These Words of My Body, My Mind and My Soul

By Erin Marie Miller

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 31, 2009
• ISBN: 9781477179482

Erin Marie Miller

Erin Marie Miller grew up in and resides in Billings, MT. She graduated from Skyview High School and attended Montana State University-Billings with a major in Secondary English Education. However, she never finished college. She has been writing poetry since she was about 7 years old. Her beautiful children, Destiny & Nicholas, and her struggles with bipolar disorder have been a constant inspiration for her poetry, among other situations in life. Erin has received 3 awards from the International Library of Poetry and Poetry.com for Poet of the Month. Although this book contains some poems from as early as 1992, the majority of the poetry in this book was written during the separation and divorce from her husband in 2001. Much of her poetry in this book is about depression, although there are some poems that are written about love. Erin is also inspired by such great writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Robert Service and Maya Angelo.

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Contents

51 Signs

A Simple Hug

A Winter’s Love

Again

And if you came

Anticipation

Auld Lang Syne

Because of Love

Benediction

Blissful Repose

Brave

By My Heart’s First Rhyme

Careful Words

Cast Away

Collage

Continuing My Craft

Convening With Dissonance

Dark Regret

December 1, 2007

Dejected

Destiny Tempest

Discontent-

Drawing Down The Moon (Villanelle)

Dreams

Erin’s Muse

Eternal Flame

Falling Asleep

"Fated Storm…

For Destiny Tempest Solari"

Found In A Notebook

He Knows

Heated Anguish

His Delicate Shadow

His Delicate Shadow II

How

How It Feels To Feel…

Human Clay

I Am Fire (Pantoum)

I Miss You

I See In Color

I Want

I Cast My Grief

I’d Rather Dream

In Love With You I’ll Die

Irony

IT

I’ve Dreamed

Lamentation

Last Evening

Listless And Longing

Lives No More

Lonely

Lover’s Loss

Loving You

Magick

Memories of Laughter

Memories That Never Fade

Missing You

Mom

Moon Whispers

Morning

My December

My Enemy

My Heart Is For You

My Heart’s Composing

My Lover’s Hands

My Right

My Sadness Sits Around Me

My Steps Retraced (Pantoum)

My Suit Of Armor

My Wretched Fear

My Love

My Steps Retraced (Unresolved)

Nature You Needed

New Moon

Nicholas

Nicholas Jay

Nothing But A Lie

Our Love’s Truth

Pale Blue

Passion

Past The Iris

Puerile Boys

Queen With Silent Crown

Quick To Find You

Random Thought

Remind Me

Rumination

Say Anything

Self-Assurance

Since Time Began

Something Beautiful and Breathtaking

Something You Should Know

Sorrow Lives

Spiritual Divination

Stained By A Man

Storm Without Peace

Take A Breath (Pantoum)

The Determinator

The Fray

The Last Fair Words

The Ocean

The Pride of Erin

The Letter I Died For

These Silver Streams

The Wretched Truth

Things I Think And Cannot Say:

Through Such Mortal Transgression

To Grandma Helen Miller:

To Know You

Touched With Fire (Rondelet)

Truth

Tsunami

Unabused

Underneath It All

Unrequited Love

Untitled

Untitled #1

Untitled # 2

Upon Contentment

Vexation In Despair

Watermarks

What It Feels Like For A Girl

When I Tell Him

When I Tell You I Love You

When The World Ends

Where I Am Today

Wind

With One Word

You

You Are My Favorite Place

You Never Said Good-Bye To Me

Your Words…Your Thoughts

This book is dedicated to my family & friends

who have encouraged me

and to all that have inspired me.

Love Always,

~*Erin Marie*~

51 Signs

There are 51 signs in front of my face.

There are 42 voices shouting at me.

I have come here to find what I cannot replace.

I’ve come with eyes open just waiting to see.

I have tried to erase what is now there for good.

With permanent marker, I write inside lines.

Some thought I could not, but I knew I could.

I’m just paying attention to 51 signs.

I thought I was cold but found my source of heat.

I thought purpose had left me but now I belong.

I spend the night under nary a sheet.

I breathe in my own air because now I am strong.

The cars pass me by,but where do they go?

I hear engines that roar just as if they were mine.

Their lights pave the paths that they have to follow.

Then, I see my reflection and know that I’m fine.

But when will the dust rise up and change air?

These 42 voices call freely my name.

And yet, I don’t feel like there’s anyone there

Who can hurt and abuse me, or clothe me in shame.

I’m ready for changes I’ve worked hard for.

The 51 signs show me my time is near.

I can’t keep myself from wanting more and more.

And though your voice is silent, I know that you’re here.

A Simple Hug

I gaze at you

with loving eyes

and feel your warmth.

I slide my arms around you,

lay my head upon you…

and it feels so right.

You softly kiss my forehead

and I know

this is just where I belong

forever.

I close my eyes

and bask in this feeling

of you holding me.

I know

that I will never let you go.

I love you completely…

Some may call it so,

but I know

this could never be just

a simple hug.

A Winter’s Love

I miss the joyful days of old.

I cry for all sweet kisses lost.

I ache for Armour from the cold.

I seethe the bitterness of frost.

I yearn for peace amidst chaos.

I long for my lover, divine.

I cry, for I’ve suffered a loss.

I’ve lost a love that once was mine.

His face: a painting in my mind.

Icicles drip like tearied eyes.

Snow melts upon my skin, I find,

Like hot sunshine in winter skies.

A winter morn could be so warm.

In Lover’s arms, I’d drown in bliss.

I’d suffocate within the storm

Of his intoxicating kiss.

I miss the kiss from softest lips.

It pains me not to love that way.

So far away like sailing ships,

I wish he was with me today.

I dream of days when love was new.

I dream of days when he loved me.

My life takes on a different