Poems For All Occasions

By Louise Lake

Poems For All Occasions is a captivating collection of the first 240 poetic works by Louise Lake. Containing poetry on a wide variety of subjects including fantasy creatures and special features, birds, love, angels, seasons, movies and much more. Poems For All Occasions captures the essence of life, love, experience, fantasy, inspiration and imagination in a book that is unlike any other with its delicate blend of creation, you are taken to a world beyond your imagination.
Poems For All Occasions is sectioned off into separate chapters on fantasy, nature, life experience/inspirational, love, funny, spiritual, places and people, seasonal, movies and other for poems that don't quite fit into one category.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Louise Lake
• Release date: Aug 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310727801

Louise Lake

Louise Lake is a UK author that writes in a variety of different genres including: horror, dystopian sci-fi, fantasy, young adult, historical romance and poetry. She has had a number of poems published into separate anthologies by United Press and Forward Poetry, and a few articles published into newspapers and magazines such as Take a Breaks Fate and Fortune and her local paper Wakefield Express. Louise has also worked as a writer for the Wakefield Literature Festival, where her story was brought to life by live theatrical performers. She is currently working on a number of books including: Poems For Kids, a sequel to her historical romance debut Arabella, and a number of young adult fantasy books, including a four part fantasy series titled The Three Kingdoms. Her favorite authors include: Stephen King, Darren Shan, R.L.Stein, Paulo Coelho, Rhonda Byrne, Jane Austen, Stephanie Meyer, Suzanne Collins, Casandra Clare, Veronica Roth, Nicholas Sparks, Bella Osbourne and Bella Forrest.

Book preview

Poetry to me is the perfect balance and construction of beautiful words and rhymes that are bound together within a catchy verse.

I have been writing poetry since I was young but there is still much to learn about the different styles and variations of poetic phrases.

Most modern poetry today does not rhyme but to me a poem is at its best when rhyming is incorporated into the verse. Whatever poetry you may or may not like or whether you believe they should rhyme or not, all poetry is constructed by the poet to build a verse of sheer delight to intrigue the reader with pure excellence in every line.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy reading my book and I look forward to bringing more collections of poetry out in the future.

Dedications

I would like to dedicate this book to my parents Michelle Lake and Eddie Lake who have always supported my poetry and listened to me read them out when no one else would.

I also want to thank all of the people who have believed in me over the years and everyone who has inspired my writing.

Thankyou to my closest friends Sarah Turner and Vicki Ellis for supporting my work and the rest of my family, friends and work colleagues at Pic Group for your continued support.

Contents

Poets Statement

Dedication

Chapter One: Fantasy Poems

Chapter Two: Nature Poems

Chapter Three: Life Experience/Inspirational Poems

Chapter Four: Love Poems

Chapter Five: Funny Poems

Chapter Six: Spiritual Poems

Chapter Seven: Places and People Poems

Chapter Eight: Seasonal Poems

Chapter Nine: Movie Poems

Chapter Ten: Other Poems

The Creature Feature

Last Words

Chapter 1: Fantasy Poems

Foreword

Fantasy is a very special subject within our world as it allows us to imagine anything that we can see within our minds eye. Our imagination’s greatest achievement is the variety that fantasy creates.

I enjoy writing fantasy the most of all genres as I like the idea that anything is possible, any creature that I think of can come to life on the page with added rhymes along the way to create a poem, not in the usual style but as a short rhyming story instead.

Let your imagination soar as you read each poem and try to imagine each and every character in great detail, you never know they may just inspire you to write your own.

A Choice of Two Worlds

Since I was young I’ve lived under the influence of vampire,

Waiting to take the world by storm and create my own empire,

An empire of savage creatures with a liking to blood,

I want to tell you a secret but I don’t know if I should,

This secret is known by only a select of earth,

But before I tell you I warn you of no mirth,

My secret is my being my creation and my chapter,

The next chapter of my endless ever after,

From this comes pain, deception and cruel,

My secret is a war between man and beast a duel,

My plan starts with the taking of lives,

Mankind will suffer from all death brings,

We will steal and change their former wives,

Reborn to a leadership of beastly kings,

Last breaths of inhaling their blood lost corpse,

Vampires ruling another planet with power ridden force,

For now the secret is yours to keep till the end,

I hope you choose well my half-blood friend.

