Darling Last Time

By Samantha Friello

Darling Last Time is a poetry book based on one woman's perspective of the many trials and tribulations experienced through living life. This work entails words of great courage and beauty, bringing a sense of conviction and honesty to readers; male or female, aging from the late teens and on up.

Darling Last Time entails the emotions experienced, as if on a timeline, through healing from physical illness, transitions which occur mentally and physically after the break-up or at the start of a new relationship(s), starting a new life, or gathering the hope and perseverance it takes to go on; despite numerous obstacles we may face in our lives.

Darling Last Time also exhibits a rare sense of humor, found in poems about your "normal" working day, housewives and their duties at home, fast food and the grand holiday experience!

Darling Last Time depicts the fashionably funny side of everyday events experienced by everyone. So, read on to experience a roller coaster ride; the towering highs and plummeting lows involved in life. Oh, and don't forget, there's a few laughs in there, too!

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 9, 2008
• ISBN: 9780595619290

Samantha Friello

Samantha Friello received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications from the State University of New York at Old Westbury. She has previously published six anthologies of narrative-prose poetry. She currently resides in the Southeastern U.S. with her family and beloved animals.

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Contents

Darling Last Time

AWESTRUCK

I MENTION THIS BECAUSE

CUT AND PASTE

CLOTHESLINE

LIVE WIRE

WEEDS

FULL BLOOM

HEIR TO THE THRONE

UNDER NO UNCERTAIN TERMS

CHICKENSCRATCH

SOLVENT

WORSE FOR WEAR

ONE MORE HOPEFUL ENDEAVOR

SLOW PROCESSION

THREAD COUNT

REPRIEVE

OF WHAT ONCE WAS

OVERBOARD

LONG ISLAND

DEAR MR. FRIELLO

DROP AND ROLL

PINAFORE

AFTER ALL

DISCONNECT

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

FEAST OF FISH

WITH A RESOUNDING NO

SET SAIL

SPILT MILK

ESCAPE

TISSUE PAPER

MAD RUSH

LEAKY FAUCET

SUITE

JINGLE AND RING

AFTERNOON TEA

LOVERS

SUNVISORS

GUT FEELING

BUSTED

ALL STOPS ARE OUT

TOLLBOOTH

OUR FELLOW MAN

RARELY

UNVEILING

UNRAVEL

WINTER WARDROBE

RUT

BABYSTEPS

MOUNTAIN MEN

UNDENIABLE AGE

DRIVING NAILS

PITSTOP

UPRIVER

THESE RINGS AND THINGS

BELONGING

BIG SURPRISE

COME OUT AND PLAY

COWARD

DEAD END NIGHT

ECHO

ECOLOGICAL WARS

HOUSECALL

LIFT UP YOUR OARS

TO GO

LABOR DAY

SOMEONE

INCONCEIVABLE

WITHOUT

IMPERVIOUS IMPROMPTU

IMPRISONMENT

IN SPITE OF CLEAN

MATING SEASON

THE UNFAIREST OF THEM ALL

NEW SONG

NOVEMBER BECOMING

PERILS OF FORFEIT

RED FLAGS

QUICK SAND THICKENS

REIGN UPON HER PARADE

SEESAW

REPLACEMENT

SLIDESHOW

SO LONG FOR NOW

SOULS REUNITE

STANDSTILL

SWAMPY RIVER

SWEET CANDY

THE COLLOQUIAL HOUSEWIFE

TWO YEARS AND COUNTING

UNMADE BEDS

WHITE

SHALLOW

THE COMMON COURIER

SLOW DESCENT

HEARTBEATS

SEA AND SURF

INBETWEEN

DARLING LAST TIME

About the Author

For Mom and Don

and in loving memory of my father,

Louis Friello

Thank you

God

Darling Last Time

AWESTRUCK

remember

fireflies and timbers

crackling and separating

in the fall

the myriad ways

you acknowledged

that I was the most beautiful one

of them all

a summer mystery

superseding any doomsday

forthcoming

for we wrapped ourselves up

in weightless bubbles

enchanting sea-salts

and fruitful, fragrant soap

silky bodies glistening

within languid aftermath

lounging freely

were desirous days

misconstrued

dear attitudes

never to improve

your lustful countenance

full of glitz and glamour

dripping off you

is rainwater

discouraging mosquitoes

from basking in your glow

I MENTION THIS BECAUSE

I mention this because

he was so good for me

he was the sun

draped over my body

he was every dream

enlivening me

to go on

but maybe sometimes

I have to let it go

presuming he couldn’t have loved

as much as I’ve had

for I could never have walked away

I mention this because

he was my haven

my only dream

I had thrown myself at him

as I’ve had so many times before

and as the wind turns to heartache

I slip away into nothingness

these haunting dreams of him

I mention this because

I am unable to sleep or eat

and the night drones on

effortlessly

my tired body

flushed of all emotion

tears like the river

seem unending

but I know

this devastating hurt

will slip away

eventually

and maybe

he has left me

hurt and unassuming

but his memory

cannot be washed away

for this was to become my fate

all along

CUT AND PASTE

wasn’t she luscious

with her slimming, gripping thighs

leaking gray courage