Love and Other Stuff

By Venessa Atson

Love and Other Stuff is a poetry collection that looks at the subject of love and things such as sadness, inspiration and thought provoking material to mention a few as seen through the eyes of the writer. Unconditional love is probably love in its purest form yet love means so many different things to different people. Some are good and some not so. In Love and Other Stuff the writer explores both sides of the coin to look at the good (as love should be) and also the bad but she also throws in a bit of humor, a bit of silliness and allows the reader into some of her most private thoughts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504943208

Venessa Atson

Venessa has always had a love for poetry and has been writing since primary school. She has a Certificate in Creative Writing and a National Diploma in Marketing. She is a lover of nature, a true people’s person and travelling is another passion she enjoys. She lives with her mother and sister in Grabouw, a small town in the Western Cape province of South Africa where she was born and raised. She is currently employed as a Communications Practitioner working for the largest electricity supply company in South Africa.

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Contents

Introduction

LOVE

Apologies

Back to Black

Beautiful Mess

Because of Love

Draw Me In

Dying Wish

He Really Loves Me

I Don’t Want to Fight

I Hate You

I Love You

Love Don’t Live Here No More

Love Isn’t Just a Word

Loved

Mistakes

One Day

Since the Last Time We Spoke

Someone Else’s Everything

Stolen Moment

That’s How Much I Love You

The Heart Wants What It Wants

There He Sat

Through the Tears

Underneath the Dark Night Sky

What My Silent Heart Screams

Where is the Trust?

Why?

You’re Not Even Here

SADNESS

19 Days

Darkness

Does it Make You Want to Cry?

Friends

I Found You Here

I had No Right

I Heard You Cry

Just You and Me

Last Goodbye

Last Kiss

Maybe You Can’t Help it

My So-Called Friend

Nowadays

Scattered Glass

So Close, yet so Far

Some People

Steps Forward

The Burnt-Down House

The Child’s Cry

The Faceless

The Once Cared for and Adored

The Powers That Be

The Street Walker

The Tall, Happy Man

They Don’t Even Know

They

Truth

What Did You Do?

Why the Young Has to Die

You’re Beautiful

THOUGHT PROVOKING

According to You…

Back to Normal

Broken Promises

Conscious Mind

Contradictions

Dark Cloud

Dirty Job

Forbidden Fruits

How Dare You?

I Still Remember

I Wonder

In the End

In the Winter of Life

It’s the Truth

One of Those Days

The Child

Truth

We are all Guilty

We are Sinners

What are You?

What is Yours?

Why Our World is Dying

INSPIRING

Be who you are

I am More

I Get it

I Will Rise

Message in a Bottle

See in Light

Stop the Fight

FUNNY

A Fool

It’s Fine

The Clock on the Wall

The Guy with ‘the Hair’

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

A Smile on Your Face

Change

Dear Me

Deep Down Under

Globe Trotter

How Can You NOT Love Travelling?

I Agree

I Just Made Someone’s Day

I Once Loved a Man

I Tried to be that Girl

I Want to Tell You

I’m an African

I’m Not Going to Change

If Only

Me

Motherland

My Favourite Movie

My Old Self

Myself

I Love This Town

Over You

Poets and Poems

SLEEP

Stuff

The Man

These Words I Say

They Say I’m Different

They Were Red

Train Ride

Who cares?

Why Do I Write?

You Know Who You Are

Friendship

MISCELLANEOUS

Cars

Devil’s Wife

Dirty

Five More Minutes

Grumpy Old Man

He’s the Man

I Believe

If Life Was a Fairy Tale

Snake

The Dream

Thoughts

HAIKU

Beach

Beat of My Heart

Been a While

Butterfly

Clueless

Darkness

Death

Diet

Dogs

Don’t Stop Me

Faded to Grey

Flies

Four Seasons

I Miss Summer

Ignore Them

In Times Like These

In Your Arms

Indulge

It’s Here

Just Me

Just Saying

Keep Me Awake

Last to the Bus

Lost

Love is Great

My Need

My Room

Nature

I Asked for Another One

Peace

Postcard

Questions

Shoes

Summer Scene

The Ant’s Poem

The Blushing Sun

The Moon

The Rasta’s Hair

The Taxi

What I’ll Do

Yesterday

SHORT POEMS

A Child’s Christmas Prayer

At Night

Before 12

Entertainer

Friendship

Have You Seen the Moon?

He Made Me Smile

I Need to Grow

Let Go

Open Book

Rain

Raindrops

Sleep Walking

Smiles

Sun

Sweet You Are

The Heart is Not a Toy

The Lost Has Been Found

The Things I Can’t Say Out Loud

Voicemail

What a Day to be Alive

What is the Point

Write Away

Introduction

There’s LOVE. That’s it

Then there is the absence of love

Then there are people who think it’s love

People who believe it’s love

People who act as if it’s love

People who wish and pray for it to be love

Love can’t be forced

Love can’t be bought

Love should be felt

Love should be nurtured

Love should be shared

Just because I, they, we sometimes call it love

Does not always mean that it is indeed love

It’s either LOVE or it’s OTHER STUFF

LOVE

The thing about love

Above all things

It’s supposed to be true

It’s supposed to be right for you

That’s the thing about love

- Venessa Atson

Apologies

He comes over every night,

Looking gloomy and sad.

He takes her bruised hand,

Presses his lips against it,

Stares into her red, swollen eyes and says,

I’m sorry.

A heart melts,

Hugs are shared

And then he leaves.

Tomorrow night, he’ll do the same.

He came, that morning

Looking gloomy and sad

No hand to take,

To press his lips against,

No eyes to stare into.

I’m sorry, he said.

Hearts melted

Hugs were shared

And he left.

Who will he do it to tomorrow?

Back to Black

Back to back, we do our dance

Eye to eye, we take the chance

Toe to toe, forth and back

Then we slip back to black

Left and right and side to side

Take my hand, please don’t hide

Under my shoulder and over my back

Then I slip you back to black

Head to head, so headstrong

We dance all night to our favourite song

Just when we think we got it all back

That’s when we fall back to black

Hand in hand, we trip and fall