All Hallows Curse

They’re hairy and scary,

You should be weary,

Of the captain and his skeleton crew,

They crushed a fairy,

And all went leery,

When the witches boiled their brew,

They crawl through your windows on all hallows eve,

Kidnapping children leaving no time to grieve,

They’re silent and deadly with their swords,

Brainwashing children to believe they are lords,

It’s a blood boiling mission to retrieve,

The souls of children the witches receive,

All hell will break loose upon the day,

The captain and his crew are lead astray,

When the witches boil their brew,

Resurrecting the captain and his skeleton crew.

Beyond Earth

Aliens crawl on the moon at night,

They find their way by starlight,

They appear in a ship long and bright,

At the speed of sound to be out of sight,

The suction on their skin helps them remain,

As activity bounces inside their brain,

Their skin is slimy and wet like a fish,

Their eyes are hollow and slightly reddish,

They raise their heads to watch planet earth,

Imagining the day of an apocalyptic rebirth.

Damnation

A dark angel with wings of steel,

A bounty hunter with souls to reel,

Once you’re in you can never escape,

Unless you’re revealed without skin in a cape,

A minion lost in the world of souls,

Channelled through deep dark holes,

Slipping away from the brim of the knife,

Crossing through the afterlife.

Entrapment

One day I heard a voice coming from the trees,

I gazed into the forest and the voice decreased,

Still I couldn’t shake this feeling of wonder,

With no space within my mind to sweep it under,

Daring with adventure I stood my ground,

And walked into the forest to follow the sound,

It grew much louder as I neared a bush,

And then faded into a silent hush,

The bush grew tall with hands and feet,

Followed by a hand ready to greet,

Big red eyes popped out to my surprise,

The colour of crimson murdered skies,

I stood in a fit of utter panic,

The creature must have thought me manic,

Because within a blink of my eye,

The creature had left me high and dry,

My entrance was blocked with no way out,

Leaving me trapped without a doubt.

Evolution

Once long ago before our time,

There lived mermaids descended from slime,

One known as violet was born from the darkness,

To put a discovery to the test,

The discovery was of the land beyond,

Beyond the water that would break her bond,

Surrounded by green trees that made their mark,

Large clumsy creatures tarred through the bark,

One with wings flew into the sky,

As violet gazed up high and wondered why,

Why her kind hadn’t dominated this land,

And crawled off shore through the sand,

As she swam for pearls for the queen,

She wondered and imagined if it was a dream,

Deciding it was time to leave the ocean,

Violet put her story into motion,

She swam to the shore to get a close view,

Already missing her home the only one she knew,

She glided up onto the sand,

And slowly crawled onto the land,

Her breath grew short as she turned to leave,

But then the air filled her up and she began to breathe,

Rays from the sun burnt scale after scale,

And formed a skin beneath her tail,

She crawled for days with her tail in a flap,

Until it hit a sharp rock and began to snap,

Her tail split forming two pieces,

As she stood and walked her fin formed creases,

The creases transformed into two flat bases,

Two feet that allowed walking in many places,

A water born creature producing mankind,

Of her former existence none can find,

This is a theory of how we began,

On the day the mermaid set to her plan,

Now in spirit she is a goddess,

And will forever be remembered as none the less.

Forbidden Love

There once was a fairy, who rode a unicorn,

Who once met a warrior by the name of Thorn,

He was built with muscle from head to toe,

And was captured by the fairy’s sunshine glow,

But they couldn’t be together by magic law,

Even though each other they dearly did adore,

They asked a goddess to break this law,

But she only replied, ‘this would lead to war’,

So the warrior and fairy decided to part,

Holding one and other in each-others heart,

The fairy had immortal beauty but the warrior grew with age,

And began to reach his life’s final stage,

The law was then dropped and the fairy flew to his side,

Only to discover her only love had died.

From Beyond the Grave

Here comes a tale of forgotten lore,

Derived from the lips of the maiden Lenore,

The prince wished from