The World Is A Dark And Lovely Place

By Carol Meiyin

A poetry chapbook that describes nature, the fear of drowning, friendship, love and loss in a world that is at times dark but beautiful. My writings here are somewhat influenced by the classic style of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost; but the words, the moods and settings are entirely my own. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: The InspirationHub
• Release date: Jul 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386049548

Carol Meiyin

The author is a high school teacher teaching English to 13 and 14 year old boys and girls in the southern state of Johor, Malaysia which is very near to the island country of Singapore. During her free time, she reads and writes poetry. She is a self confessed coffee addict, a part-time book reviewer, and a semi-professional piano player. Writing poetry though, is part of how she breathes in life and expresses her moods.

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The world is a dark and lovely place

ISBN: 9789670730448 (Print)

ISBN: 9781386049548 (eBook)

Copyright © 2020 by Carol Chu Mei Yin

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Published by The Inspiration Hub

Printed in Malaysia.

First Printing, 2019

Dedication

For Papa, Mama, Ben and Peter,

and for you too dear reader,

This book is for you.

Contents

Dedication

Dear Reader: A Note from Author

The World Is A Dark And Lovely Place

The Old Oak Tree

The Rainbow’s End

Rain

Untitled

My Little Butterfly

Drowning

A Memory

The Hearkened Heart

A Thousand More Miles To Go

Trust Not Your Broken Heart

On My Way Home

A Friend

Beautiful Friend

Missing You

The Breaking Of The Fellowship

Thank You For Being My Friend

The Hard And Horrid Truth Of Being Someone Utterly, Utterly Famous

Worry No More

I Remember When The Night Sky Called Out My Name

Words Of Wisdom

To Love In Doubt

For I Love You Like The Bird That Is Free

Enough

When Sleep Comes Not

Is This Love?

Words

Naked

All Those Times I Caught You Unawares

Those Ten Words

Something In Me That I Would Never Let Go

Silence Is Your Way Of Saying Things

Comfort Remains In Places That We Used To Know

When Dreams Come

An Epic Romance

What My Dreams Are Made Of

It Was But A Shadow Of Words I Thought

What Is In Me I Use Them To Write Myself Out

In The Pages Of The World Only Known To Bookworms

An Ode To Books

There Is No One In This World Like My Papa

Papa

Mama

Dark clouds

Dark clouds 2

Lost cloud

A Note To Remain True To Oneself Till The End Of Time

The World Is A Dark And Lovely Place 2

About the Poems

Acknowledgements

I Would Like to Thank

The Author

Dear reader,

Hi! I’m Carol Meiyin.

Just in case you are confused with the name on this book cover, just know that I had to put my full name there for both my parents’ sake. Without them, I’m a total nobody. God bless them.

These are my collection of poems that I have written ever since I was 19. The first poem I wrote was The Old Oak Tree. I remember those as one of my most inspiring times because I went on to write The World Is A Dark And Lovely Place, which inspired the title of this poetry book, and I continued it with The Rainbow’s End and Rain, both of which got published in The Star newspaper in the year 2008. (Yes, I’m that ancient!) The rest is history.

This book was originally published as a poetry chapbook on sites such as