The Other Side of Silence

By Joy Adams

"The Other Side of Silence", collection contains everything from beautiful soulful poetry, to the humorous and heart rending.

This experienced writer has distilled her life experiences into little works of art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joy Adams
• Release date: Jan 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311416131

Joy Adams

I have previously published some poetry and these appeared in anthologies, however "The Other Side of Silence", is my first collection of poems.

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Copyright Joy Adams January 2016

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Contents

*Children

*The Rule Book

*Aqua Arnemetiae

*Although I Held None

*She River

*Heart

*Fields of Glory

*Her Reign

*It is You We Are Trying to Love

*Never

*Promise

*Riddle

*She Passes

*The Pearl

*The Sea at Albufeira

*A Day in the Life of Water

*Hush

*It’s the Lightness of Things I Want

*Making Hay

*On Harter Fell (The English Lakes).

*Rain

*Stretford, Sunday

*The Unspoken Thing

*Snow Queen

*That Certain light

*The Abandoned Husband

*The Beltain Fires

*The Last Place

*The Other Side of Silence

*Words

*Contact the Author

CHILDREN

There is a tightening, a filling,

and my belly is grown,

from the secret gestation

of blood and bone.

I place wet fingers

in a fruiting womb, and with

a visceral slip or a hard labour,

these children come.

I give birth to ciphers, cadences,

songs and a river of sound,

then find myself breathless,

at living forms.

I would hold these babies;

lullaby them in my arms,

they would rest there humming,

never lost or spurned.

But they squeal to be out,

so full of themselves,

and how they secretly preen,