Sentiments in Verse

By Kevin Robinson

When an occasion demands words, as they do, it's all too easy to blabber on and never actually say what we mean to say. Words then become hidden, like a raindrop from a cloudburst disappears into a puddle, emotions diluted by a tumultuous outburst. Being a bit of a blabbermouth myself, I decided to apply a little restraint and employ the economy of word when writing this collection. Saying all you need and making the point with four short lines has been the order of the day, well, for this day at least.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491893043

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/15/2014

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Sentiments

In verse

Author’s Introduction

Contents:

Funerals

To the closely bereaved:

For the lover deceased:

Weddings

On this your Wedding day:

Groom to bride (vice versa):

Love’s anniversary

The day we lovers met:

The day we lovers parted:

A new life

Father to mother:

To the expectant parents:

Missing you

To a lover:

Family, friends and places:

Achievement

Timeless love:

In the pursuit of life:

Birthdays

Young children:

The marking of time:

Life and weather

Loving storms:

Day after day:

Memories

Childhood:

As time goes by:

The year is old

Autumn:

Winter:

Friends

Friendships:

All creatures’ great and small:

Homes

Flying the nest:

New and old:

Love

Love and fate:

Love is all around:

Contents:

Children

Little buds and flowers:

Hopes, fears and teenage years:

Just to say

Fight the good fight:

Time goes by:

Holy Grails

Faith:

Love:

Living

In the city:

In the countryside:

Growing old

A season of fruitfulness:

Gracefully or not:

Cyclical love

Forever love:

Early beginning:

The year is young

Spring:

Summer:

Foreword

Sentiments

In verse

Is a collection of 800 four line (quatrain) rhyming verses. Classically themed but unusually defined. The twenty titles and subsequent subtitles cover subjects that are dear to all our hearts as we travel through life.

The collection will play with the heartstrings of the committed poetry reader as well as being an ideal introduction to poetic verse for the novice. Sentiments in verse is packed full of inspiration for anyone searching for those perfect words.

Easy to read the collection is delightfully humorous, romantically sensitive, and yet, as deep as the ocean it carries its poignancy lightly.

The collection will capture the reader’s senses with its addictive, turn-page qualities. As much an essential reference book of sentiments as it is an enjoyable escape.

Author’s Introduction

When an occasion demands words, as they do, it’s all too easy to blabber on and never actually say what we mean to say. Words then become hidden, like a raindrop from a cloudburst disappears into a puddle, emotions diluted by a tumultuous outburst. Being a bit of a blabbermouth myself, I decided to apply a little restraint and employ the economy of word when writing this collection. Saying all you need and making the point with four short lines has been the order of the day, well, for this day at least.

Kevin Robinson.

   Funerals

   To the closely bereaved:

01   A farewell or goodbye

Is obvious with a wave

As are all the tears we cry

The love in life she gave.

02   May you find Godspeed

To seize this day and win

Know the day will recede

But memories never dim.

03   Today we need not borrow

Nor us beg or even steal

Tears that show our sorrow

Our belongings to reveal.

04   Stop today with just a name

Standing stones our loss

In given time to roll again

Gather no more the moss.

05   Today carries all our sympathy

The poignant words we say

Only a day it just may be

How heavy must it weigh?

06   Crisscrossed lines you see

Simply kisses of support

They form a web of sympathy

In which we all are caught.

07   When us mortals understand

By God’s hand all life is written

To follow this almighty command

Would seem to be quite fitting.

08   Like a river’s timeless flow

Life meanders constantly

Both then as changelings go

To fill the vastness of a sea.

09   When the long day ends

Dust will settle on all grief

Little motes just like friends

From mess will bring relief.

10   As one sun is setting

Another will be rising

There is no sense in betting

Results are unsurprising.

11   Newton’s fine equation

Reactive to all changes

A mathematical persuasion

That all form just rearranges.

12   Questions we all ask

Search the grieving mind

It is indeed a mortal task

The answers we must find.

13   We cannot hide our grief

In salt lines a mark it traces

Deep the well from beneath

That empties on our faces.

14   Is this to be the final act?

Or is there more to find?

No one knows that’s a fact

But no reason to be blind.

15   Today my heavy heart

Cannot empty all its sorrow

When day ends and we part

I’ll grieve again tomorrow.

16   As days pass