Whispering Kisses Embroidering Love on My Soul

By Maria Psanis

Can pain, wars, greed, separation, and death teach us the meaning of love? Can we step out from our physical element and experience life as spiritual beings without the fear of being isolated? A collection of poetry describing life and the self, the loss of balance, the wonder of the unknown, the broken path, the anger of disappointment, the magic of the human touch, the wounded intimacy, and the relationship with God. The poet connects heaven and earth by removing icicles from the soul while opening doors for the heart to embrace a blissful light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504970761

Maria Psanis

MARIA PSANIS was born and spent her early childhood years in Athens, Greece. She immigrated to America with her family at the age of 12. Ms. Psanis received a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Hartford, and an associate degree from the Hartford College for Women. Ms. Psanis is a clinical psychotherapist in private practice in Simsbury, Connecticut.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/28/2016

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Contents

Celestial Tears

Your Journey

Only to Kill the Dream

Icicles Hanging from the Sky

Your Kiss

Swept Away

Reckless Winter

Fortune Teller

Your Cross

Pain

Forgiveness

Intimate

Oh! My...

Play With Me

Invisible Love

Words

Dear Alzheimer's Dementia

Joyful Pain

Waiting

Butterfly

Do You Not

You Come

Warrior

The Empty Chair

My Lord

Blindness

Aching

I Am

Do You?

Unwritten Poem

Thinking of You

Free

One

A Reflection

Our Souls

The Magic in My Heart

Without Negotiations

No One

Vicious Cycle

Nothing

I've Learned

Until

Metamorphosis

You Are

Love

The Zorba In My Soul

Greek Pride

Everyday

Lack of Trust

My Angel

Many Teachers

Fears

Conscience

Be

Our Paths

Trust

Loving You

If Only You Can See

A Master

Jealousy

Human Spirit

Without You

Your Invisible Soul

I Do Not Know

Don't

Refugees

I Don't Hear

Homeless

No Need to Need Our Needs

Only You

Blaming

Memories

Alone

Expired

Carving

Endless Dance

Your Wings

Tears Don't Let Go

Grieving

Time Alone

Echoed Woes

Void

You Aura

To Be

Mixed Thoughts of You

Oh!

Dearest Mom

Time

Once

Dust

Rain

O Wind

A Foreign Sun

Heroic

Nightingale Song

Miracles

Vigilant

Secret Memories

Lullabying

Silver Dust

My Rain

Comes and Goes

Egocentricity

Mid-Winter Blues

Poetry Books by Maria Psanis

** The Free Inhibited Child (1980)

** Thoughts, Love and You (1981)

** Immortal Shadows (1983)

** Today's Tears, Tomorrow's Laughter (1984)

** Searching for You (1989)

** Breaking the Cycle (1997)

** Asomatos Erotas (Bodiless Love) (2000)

** I Forgot to Ask God (2001)

** Agapi ke Thanatos (Love and Death) (2003)

** a Child, a Dream, and a Sling-shot (2008)

** The Wildflower and the Honey Bee (2011)

** Whispering Kisses Embroidering Love on My Soul (2016)

for you mom . . .

because our dance will never end . . .

Celestial Tears

Standing on air

the winds come, threaten

my transparent body,

divided between good and evil.

My eyes folded on earth

don't allow the celestial tears

to empty my silence

from my sleepy dove.

Millions of times

your voice penetrates to open

the rusty lock to my heart.

Without hesitation I turn

your stab still stuck in my back

dripping tears and pain.

Your hammer repeats

the anger in my veins.

You love me. How?

Your mouth, teeth, tongue,

abuses love,

cursing, blaming,

perpetual words,

hollow, piercing the echoes,

vibrating the foundation of my soul.

Broken are my roots in my eyes.

My blood, my guard

no longer segregate,

spilling repressed freedom of your violence.

A coward you'll always be,

killing me won't stop the truth

to set the sky on fire.

Your Journey

Roaming toward unknown days,

unforeseen the death of dawn,

with eyes filled with dust and tears

my naked earth inside

splitting, irreducible, to shred

the salty silence

from my foamy blood.

Restless, rejecting to see,

my purple wound

covers the light,

darkness breaks

agonizes over letting go

or holding on.

Time is running out,

my voice is numb,

the clock is powerless

the grief accumulates a winter

upon my windowsill

that enters my heart.

I see you wrapped

in fear and pain,

your echoes throbbed

in my kiss.

Hungry for spring,

your