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    Suffixes for Love
    Suffixes for Love
    Suffixes for Love
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    Suffixes for Love

    By Lou Boltonia

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    Whether you are someone recovering from a lost love or alone and content as it is, you may find the poems within "Suffixes for Love" reflect your story. These poems formed during the course of a tumultuous--and failed--relationship that reflects the apathy a person experiences after parting ways with someone important to them and highlights the value of true love within one's life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLou Boltonia
    Release dateApr 12, 2019
    ISBN9780463276532
    Suffixes for Love
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    Lou Boltonia

    Lou Boltonia is a musician, poet, community volunteer, aspiring botanist, and author of Suffixes for Love. Being a lifelong poetry writer, Lou put together "Suffixes for Love" as a debut poetry collection of an amalgamation of poems over the course of the last few years. He creates verse on all subjects--but the natural world and the people who love it are the main focuses of Lou's work.

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      Suffixes for Love - Lou Boltonia

      dedicated to:

      those who don’t necessarily

      find solace in a

      single night,

      those with diaries ripping

      at the seams with

      unspoken ideas.

      to all those unrequited lovers,

      in imagination.

      to those people.

      the—truly kind, selfless

      people who

      give knowing no recognition will come,

      let those they care for read their face and answer

      when they call.

      those alone but, don’t find themselves lonely,

      for they know the value of the world

      and the all-encompassing love that surrounds it,

      to every fleeting hope

      each surge of random compassion.

      to every person that feels,

      human.

      Suffixes for Love

      By Lou Boltonia

      Copyright 2019 Lou Boltonia

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favourite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      I Only Loved You More

      I. THE DARK-LINED SPACE

      the point at which December fades

      Honeysweet

      Volatile

      Resonance

      By the Line

      A Necessary Truth

      Hazy Windows in Misty Nighttimes

      Wound Anew

      II. THE VIEW FROM UP HERE

      Bittersixes

      glass whims. whistles to the wind.

      Love Is a Quick

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