Perseverance: A Collection of Poetry

By Veronica J. Valentini

This awe-inspiring collection of poetry, guides readers down familiar roads of life, love and heartache. The author intertwines personal life experience with an intriguing intensity of passion and multitude of deep human emotion.

In Veronica's words: "Poetry to me, is an inaudible voice crying out to be heard, the connection between the heart and soul more so than the head.
Poetry is beauty, sadness, pain, hope, glory, defeat, inspiration and motivation, all tied in together with a sprinkle of love, from the author."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Veronica J. Valentini
• Release date: Jul 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311421159

Veronica J. Valentini

Veronica Jadelynn Valentini, nicknamed Jade, was born on March 23rd, 1970, to mother, Joann, a former model, nurse and grief counselor and father, Maurice, a pharmacist. She was raised in Ohio, California and Arizona.Veronica is an accredited author-poet, screenwriter, script editor-consultant, ghostwriter and independent film producer. She also writes for several entertainment blogs across the internet and dabbles in freelance voiceover artistry for local TV and radio advertisements in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

Book preview

Three Things

Three things hold you

Free yet fettered

Soaring but bound

Like air tied with twine

Beautiful but bent

You refuse to be restrained

There’s more to living

To life, to being

Three things hold you

Here, there and far away

One, to touch

Two, to see

Three, to contemplate

Rustles, ripples and radiance

You see through the spaces

You smile at the waves

Lapping away at your expectations

Ripples of random realities

It should have been another day

A smile like that of the sun

Fun yellow but searing hot

The heat of battles

Battles within, fights indeed

What there cannot give

Faraway may bring

Shining glorious hopes

Upon cool waters

Waters and light

That soothe your toes

Toes tickled by the same here

For the three still hold you

Here, there and far away

Take Me Away

A thousand dazzling lights

A million more torchbearers

Skyline and sea line

There is no dividing line

A unison of colors

A triumph of honors

From height to depth

Ridges and bridges

Burnt and built

There is no argument

One craves the north

The other the south

Two ends of a broken pole

We laughed at caves

And welcomed the fields

Fields that turned to flowers

Flowers that blossomed to trees

Trees that turned to mountains

And mountains that grew to the stratosphere

In all we were safe

Safe to dream

Safe to swim

To drown or to float

We could be our genesis

And still our ending

Fear is celebrated in bravery

Of roots and pills and