Angel Wings: Poems of Love, Loss, and Redemption

By Nichole Conley

Angel Wings stretches the emotional boundaries of the human heart by exploring the concepts of love, loss, and hope. Author Nichole Conley shares her pivotal life experiences with unique perspective as her poems depict love in many forms, losses that come with loving deeply, and the power of self-discovery. Her words encourage spiritual reflection by challenging external limits in favor of examining emotions and internal conflict. Immerse yourself in heartfelt poetry, and challenge yourself to search the depths of your soul to discover a richer and more varied understanding of your place in the heart of the human condition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491748183

Nichole Conley

Nichole Conley is a freelance writer and poet with a BA in English. Though she thrives at creative projects, such as writing, sewing, and crafting, she greatly enjoys spending her free time with friends and family (and her many cats!). Her favorite pastime is finding ways to push the boundaries of understanding by asking questions and connecting with others.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-4819-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-4818-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014917225

iUniverse rev. date: 10/15/2014

Cover Photograph by Mehdi Adilian

Internal Photography by Mehdi Adilian and Omid Adilian

Contents

Dearly Departed

Revelations

Surrender My Heart

A Barren Body

The Importance of Duality

Missing You

Memorial Garden

Haunted

Never Alone

Taking Flight

Your Life, Your Story

In Mourning

Encore

Eternal Emptiness

Dreams

Kale, I Miss You

Disappear, Why Don’t You?

The Hateful Disease

Watch Me Go

Angels

Someone’s Hero

Faye-thless

To Fill the Void

Echoes

Beautiful Beloved

Guiltless Love

Refracted Light

The Wall

The Value of Other

Only One

My Loving Dad

My Dear Mother

Unborn Promises

Ever After

Release Me

Lock and Key

When I Forgive You

Shattered

Free-Falling

Deference

What’s Meant to Be Shall Be

In Equal Measure

Valid Love

Easy Like Breathing

No Time to Love

Brave and Selfless Souls

When I Felt You

Finally Free

A Winter Thaw

Worth More Than That

Distortion

Walking Away

Spirit Writer

Broken Promises

Finding Me

My Sunrise

Above the Rest

Detours

Bubble of Grace

Making Choices

Fleeting Spoils

Flicker

Promises

Inverted Priority

Alone Again

Through the Fire

Effort

Sunshine

Clouded Thoughts

Cropping Roots

Your Wings

Nihility

A Seaside Sentiment

Breaking Through

Life in Pictures

My Game

Vortex

Fight It

A Noble Dance

To Jayme Faye. Without her brief life, the world would surely be a much darker place, not only for me but for all of us touched by her beautiful and everlasting light.

Dearly Departed

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Photograph by Mehdi Adilian

Revelations

If I could see the world through your eyes,

I would take a snapshot of each moment

And hold it in my heart,

So when