A Kiss For The Worthy: A Love Poetry Trilogy, #2

By Frank Prem

Drawing on the phrasing of Walt Whitman's great late 19th century poem Leaves of Grass Frank Prem has produced a collection of expansive and outward looking love poetry written, as always, in the unique sty,le that allows every reader to relate.

 

Prem's interpretations breathe new life into contemporary exploration of themes of love in poetry, and utilise Whitman's original phrases to inspire a contemplation of the self in the context of landscape and the wider world.

 

a kiss for the worthy is the second of three collections that together comprise A Love Poetry Trilogy, with each revisiting outstanding work by stellar poets of the past to produce vibrant new collections. The first collection, walk away silver heart, draws on Amy Lowell's deeply personal Madonna of the Evening Flowers, while the third, rescue and redemption, derives from T.S Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

 

This is a new kind of poetry that tells stories, draws pictures and elicits emotional responses from readers.

 

Just as the best poetry should.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wild Arancini Press
• Release date: Jul 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781925963052

Frank Prem

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse.He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as ‘spoken word’.Frank has published several collections of free verse poetry – Small Town Kid (2018), Devil In The Wind (2019), and The New Asylum (2019). and A Love Poetry Trilogy (Walk Away Silver Heart; A Kiss for the Worthy; and Rescue and Redemption) in 2020, as well as a two part picture book – A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book and A Beechworth Bakery Bears e-Book (too).He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in northeast Victoria (Australia).

Book preview

a kiss

for the worthy

Poetry inspired by the Walt Whitman poem ‘Leaves of Grass’

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A Love Poetry Trilogy

Book 2

Frank Prem

Publication Details

Title: a kiss for the worthy

ISBN 978-1-925963-04-5 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-925963-05-2 (e-bk)

Published by Wild Arancini Press

Copyright © 2020 Frank Prem

All rights reserved:

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher and author.

This collection is dedicated to the world we live in.

How we are can tolerated,

only heaven knows.

Contents

About A Love Poetry Trilogy

Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)

A Kiss for the Worthy – Part 1

mmm-hmmm (this day)

see then sing (then rise)

in the midst I cannot think

is beautiful (this year)

much like the bees (with your permission)

a kiss (for the worthy)

atomically speaking

clean (this soil, my air)

born here (an immigrant son)

soft warnings

not until (I die)

wisdom (but only small)

sufficient (at the heart)

a singing part (of me)

in blossom wild (a nature boy)

A Kiss for the Worthy Part 2

a house filled (with the sensual)

what I am (a lapwing’s call)

every (working) man

espresso (no and no)

here (and there)

chance encounter (with a lasting liquor)

simply (forever) sensory

the day (by the bank by the wood) does what it may wish

not much left (of me)

only I

two air (one)

and why

which way (sustained)

better because

the need to test (for life)

inhale (my heart)

a stone (a shell)

bad wind (upon your eddies)

be this (with kisses)

the benevolence (plays)

baylis street (in a rush)

unseasonably (I wander)

being (the herald)

of day and of rising (to a song)

The Original Project

Source Materials

Author Information

About Frank Prem

Connect with Frank

Other Published Works

What Readers Say

About A Love Poetry Trilogy

A Kiss For The Worthy is the second of three poetry collections written for A Love Poetry Trilogy.

The origin of this work goes back a number of years to an occasion when I was fortunate to participate in a project that involved individual poets located around the globe.

Each poet chose a phrase from

Reviews for A Kiss For The Worthy

[railheater · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A Kiss for the Worthy is the second book in, A Love Poetry Trilogy. Each line in, “Leaves of Grass,” by Walt Whitman served as a muse for Prem’s creativity in this next collection. A Kiss for the Worthy, branched from the first book in its love between two people and delved instead into love and reflection for oneself.I thought the opening poem, “mmm-hmmm (this day)” immediately set a wonderful tone in how it conveyed the waiting beauty of perspective when love and respect for self is held dear. I also felt the joy that can be brought to others in this but for me it seemed this aspect was more a complement to feeling the fruitful contentment in the open-mindedness of “only I” and finding “the whole of me.” I think the best way to describe this second book of love poems is a kaleidoscope. It used many parts of the world to make me feel my own light inside was a little brighter, a little bigger, a little more. For me, I loved seeing and feeling every turn within this collection’s patterns.Many thanks to the author for the review copy of, A Kiss for the Worthy.