Measured in Heart Rate: A Mini Collection of Poetry

By Madeline Mitchell

Join me through this mini collection of poetry that will take you on a journey of love, heartbreak, pain, and healing. This is the story of a heart falling apart and transitioning into one that is whole. These are the words that saved me when no one else could and the pages I've filled with personal experiences that have shaped me into who I am today. These poems will not put you back together, but I hope they encourage you to begin that process on your own. The meaning of it all is for you to discover, because the depth of emotion can not be explained, it can only be measured in heart rate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781649692429

Book preview

One

Sometimes it feels like the world is an ocean and our hearts are meant to be glass bottles of untouched emotions that drift across the sea. Devotion to romanticizing silence has been illustrated and rolled up inside like a hidden treasure map or a love letter but the beauty in unexpressed feelings never really spoke to me.

An open book is how I see myself - picked up and looked at hundreds of times with eyes that offer different perspectives, but not many ever take more from it than what is offered at first glance, mixed with a teaspoon of their preconceived notions and very little acquaintance. 

When looked at by someone else, my lips will quiver but my heart will dance and tell the stories of the mountains I've had to climb and how the climax is falling to my death and forgetting what it feels like to be alive. 

Truthfulness is a flavor that is acquired but I've come to discover that having a room full of people inspired isn't worth dipping my lines of poetry in lies so