Sea of Rain

By Kevin Robinson

Poems come to me unexpectedly, as does the weather to each day. Sometimes its fine and sunny and then its dark and stormy; often its something caught between these two extremes.
Just like the weather, I have no real control over the form each poem decides to take, and its quite a buzz being in the moment when a thought spills onto the page. Poetry most definitely has a life of its own, and at best, all I can do is guide it around the page and hope the reader likes it.
Love and melancholy are never far away in my poetry, and therefore, reflecting high emotions, they can soar to brilliant heights of glory or self-destruct in the deepest depths of doom. I make no apology for this, for isnt this just life? And if nothing else, my poems are all about life.

Kevin Robinson

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491893029

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Contents

Foreword

Author’s introduction

Love poems

Let me grieve

Each breath

Eyes

Depression

Blind faith

Dead

People

Perhaps one day

When worlds collide

Tock followed tick

Life on Earth

Wingless birds

Fragile and waiting

The gift

Love’s timely words

The loss of Paradise

Raise a glass

My chosen fate

A life less ordinary

The facts of love

Faith

We share

Some people

Unrequited love

Institutionalised

Rain

Once

Softly

A king without a throne

Multitasking

A just settlement

Forewarned

The diagnosis

Bending in the wind, but not breaking

My love

Only once

Two thousand and zero four

Indelible

The phenomenon loop

This educated man

Goodbye Agatha

The beautiful Lizzie Green

Five more minutes

A message will be said

V Day

The wisdom of hindsight

You cannot stop

Farewell my good friend

You and me

The cheating triangle

This finite resource

Bones

She loathes, despises and hates

Reborn

Thoughts

The answer phone

Agoraphobic

Both in the air

Sorrow

Confession

Love at first sight

Buttercups and marigold

The riddle

Prosaic sentiments

Autumn mist and diesel fumes

Seconds

Principles

A fair exchange

A legend of yore

Eyes tight shut

For sale

A man is

Journey

Within the arms

Treason

The loving crowns

Green not red

Love pauses momentarily

Strangers

Ithaca

Dust

To feel love

Ignore

Unsurpassed conceit

The Land of the New Horizon

A fool

Love’s diminished fifth

Murder

The voice

My loving of thee

Enough

We dare not go

At your feet

Landscapes

On a summer bay

If we again should meet

The flower

An unstoppable tide

Another day

The chastened fox

A promise

First kiss

Advice

The gentle hours

Mob rule (The Republic)

My funeral day

Invisible

For me not there

Oh so grand

Its loving embrace

Forty-eight

The final throws of youth

Shades of green

Secrets

Whisper

Words

The cost of love

The haunted

Men of men

The impossibility of age

Memory

Changing love

Say these words

Glow

One true love

Debt

A bigger picture

A crumpled note

Just one kiss?

Lost

Lovers and friends

Ignorant charms

The bubble people

An angel

Fires to burn

A vision from a lovely dream

Yet another summer day

Shopping for one

No commitment

The spell

My healing heart

The clock

Fidelity

China over stone

Sold

Unconventional beauties

Never again

Little remains

How it must be

A young fool

Once Upon a Time

Kisses

Remember me

No more in vain

A memory of you

Sail the sea

Never be freed

Long estranged

Triangles

A king’s rebirth

Never parted

Walk again

Back into light

Dare and Cheat

1938

Maturity

Atonement

How wide this land

Lip to lip

Choices

The haircut

I love you not

Rachel’s prodigious pen

Orchard Wood

The rally cry

Pools

Defined

Drip

Jest

The contract

Your patient friend

The iron gate

Such indignity

Our final choice

Chasing not catching

Forgiveness

Old I sit

L and F

The truth

Your wonderful seduction

A windswept land

The ancient oddity

The fall

The players

Ebb and flow

Love letters

Found by love

Feet be still

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Words dotted blank pages, like rain does the sea, till there were many pages of words and a Sea of Rain.

Foreword

Sea of Rain is the first book in the Sea trilogy.

Sea of Rain,

Sea of Puddles,

Sea of Pools.

Each book is a collection of poems, which, in turn jell with the whole series to give a comprehensive collection of 599 poems.

Every poem is numbered in chronological order, reflecting the changing themes that have run through the author’s life during the writing process.

Intriguingly, this linier layout effectively charts a literary journey of emotion that has led the author to the poet he is today.

Using this method, rather than cherry-picking poems, inevitably puts some early poems at a disadvantage, but the author has resisted removing, or changing content, or order to preserve the integrity of the process and to highlight the development of his writing tastes and skills. Strangely though, some of the perceived weaker poems have indeed become reader favourites.

The poems are not thematically laid out and the extensive expanding topics come hard and fast. The reader will quickly become accustomed to the sweet being equally followed by the bittersweet.

The collection will delight and entertain with rhyme and freeform in a myriad of versification formats. The poems will also enthral, bewitch, challenge and at times shock, so readers beware:

Author’s introduction

Poems come to me unexpectedly, as does the weather to each day. Sometimes it’s fine and sunny and then it’s dark and stormy, often it’s something caught between these two extremes.

Just like the weather I have no real control over the form each poem decides to take and it’s quite a buzz being in the moment when a thought spills onto the page. Poetry most definitely has a life of its own and at best all I can do is guide it around the page and hope the reader likes it.

Love and melancholy are never far away in my poetry and therefore reflecting high emotions they can soar to brilliant heights of glory or self-destruct in the deepest depths of doom. I make no apology for this for isn’t this just life? And if nothing else my poems are all about life.

Kevin Robinson.

Love poems

Love poems: the echo of unspoken word

Destined for another time and place

Words that avoid being heard

For fear, pain or disgrace

But to fade instead

Silent and glum

Culprit dead

Then

Blossom.

01

Let me grieve

What left long ago

Stays in my head

Squatting instead

To trouble me so.

Occupying me

Twinning thought

Feelings wrought

In sad entropy.

Highjacking

Without reason

Every pleasing

Mindful thing.

Tainted hope

Aims to deceive

The delicate weave

That helps us cope.

I love you still

You love me more

Invisible the flaw

That is my heart’s fill.

Your touch was sweet

I remember it so

But after the glow

Never