Poetry from the Heart – #Poetry #Giveaway

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.

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

About the Author

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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