Wanderland

By Carine El Natour

Adolescence is generally considered to be an age of confusion. With the whirlwind of emotions felt, teenagers are lost.

Author and poet Carine El Natour is no exception. She finds herself at a crossroads in her life that will determine the path she takes through the future. As she wanders in this world and in her thoughts, searching for a better understanding, poetry served as an imaginary kingdom that offered an escapeher Wanderland. The verses included here are the result of that wandering. They explore a variety of themes, from friendship to love and from beauty to depression.

Offering a guide for young and wayfaring souls with a dash of rhyme, this poetry collection presents a heartfelt walk through the mind of a teenager.

Starlight kisses
Under the rain
With my hands on his cheeks
And his on my frame
Taste as sweet
As candy canes.

Starlight kisses
In the winter weather
With open eyes,
Frozen breaths,
And a taste so bitter.
--from Starlight Kisses

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Aug 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781480820951

Carine El Natour

Carine El Natour is a high school student in Lycee Franco-Libanais Verdun. Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, she enjoys literature, music and all genres of art. She is still writing her own story, and her biography has only just begun.

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-2094-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-2095-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015948346

Archway Publishing rev. date: 08/26/2015

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Poems

Light

You, Me, and She

Crumbles

Night Thoughts

Pour Out My Heart

Escape

Beauty

Ink

Not My Sunshine

Paradise

The Pit

Ashes

Battlefield

Thinker

Ballad of Lovers

Lost Words

Sunset Orange

4:03 AM

Traveler

Like Happiness

Wall of China

Feather and Paper

Come Back to Me

Safe

Fate

Starlight Kisses

I Caught Fire

Midnight Bruises

Wanting, Needing

Music

Painting

Good-bye for Now

Dreaming

Voice

Undressed

Unrequited

Silk

To those who read my poems first, you were the first to read them for a reason.

Her thoughts do not last, so her pen must tattoo them.