Peonies + Coffee: Five Phases of Love Poems

By DEVIN LURENZ

Romantic Poems, Prose, and provocative short stories relatable to any relationship status. Peonies + Coffee attempts to express in detail emotions exhibited in a person's search for love, externally and internally and feelings evoked when love no longer exists in a relationship.

 

Five Phases of Love transports the reader from Seeking Love to Losing Love and the stages in between. Learning to love one's self, although difficult for some to master, should be paramount to one's existence before attempting to love someone else.

 

Poetry has a way of looking into a person's soul. It explores the innermost thoughts and feelings through prose. Embark on a sentimental journey and surrender to the emotions, some that tap into areas of the heart that have been long suppressed and in desperate need of release and illumination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DEVIN LURENZ
• Release date: Aug 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393129615

DEVIN LURENZ

Devin LuRenz is the author of provocative fiction novel, Turned Out By Lust and the Bashful Butterfly (Self-Love Poems for the Soul). She lives with her family in Delaware. Visit her website at www.devinlurenz.com. Find more poetry on her romance blog, www.devinlovesromance.com and Instagram, @authordevinlurenz.

Book preview

PEONIES + COFFEE

Not long ago, I didn’t like me,

In my mind, I had nothing to share.

A little brown girl, too skinny to see

Did not feel welcome anywhere.

Skinny and brown, before it was cool,

Many waking days spent in fear.

I hated most days when I was in school,

Smart enough to answer, but too shy to volunteer.

My dear loving mother tried to uplift me,

She would try to point out my beauty.

She could see things I refused to see.

I was convinced it was her duty.

Lost in myself, not sure who I was,

Or who I wanted to be

At the time, as a child, nothing was obvious.

All that was good, just wasn’t me.

PEONIES + COFFEE, cont’d

Recalling one day, when I was much older,

I began to feel empowered.

There were more faces like mine, albeit bolder,

I would stop hating me and not be a coward.

Confident brown women, with large lips like mine,

Beautifully skinny, thick and all in between.

I could accept myself now, it was my time,

I was no longer afraid to be