One of my great pleasures is to help publish new and exciting poetry and to act as an editor and publisher to emerging poetic voices. I have the immense delight to announce that my latest project, the long awaited collection of poetry from American poet Maureen Aisling Duffy-Boose is now ready and available. It's a great collection, with diverse themes but a unifying style, confident and passionate, but wise and compassionate. And overall, hopeful and optimistic.
One of my personal favourites comes from the first section of the book, the love poems and as it's a wednesday I am sharing it here, with kind permission of Maureen herself. If you would like to read more of Maureen's wonderful poetry, please go to:
Songs of My Heart, Maureen Aisling Duffy-Boose, ISBN 978-0-9562403-2-3 PPP Publishing Dublin, Ireland
Love on a Wednesday
Maureen Aisling Duffy-Boose, Songs of My Heart
It
never gets old...
I
walk down the halls of this house
and
I feel your love for me beating in the walls
Like
the blood through my veins.
I
never get tired
Of
feeling the energy of the love we share
surrounding
me like the wall paper.
I
walk into my office
And
the first thing I see is you smiling at me,
more
beautiful even than the view from the windows...
(Which
is saying something!)
And
I feel the reality
Of
every dream I ever dared to dream in secret,
Knowing
they were all fairy tales
And
never expecting fulfillment.
It's
just Wednesday
No
special anniversary,
No
day made for lovers...
Except
that every day is that, now,
And
I am among the privileged,
The
ones who have someone to cherish,
Something
to sing about...
And
so I sit here,
And
I know every word I say is inadequate
But
in the face of beauty,
And
love,
And
the fulfillment of every waking dream,
How
can I be silent
Even
on a Wednesday?
Lovely words for a Wednesday ! I'll share some more shorter excerpts from poems over the coming weeks.
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