Wild Flower: A Book of Love Poems

By Michael William Worley

Love, if left to the hand of an artist becomes a thing of beauty.

But love, if left to the imagination of a poet becomes the embodiment of humanity.




Michael William Worley

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481792578

Michael William Worley

Having attended the school of hard knocks and graduated from the university of life I feel I have gained sufficient qualifications to publish my second book of love/life poetry. I have attempted to combine free verse with prose and traditional rhythmical metred verse to convey my deep love of life and the natural world around me. I'm most fortunate to reside in the heart of the English shires amid rolling hills and picturesque villages. A place of tranquil beauty that provides a perfect atmosphere convivial to poetry.

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© 2013 by Michael William Worley. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 05/01/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-9255-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-9256-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-9257-8 (e)

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Slow Down

Marooned

Woman

The Clairvoyant of Conscience

The Girl Who Likes Plum Jam

Trapped

Natures Stage

Thoughts

Teignmouth & Shaldon

Her

The Broken Heart of a Young Man

The Grumpy Young Oak Tree

Postponed

The Wind That Blows

Do You Remember

Bitter Sweet

I Wish

Dancing Amulet Of The Air

Wild Flower

The Vanquished

Hope Lost

Wild Wind

A Frosty Wonderland

Pastoral Solitude

My Love

Disappearing Beauty

Mystical Land

By The Waters Edge

Childish Faith

Tempus Fugit

Surprise Yourself

Wasted Love

Grief Too Deep

Elusive Shadow

If I Can

Silent Flower

She Makes Me Smile

Impatient Girl

Silent Love

Weeping Willow

Rustic Rose

Shadow Man

Rewind Time

Genteel Season

Light

Solitary Journey

Intimacy

Always Mine

Fatal Kiss

Brampton Past

True Heart

Gossamer Wings

Shaldon

Liquidity of Thought

How

Love Comes Softly

Radiant Light

If I Didn’t Exist My Love

Loving Refrain

Alone

Behold the Day

Restless Flower

Remember

Snowdrop

A Moments Thought

Hope

Life Friends

The Same Old

Cruel Fate

Dedication

I dedicate this book to love… .

Love, the inspiration and driving force behind romantic poetry.

Love, that invisible mystery which occupies a place in all our hearts.

Love, that intangible strength that hypnotises the mind and penetrates the soul.

Love, that indefinable magic that blinds the senses but provides those under its spell a glimpse of paradise.

Acknowledgements

I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my good friends Angela Casey, Ian Costello, Ian Topham and Colin Hargreaves whom have kindly donated a selection of their beautiful photographs, a number of which I have taken great pleasure including in this book.

In addition, I would like to thank my mother for being a constant in my life and for her love, support and humour.

Finally, no one walks alone through this life and I am most fortunate to have an angel walking beside me providing guidance, inspiration and love

Slow Down

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Life, this rush, a fleeting dream that hurries us from

birth to death.

This continuing carousel of confusion,

wonder, sorrow, enlightenment.

Half ones life spent looking forward with hope,

the other looking back with regret

This fine embroidered weave that links all in time

through thought, word or deed.

A somnolent overriding emotion of inconsequential transience,

the singularity of our beginning dulled by our obvious

inevitable end.

This immense craft of nature we call earth that carries us through

cold inhospitable darkness to its final conclusion as does our faith which carries us to ours.

Slow down; absorb the countless pleasures this world offers before death’s door finally closes shut.

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