Shore Pine Bonsai: And Other Poems of My Journey

By Rea Anne Scovill

You are always there in your loving,
Restless awareness, so very present
And intense in your longings.
Like the marsh bird cooing in the dark,
Always probing to know more
Of life, of love, of me.

Decades ago, Rea Anne Scovill transformed the anger, fear, and grief related to childhood experiences into positive life’s work. Now in her debut collection of poetry, she unveils a lifetime of epiphanies, beginning with a poem penned when she was just fourteen and ending with one created six decades later.

Scovill’s poetry utilizes trees to express human traits and nature-infused stories to describe human experiences. In sometimes haunting verse that invites contemplation, she illustrates a rainbow of emotions including anxiety, frustration, intimacy fears, loneliness, and trauma. Within her more playful poems, she also celebrates the freedom to love, laugh, and rejoice. Softly woven throughout the collection is her sense of reverence for the overwhelming beauty God has spun to cushion what can sometimes be a rough human journey.

Shore Pine Bonsai shares thirty-eight poems that utilize the imagery of nature to reflect on intimacy, grief, self-realization, and joy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728313450

Rea Anne Scovill

Rea Anne Scovill is a psychologist and author of the book Called Claim Your Own Mental Fitness, a step-by-step, brain-based program that guides others from emotional pain and trauma to find love and happiness. For more about her, visit www.mentalfitnessformula.com. This is her first book of poems.

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Shore Pine Bonsai

and other poems of my journey

Rea Anne Scovill

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Published by AuthorHouse  05/24/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1346-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1345-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019906329

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Dedication

For Lola and Benno

The Journey and the Poems

Challenged to transform the anger, fear and grief she experienced as a child of a mentally ill mother, Scovill became a psychologist. In the early 1970s, before there was adequate treatment for trauma, panic attacks or depression, she found in cognitive therapy the tools she needed to overcome these disabling conditions. She used her insights to help others function better, serving in mental health centers, schools and group homes for abused adolescents, then, finally, in private practice.

In her last few years of work she wrote a book that would have helped her decades before. Desperate for relief, she could only