Found the Shell but Where's the Pearl: Collection of Poems

By Celia-Frances

A poetry collection that purrs, with poems that paint a gift of art with sable verses and prose of every emotion you thought you knew – but only guessed were real: to find that answer, that reason, that pearl of wisdom in understanding the world around us, the people we love and the reason we care. You'll find yourself looking for the pearl, because now you've found the shell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796084337

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Copyright © 2020 by Celia-Frances.

ISBN:       Softcover               978-1-7960-8429-0

                 eBook                     978-1-7960-8433-7

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Rev. date: 01/27/2020

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To my three Wise Men: Robert, Jordan and John"

CONTENTS

A Gift Is A Glimpse In The Heart

Going Home

A Separate Separation

A Spin Or Two

Anastasia Cat

And If It Is The Dream

And She Persisted

And So The Circle Closes

As I Recall The Year

As If There Never Was

If He Were Within Reach

At Just The Time

Because I Was Afraid To Fall

Bereaved …

Birds Of Paradise

Bookmark

Called You

Curtains Up

Captured

Chocolates Melt

Choices

Closed Captioned

Combustion

Complements

Compromise

Dark Whistle

Dreaming Was A Passed Time

Dreams Can Only Live As Long

Dreamweaver

Eclipse

Enrobed

Fear Appears A Dampening Mist

Fire Brand

Fireplace Dreams

Flashcard

The Galilee Storm

Go This Way

Golgothic

Goodbyes For Now

Grace

Grief

Guessing At Dimensions

He Waits Beyond Himself

How Apropos The Moment

How Glorious To Have A Friend

How Many Times He Asks

I Am The Final Ripple

I Had A Friend

I Heard The Voice

I Want No Less

I Will If That Is All

I Wonder Who I Was

If Ever There Were Tales

Impressions

In All The World

In Looking For What I Have Seen

Incendiary

Insight

Intrinsic

Irony From The Heart

Jehovah Rapha

Just A Man

Launched

Legacy

Light Blind

Listening Only To His Hands

Look For Me

Lookout

Lover’s Tiara

Lulla Bye

Nameless

Never Seen Your Face

Nuance

One

Pain Throbs A Fascination

Perspectives

Planting

Poets Never Speak

Priceless

Puzzled

Rainbow Water

Remembering

Rendezvous

Rude Awakening

Sandscript

Senseless

Shaded Jaded

She Swooned

Sight Is What The Heart Believes

Sleeper’s Digest

So Near

Sometime Between

Southern Women Series: Teaspoons

Southern Women Series: The Front Porch

Spectacle

Stray Savant

Struck By Lightning

Swallowed Whole And Helpless

Tea And Tears: Comforting First Grief

The Earth Would Shake

The Glittering Destruction

The Hammer Never Made A Sound

The Pulse That Feeds

Then Give Me Reasons

They Say That Brilliance Blinds

Touchstone

Unshaken

Values

We Reached Across Too Wide

We Wave Goodbye

We Would Be Stars

When I Cannot Agree With Me

Who Can Will Write

Who Cry The First …

Will You Wave

With Just A Polaroid

Would Ever I Have Chosen Twice

You Have No Reason

You Struggle For The Strength

A Gift Is A Glimpse

In The Heart

a gift is a glimpse in the heart that has given

                            a look into treasures

                            of memory’s store,

a moment of presence in love’s inner sanctum

that etches the face of a friend evermore;

                a vision we see, not with eyes,

                            but with touch -

a profile of friendship that I’ll miss

                            so much -

                            I give you

the place in my heart where I go

            to cherish that part