Almost Home

By Toni Poll-Sorensen

I have moved a few times from the place where I was born. And I have done the tourist thing about wanting to own a piece of paradise. I have had friends come and go in my life. Sometimes they moved or died. Sometimes they just move on or away from our friendship.

This collection of poems is about what occurs in the process of searching for a home. Some of us find home in another person. Some find home in a place that we may or may not inhabit. Many of us make a home in a house we call our own.

My own home is not where I was born. It is not where I went to college. It is not my first house. It is not where I raised my children. It is not even where I currently live. I explored many questions that I had about where home was as I wrote these poems. None of these poems answer the questions, but all of them point toward a way of finding a special place that is almost home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543453430

Toni Poll-Sorensen

Toni Poll-Sorensen is a retired dancer, choreographer and dance educator turned poet. This collection of fully illustrated poetry is her eighth collaboration with her former colleague and friend Mallory Maria Prucha. Toni is currently a student of piano, acting and yoga. She works as a Commercial Model in Florida and is now living in her dream in a home on the beach. Her goal is to celebrate the next ten years in the happiest and most profoundly physical way possible.

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Copyright © 2017 by Toni Poll-Sorensen.

Illustrations and Photographs by Mallory Maria Prucha

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Rev. date: 09/28/2017

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Just Breathe

The Lonely Little House

Primal Force

Eccentricity

Another Glass House

Endless Contradictions

2016

The Miracle of Birth

In Another Time

Someone You Love

The Space Between

Wise Enough To Know

A Cluttered House

My Heart, My Sacred Heart

Spontaneity

Neglect

A Quiet Space

I Will Miss This House

The French Café

Reminiscence

The Silent Treatment

Self-Awareness

The Trip Up

Another House, Another Story

The Red Bannister

Answer The Phone

The Climbing Tree

The Vacationers

My Way

From The Balcony Of Memory

The Bones of My Country

Four West Texas Storms

Before Winter

The Iris Farm

Dusk at Santa Teresa

The Solitary Isle

Kelly Confectioneries

Homecoming

My Time

Where Am I?

Almost Home

Dedication

This volume of poetry is dedicated to my early family of parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins. They each gave me a place of home and a sense of belonging. Consequently, I always knew I could come and go and still be welcomed home.

Acknowledgments

I am deeply honored to have worked with Mallory Maria Prucha, my gifted illustrator, in bringing one more