Endless Journey Beyond: The Every Day Struggle With Life, Family, Love, Tragedy, and Psychic Trauma

By Romeo Maskey

Romeo Maskey's Endless Journey Beyond is a collection of poems that depicts the writer's every day struggles through the urban civility and materialism to love and tragedies in life and many ways life itself. Finding solace in literary expression through poetic verses, the writer construes his every day tantrums filled with emotional and psychological upheaval of an ordinary person. Endless Journey Beyond is a blend of emotional abstraction and materialistic sarcasm with provocative reactions to everyday frustrations and fanciful natural interactions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483506999

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Contents

Holding Back

The Dream stuck in the Black Hole

Eternity

Second Best

Paradigm

For Her

Motivating Her

The burden of life, not death but myself

I am the philosopher who lost it all- never got what he wanted and never had what he wanted

One, Two, Three and I want to be free

Walking along an empty isle, waiting for the elusive smile!

Letting You Go

The Corporate Showdown

Life's Jaded but not yet faded

World raising battle

Lost what I was never meant to have

Under the Influence of Passion and Tragic Love

Lost in my memories

A Day

Hope

Hold me, Touch me, Feel me, Conceal me

My Disturbed Youth Speaks for itself: Part I (2003)

Déjà vu

The Story of You and Me

A step out of my home and out into the endless wild

Years of heartache coming back to life

Critiquing a poem with another poem

Before the end, this is the last letter I wanted to send

And quietly I poise myself into your heart

God Forbid

Life still goes on

26 Things I hate about you

Folklore of New Year

The Game My Psyche Plays on Me

From the Dearth with Passion

His wish for her and hers for nickel and dime

Of demons and god!

Friends like never before, the six friends enter through the door

Memory Relapse

Happiness makes you cry

Arousing the desires, Grandeur

Life’s Calling

Far over you but still recollecting my Broken Pieces

Mocking the Crowd Silently

A New Chapter

Beyond the Walls

History repeats

The Endless Journey Beyond

By Romeo Maskey

This is a collection of poems, poems which made their way up to the author’s psyche, stirring his emotions to delve deeper into barren territory where opportunities to be fascinated and in turn be inspired, thence taking the author to countless journeys in abstraction and in reality. These are the poems that unraveled his inner conscience, the one stuck in the purgatory of ego and super ego, as he strode forward unrelenting about his past and the present that owes him so much. The destiny previously unseen and never witnessed for him was finally started baring itself and he started swaying to a fanciful world of his own, taking him away from, yet sitting in front waiting for the poet to confront reality. This is the collection of so many of those bitter experiences and good experiences which made him realize that life always balances out everything in life, from happiness, to sadness, from hardship to success, and from goodness to evil sins. Everything has a way of finding itself in us and there is always light at the end of the tunnel, and it is merely fact of having the patience, endurance, courage and will power to reach there or holding on to reach there one day.

Holding Back

May be I am not the one you’re looking for,

May be I am not the right one you’re feeling for,

May be I am not the sight you’re seeking for,

May be I am not the light you’re looking for.

I am but a ghost and a story you’re feeling for,

I am but a shadow that you’re hiding from,

I am but a pawn with a shoulder, to rest your head for,

I am but a guide and a stint you’re kneeling for.

A harbor in the casting sun,

A momentary lapse in concentration,

A reason for a moment to smile,

A season for a walk across the empty mile.

I see where you came from,

I see what you came for,

I see when you came in,

But I can’t see why you came to.

I, Me and another guy you see,

On the mirror in front of your screen,

The guy you talk all night in the shadows remaining unseen,

Talking about all, but to be honest about something you don’t seem very keen.

Lie to me, Lie to him,

But never to the picture that I see in your eyes,

Cry to me, cry to him,

Not too keen to reach out and share, you seem.

May be I am too bland,

May be you’re like sand,

Blowing into my face,

While trying to grip tight, slipping slowing off my hand.

May be I am just a passerby,

Just that you happened to come nearby,

And before I could get a grip on you, to feel you,

You’re already there, waiting to bid goodbye.

May be I am not right,

Never was, never will and never could,

May be slowly I am to move out of sight,

To fall for you was for me and not your plight.

I was here, will be here, could be nowhere,

But then you have to reach out to hold me and swear,

Falling back into that same stair,

Would be a

Reviews for Endless Journey Beyond

[Romeo Maskey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Reviewed by Katelyn Hensel for Readers' Favorite

First off, I loved the cover art of The Endless Journey Beyond by Romeo Maskey. There is something so quietly thought-provoking about the cover that really sets the mood and tone of the piece. It's like you just look at it and get a breath of fresh air and settle down for a meaningful and thoughtful adventure. I loved it!

I really enjoyed how many of the poems seem to be about taking the bitterness that life brings at times and turning them into inspiring moments. At least, that is what I kept noticing, and as they say, "Poetry is beautiful because you read a new poem each time you read it." It was nice to have full page poems for a change. I'm used to collections of poetry with mini three-lined poems crammed five to a page. It's nice to find some poems as long as four or five pages. They give you more of a sense of what the poet is speaking about and a bigger picture. In addition, because it takes you longer to read, you spend more time focusing on what the poet is trying to say instead of just burning through poem after poem.

I absolutely loved "Holding Back." It just resonated with me and I responded to that connection. It brought to mind exactly how I feel and what I am experiencing in one of my longest relationships. I really love how not only that poem, but most of them, really get to the heart, the emotion of a situation and define it in words that you didn't even know you were thinking about.

Call me old fashioned, but I like my poems to rhyme. People can talk free verse nonsense and all that, but to me, poems should rhyme. The writing style of the piece was very simplistic, but I enjoyed that the rhyme was consistent, yet varied throughout the entire text. Romeo Maskey has done a great job in just a few pages, but really transferred some emotion and made me feel for his pieces. I so enjoyed reading this collection of poetry.

[Sarala Malla Maskey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A great read that you will surely love reading. A thoroughly interesting read that exceeded my expectation that I had from a book of poetry. It indeed turned out to be a good book of poetry for all seasons. I will definitely recommend it to other readers. Go for it, you will cherish reading it word for word. Two thumbs up!

[Adi Ti · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A good read that takes you into an emotionally charged journey. The book encapsulates the ever so changing emotions of life with poems like 'Years of heartache coming back to life'. The raw emotions that stir up reading '26 things I hate about you' sums up how emotionally enthralling all the works are. Truly a great read and a definite thumbs up.