My Dawn Is Only Five Hours Away

By Dion Anja

In the first chapter of her debut poetry book, Dion Anja explores the turbulence of pandemic through experimenting as well as integrating metaphors and classical elements to mirror the dark side of human nature that is both ever-changing and fixed. Her poems include various themes like anxiety, death, insecurities, and isolation but she also offers a soothing magical realm with fairies and cats.

The content of some poems can be sensitive or triggering for some audiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dion Anja
• Release date: Jun 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393134640

Dion Anja

Dion Anja is a poet, writer, and author of Motion Sickness and My Dawn Is Only Five Hours Away. A lover of all things Gothic and uncanny, Dion has spent her college years reading, writing and breathing grotesque and ravishing characters. Her latest work is a collection of poetry about growing up, identity, and womanhood. She is known for creating chilling and gloomy landscapes in her writing. Dion is a literature major in Istanbul, working on her senior dissertation about women's trauma narratives. When she is not reading or writing, she can be found playing with her cat, taking long walks in the forest, or outlining another novel.

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My Dawn Is Only Five Hours Away

A Dark Poetry Collection

Dion Anja

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First edition: November 2020

ISBN: 979-8-552-79044-9

Also By

Motion Sickness: Poems (2022)

Content Warnings

This book contains material that can be triggering for some audiences.

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Contents

1.I Should Have Been Listening to the Lecture But Instead I Wrote This for an Imaginary Lover

2.Half Life

3.Let Me Pass This Earth

4.My Sentimental Muse

5.Dark Waters

6.My Dawn Is Only Five Hours Away

7.Oh, Andy

8.The Last March

9.Untitled Summer Feeling

10.On a Tree

11.Extra Extra

12.I Hate Summer

13.The Story of a Man Who Burned Himself

14.The Good Ladies

15.The Lake of Ordeal

16.Sometimes I Don't Try

17.Sequence

18.The Center Is A Pomegranate

19.Not Everyone Can Handle This Poetry

20.I am Art

21.Death Is a Joyful Evening

22.Song to My Journey on a Catboat

23.Poems to Hadrian

24.Poems to Romana

25.Poems to Odene

Acknowledgements

About Author

I Should Have Been Listening to the Lecture But Instead I Wrote This for an Imaginary Lover

MAY 23, 2020

i think i dreamed about you when i was lying on grass,

i memorized the sky for you,

i made a home with my bare hands.

the blurry pain between my ribs

brought you to me.

and i believed you loved me when

you shared the heat between your thighs

and all was even.

Half Life

JUNE 27, 2020

there is a cruel enemy that lives inside my soul,

picking up the the flowers of my