Sea of Pools

By Kevin Robinson

We can only really know about love and life in hindsight. Looking back on this linier poetic experiment called the Sea trilogy, Ive learnt a lot about what is important about the bigger experiment.
Through poetry I have been able to look deeper into my own, and others, prejudices and fears, loves and obsessions, and I can honestly say I have been unburdened by this release of words, and in many ways, Im very much healed.
For me, nothing beats the ability to reach down to the soul and transform that intangible entity of fragile mortal thoughts into a substance that will transcend beyond the barriers of even death. Nothing beats poetry.

Kevin Robinson

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491893074

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Published by AuthorHouse   03/03/2014

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Contents

Foreword

Author’s introduction

Cross my palm

Never at peace

Obsession

I have loved your face

Weather reports

Better to have loved

In your eyes

Good intensions

Fishy-bite scars

In distance there is hope

This watching world

The perfect human egg

Five hundred years

Can’t you see?

Awakened

The swimmer stronger

I recall love

Leaving

Vintage love

Almost true

Wear and tear

The merry joining of the twain

Extinction

Unwise

Faith the design

In dreams recurring

Precipitations for love essential

The Broken Land

The final flock

I thank you

The likes of we

The apron string

The peace of men

Time shall never fade

We are a most imperfect race

The atheist said

The atheist said (Sonnet)

Numbers

Numbers (Sonnet)

Inescapable

Adrift

Cooling

The Aberdeenshire child

The marriage bed

No fishing

How nice

I don’t believe in God

The book of yesterday

Wishes

Crash and burn

Old reprobates

Quarantined

I think it best

All hope divorces

Resolute

Victory

The quantum itch

A very English brew

Force majeure

Pure gold

Nematode

Laying the ghost

Love’s betrayal

Reassigned

How innocent and young

Be content with love?

Forever as they be known

I confess

The wonderful collective

A gift for my sweet valentine

Our chemistry

29.8%

Cheating death

No mortal destiny

A detail of no importance

Tipping point

Where is my love today?

Imperfect matter

End-less-me

Terminal five

A fleeting while

Scented paths divine

The heartstring

That old hayloft

The walls of Eden

Run

Powerless

Methylated

Last request

Sleep for now beauty wild

A most honourable death

New fields

Something and nothing

A short romance

I don’t know

Already dead

Love in thought

Old currency

Dutiful construction

Only one

In the wake of things

The broken rule

At last underground

Why?

Quite so green

Lightning

Tremble

Sunday’s Sun

The final blame

Matter much

All true worth

Reset

The shine

Sizzling in December

I have your heart

I am haunted

Sex

The world and all its shades

Still in love

The touch of your hand

Almost everywhere

My window

Most truly

If love between us dies

Right here

Branded lovers

The dowry

The counting of time

Again be mine

Awakening

A girl so fair

Slow and separate

I must confess

Immortal love

I look upon your beauty

Rapture

Happy birthday

Happy to bleed

The philtre

Mortal existence

Which way?

The swirling clouds above

I have not known true love at all

Everything is so flat today

Long-distance love

Missing you

By Mooreland Tarn

Love at first sight

Love in beauty calls

Our star of love

In truth not lies

Trust

Love is all we have

Our love

Where the angels go

Old enough

The still and quiet table

Our gentle source

Heaven

Bless the child

Love and life retain thy shine

Love’s dream

Everlasting

A single breath

Emergency

Halloween

Precious

New star

Few

The robin

I wait

Flat-line

In Paradise air reborn

Barefoot on cinder pavements

Wordy dishes

NICE

Far beyond the past

Of love I thought my days were gone

Flowers from a weed

Love and pain

Broken-hearted

Past and by

One look

Faultless

Lost in space

Linked inextricably

Don’t be sending

Bittersweet

This silent land

Defibrillation

Missing you

The heart’s gazette

I feel the breaking of my heart

That one day

Purified

My cat

The family tree

The open way

The poem of a misfiring heart

Sad love poems I am forgiven?

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Words like raindrops and puddles like poems made a home of a sea, their fulfilment of destiny was always the Sea of Pools.

Foreword

Sea of Pools is the final 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 poem, 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

We can only really know about love and life in hindsight. Looking back on this linier poetic experiment, called the sea trilogy, I’ve learnt a lot about what is important about the bigger experiment.

Through poetry I have been able to look deeper into my own, and others, prejudices and fears, loves and obsessions and I can honestly say I have been unburdened by this release of words and in many ways I’m very much healed.

For me nothing beats the ability to reach down to the soul and transform that intangible entity of fragile mortal thoughts into a substance that will transcend beyond the barriers of even death. Nothing beats poetry: