of her strict upbringing, in pursuit of love and happiness. She embraces a new life with Alex, mirroring the beauty and pain of a rose. The fragrant flower becomes a metaphor for her poem enduring hardships to bloom into fullness, just as she does.
Teenage daughter waiting to leave home – The Wilted Rose Book Part 16
Teenage daughter looking for work so she can stop living with her mentally ill mother
Teenage daughter coping with her mother’s mental illness – The Wilted Rose Book Part 15
Sarah goes to hospital for shock treatment for her depression
Help for the family of a mentally ill mother – The Wilted Rose Book Part 14
Sarah's husband seeks medical help for his mentally ill wife.
Teenage daughter affected by her mother’s mental health – The Wilted Rose Book Part 13
Teenage daughter coping with her mother's mental illhealth.
The effects of a mother’s mental health on her daughter – The Wilted Rose Book Part 12
A teenager coping with her mother's mental illness.
Her Mother is Mentally Ill – The Wilted Rose Book Part 11
Daughter finds mother unconscious on the floor in family home.
Daddy, I Love and Trust You – The Wilted Rose Book Part 10
The love and trust a daughter has for her father.
The Harmony of Life is Out of Tune – The Wilted Rose Book Part 9
The need for community support for families grieving the loss of a loved one.
Her infant dies – The Wilted Rose Book Part 8
The death of her baby son and the grief of his young sister.
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