Inner Heart: A Journey

By Candice James

2nd book of poetry by Poet Laureate Candice James centred on the theme of love's agony and ecstasy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
• Release date: Oct 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9780991685134

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Inner Heart A Journey

by

Candice James,

POET LAUREATE

Published by Silver Bow Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Candice James

ISBN 978-0-9916851-3-4

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INNER HEART – A JOURNEY

Cover Photos: Janet Kvammen

Cover Design: Janet Kvammen

Layout & Design: Candice James

Editing: Cathy Gunn

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this book or any portions thereof, in any form

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Never Ending

The Dream Vanished

The Falling Away

Clearly

Waterfall

Horseman

Breath Of My Breath

Layer By Layer

The Shadow And The Flame

Shards Of Sea Glass

The Search

Freeze Frame Flashbacks

You Lay Me Down Softly

Green Smoke

Crushed Autumn

Dancing In The Dark

Nevada Evenings

Once Upon A Time In France

Yesterday’s Kiss

Cool Water Piano Keys

Shore Bound Stranger

Damage and Havoc

Discontent

Glossy Nights

You Lay Me Down Softly

Fifty Years Later

I Can’t Find You

In Broken Pieces

Inhale... Exhale

One Last Time

Scarring The Deck

On A Star Dusted Sea

Still

The Airport

You Take Me By Surprise

Crumbling Prison

Passed Slowly Over The Lips

Always It`s Love

Remember

The Road And The Echo

The Statue

The Keeping

Awareness

Stones

Nirvana

If I Saw You Again

Double Take

Only A Motion Away

Evenings Of Sweet Desire

Gone

No Doubt

The Feeling

The Sweetest Days

Broken Too Long To Be Fixed

Always Searching

The Remaining

That Moment In Time

Reversal

At That Crucial Moment

In Everything

Sleeping Awake

Immortalized

Moving Through

Then And Now

The Voice

Through A Mirror Darkly

Survival

Stain

Oblivious

No Way Out Of You

Me Without You

Even Brighter

Dead Woman Walking

Crab Cakes And Jazz

Lost

Before You Looked Away

Traces

Love’s Metal

Unchained

When You Smile

There Used To Be Lightning

Spectacular Nights

Never Strangers

Diamond Roses

Never Lost

Intersections

In Lieu Of Flowers

And Still We Plunge Deeper

Broken

Hate / Love

Your Absence

Branding Irons

Shoreline

Forsaken

The Promise

Whisper My Name

Even Less

NEVER ENDING

In a breath never-ending,

On a wind ever bending,

These trees have always been.

Planning in the dark of a new moon,

Before the light of day could find them,

These children of a lost Forest God

Were folding their branches in prayer,

When we lay down in their laps.

The morning dew still clung to their leaves,

Shimmering like diamonds on display.

An eagle glided on high descending

With snow white feathered wing bending,

In salute to this pristine dream

Designed by these stately Van Gogh sentinels

Dressed in their shaded evergreen uniforms.

Within this timeless chasm,

Of slow motion unending changes

That mirror life and death,

These trees remain our watchful companions.

Inside these forest canyons

We breathe a sweeter breath.

Tomorrow we’ll travel on

Until the pavement meets

Sand, beach, ocean and sky.

On a wave ever bending,

On a beach never-ending

We’ll merge with our shadows

And walk in the sun forever.

THE DREAM VANISHED

She sat down on the duvet

And sewed sequins onto the frame

Of the dream she planned to wear forever;

Sparkling, shimmering within their own illumination;

The way her body and spirit shone

Iridescently in the mirror.

She stood up, walked into the mirror

And exchanged places with her image.

This new privacy so coveted felt so good

Encased in one way glass,

Smooth to the touch, yet abrasive to the soul.

Slightly rippling

At the inner reaches and the outer