Poetry of Love and Loss

Love can hurt and love can heal. Love can make life miserable or fantastically exciting and pleasurable. It is an intense emotion, mostly misunderstood by psychologists, sociologists and other professionals, but yet, the subject of almost all artistic endeavors. If you like poetry, you'll love this book. Most of the poems relate to the ups and downs of a romantic love affair. If you have been in love, this poetry will remind you of tender moments that will bring tears to your eyes. If you have never been in love but dreamed of it, this book will help you understand the feeling of love better. Many of the poems in this book are filled with hope, even when the situation seems impossible. They deal with gut-wrenching breakup and loss of love as well as the ecstasy of being in love. Many of them have an introduction that explains the circumstances they were written in. These poems were written during an intense romantic love affair about forty years ago. The lovers this poetry references were both married to others when they fell in love. Between them, they had children ranging in age from two to seventeen years old. Children that, due to the lovers social situation, knew both of them. This made their situation doubly impossible. After about two years of their secret illicit affair, the lovers finalized divorce with their original partners and subsequently married each other. Today, as this book and others in the series are published, they are senior citizens, married to each other and about to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their love. They are still in an intense romantic love affair that they enjoy in every way, each and every day.