Love Speaks Volumes

By J. Mel Brooks

This is a book that speaks boldly to women and men about emotions of the heart and soul. The poet’s words shoot arrows of love and dismay with unclothed emotions of lost love songs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796026160

J. Mel Brooks

A native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, J Mel Brooks resides in BALTIMORE and has been active in the poetry scene in the area for many years. Most recently he’s been involved with Ho co M WA. This is his third book of poetry. He has facilitated poetry groups at Clifton T Perkins hospital Center and women’s correctional Institution in Jessup md. He has also hosted poetry events.

Book preview

Morning

Day breaks with soft gray light

Swirled with pink and blue

Tears tumble from

Weeping eyes

Blurred with distant

Visions of you

Lonely is the hole left

In the hollow of the soul

Time passes and patches

Slow healing wounds

Head bowed

You walk in silence

Karma

This woman…

This woman veiled

In shadow

Sits in my mind

Like a thought

Struggling

To form.

Her breasts full

Her nipples

Inviting me

to suckle

Her words plump

And ripe

Like the fruit of April

In need and hunger

I consume the fruit

And wait for sunrise.

Soft

Oh sweet scent of ambrosia

By name other than thine

You still are you

Your frangrance skirts

The air

Your beauty unfolds

Around midnight dreams

In the soft glow of moon

And dawn’s quiet light

Gone

Love’s/Sorrow dances

A slow