Walk With Me: A Poetic Journey

By S A Woodhouse

Following on from Pearls in Verse (2016), Walk With Me, a poetic journey, is a book of emerging, self-expressive poetry looking at relationships past and present, chance meetings, faith, mental health, our humanity and our beautiful world that holds so much healing for tired, wounded souls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: S A Woodhouse
• Release date: Nov 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370268023

S A Woodhouse

Hi fellow writers and readers! I have been a passionate reader from about the time I was 7 years old. I read through all my grade level books and began reading the higher grade readers. I also loved writing from about the same age and would spend any spare time copying words and sentences displayed around the class room. I wrote my first series in grade 3/4, about a worm and his ant friend, Wally Worm and Andy Ant, which I also illustrated. After high school I spent my time reading rather than writing and it has only been during the last ten years that I have spent any time writing- poetry, essays and unfinished stories. I love fiction especially fantasy, my fave authors being Tolkien, Pratchett, Carmody, McCaffrey, Sanderson and many more. I'm working on a second, longer book of poetry, Walk With Me a poetic journey.

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Walk With Me

By Shirley A Woodhouse

Copyright 2018 Shirley A Woodhouse

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David (Dickie) Greenway

childhood school companion who passed away2016

My husband, Milton 1954 - 2017

Table of Contents

Part One: Beginnings

Amazing World

Pearls in Verse

Life’s Scars

Creators Hand

Eternity

Salvations Plan

Faith?

To Seek Your Face

What Will Happen

Imagination

Early Memories

Are You Well?

For You

Did I Know You?

Chance Meeting

Farewell Friend

My Walker

The Stranger

Scarlet to Saint

Pewter Linings

Picture Man

I Love The Night

Burdens

My Friend, Night

Life’s Heroes

Unseen

Cypher

In Secret

Weapons of War

Urban Myth

Dodgy Cat

Roses Are Red

Golden Blooms

Windchime

Star of Bethlehem

Part Two: Journeyings

In to The World

Perception

Self-Reflections

Mirror Image

Farewell

This Strange Land

The Gift

It Is Serene

Departed Not Parted

Tears

There

Living

Spirit Whisperer

Passing Moments

Journey

The Paths of Life

Wanderings

Unfaithful Passion

Requiem

Disquietude

Reality Check

My Lie

Falling

Cleansing Rite

Peace

Battle

Schism

This Year

Arachnid

The Writer

Beachside Escape

Life Past

Swiss Winter

The Dance

A Word From The Author

Acknowledgements

Beginnings

* Amazing World *

The world is a gift

to the human race.

A playground of immense

beauty.

From the frozen

mountains high, their

heads covered in veils

of white.

To beaches of

azure, turquoise, aqua.

Forever lapping shorelines

thirstily.

Jungles of green

twisting, strangling, clinging.

Stretching high for the blue, arms of

wood.

The blazing, blinding

deserts of shifting, drifting

dunes alive and swallowing

all

Cities immense, dense.

Concrete dull, giant mirrors

towering over captive rivers of

bitumen.

Parklands of green

small jungles smuggled,

stolen to assuage our

guilt.

Swathes of gold and

hues of green geometric

grids of hay, wheat, rice,

food.

Brown, dusty vistas

stunted hideout growth.

Roaming creatures, herds

savannah.

Our bountiful playground

royal blue, robes of white,

spinning, swirling, enveloped

humanity.

* Pearls in Verse *

Cast not Pearls before Swine;

a well-known adage.

So I write my thoughts,

clearing my mind of baggage.

To find the Pearls so pure,

worth without price!

A perilous course;

reward enough to entice.

Sought treasures lay hid,

beneath sand and weed.

Some before our eyes,

are too comfortably perceived.

Like divers of Pearls old,

our breath to train.

as into the abyss

we descend time and again.

Those Pearls without price,

that treasure sought;

like oysters down deep,

are none too easily bought.

Our quest to be in the World:

and partakers not.

effort monumental

for a society that’s forgot.

We need Love and Courage,

with Honesty claim.

empathy cures all,

though through tales of pain.

Let’s use our stories as heroes.

Like a Superman,

use power for Good;

human connection to plan.

Wise words to be embraced,

illuminate shame;

destroy it’s hold.

Joy