All About Love and Then Some

By Nicolette Schurk

When I wrote that particular poem, Unhappiness, I was at my height of misery, not knowing where to turn. Finally, after fifteen years of a hell-like marriage, I ran. I took my two children, my daughter, aged thirteen, and my son, aged ten, and packed all our clothing and left. I stayed with a sister who lives in another state. I was on my own from then on. I finally had the courage to leave. My life was now revolving around my two children and self. We now had peace of mind, and we survived very nicely.

If anyone who reads this finds themselves in a marital predicament like mine, my advice is take courage, be brave, and do whats best for you and your children. You will survive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503514874

Nicolette Schurk

I wish to introduce myself to the readers of these poems and tell you something about myself, my personality, and what inspired me to write these poems. For example, the poem “Unhappiness” was written at a time in my life when I should be happy with a husband and two children. My marriage was a disaster, having broken an engagement to my first love, who I hadn’t seen in three years for being in foreign service. I never intended for this to happen, but this person (my husband) was very forceful on me. The result was my pregnancy. We were married, for I had no choice. I tried to make the best of my marriage despite my guilt. No matter how much I tried, my husband had problems of his own. He had a split personality. I endured his mouth and filthy mind and never fought back. I became inhibited and swallowed much. This had a psychological effect on me. I was unhappy and trapped to the core and suffered a guilty conscience as to what I had done to my first love. After ten years of being married, I received heart-piercing news that my first love had taken his life in a suicide. If my conscience was bad before, you can imagine how heartsick I was and still am to this day. There isn’t a night that goes by that I don’t think or dream about him and ask for forgiveness for what I had done. I had never stopped loving him, and I hope I will see him again someday.

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Contents

#1 All about Life, Love, Beauty, Friendship, Etc.

My Love for You

In the Still of the Night

Return to Me Someday

The Sunset

Thinking of You

Inspiration

As Long as You Love Me

That Old Gang of Mine

Mira

Mixed-Up Beauty

My Heart’s Desire

High above the Hilltop

My Desire

My Deception

Winter or Summer

The Night We Watched the Liner Go By

Slowly Out to Sea

The Rose That Grew

Never Judge

A Losing Game

The Lonely Mannequin

The Unemployment Blues

#2 Lyrics or Lyrical Type Poems for Songs

War and Remembrance

Lyrics for the Song Sleepwalk

A Phone Call

You Are

The Way to My Heart

A Land of Paradise

Why

I’ve Missed So Much

#3 Greetings, Sympathies, Wedding, Love, Valentine, Etc.

Infatuation

A Father’s Day Message

A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

A Sympathy

A Birthday Greeting (to a Child)

A Sweetheart Valentine (Single Rhyme)

To My Little Girl on Graduation Day

Spring Is Here

A Love Sonnet

A Sympathy

A Priceless Treasure

Wedded Bliss

My Sweetheart Valentine

#4 Comedy, Amusing

To My Dear, Dear Public

Two in a Shower

An Ode to Morris (the Cat)

Two Commercials (Morris the Cat)

I Made My Bed That Night

Honey, Sex on Your Mind

Marvel Sportswear

Two Empty Glasses Blues

The Bald-Headed Parrot and the Cross-Eyed Cat

#5 Spiritual

A Daily Thought

Just One Day

Not Free to Love

Then You Took My Hand

Life

My Man

#6 Prayer and Love Poems

The Man Upstairs

God Knows

The Lord Is Still My Boss

My Nellie Gray

#7 Emotions and Unhappy Moments

Out to Sea

Unhappiness

Inspiration

Tuesday Night (April 26, 1960)

The Last Page

It’s Never Too Late

Why Was I Born

A Reservation of Love

#8 Inspirational

Wish We Could

Just One