The Evolution of Robins: A Selection of Poems

By Angel-Kate

Addie knows that she and Robert are kindred spirits – but what do you do when you meet your soulmate too early?

Best served with a mug of hot chocolate, wrapped in a warm blanket on a rainy day. Because rainy days are meant for reminiscing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984594020

Angel-Kate

Angel-Kate grew up in Tanzania, East Africa and moved to the UK as a teenager to continue her higher education. She acquired an interest in poetry and literature from age eleven and aspired to be an author ever since. The Evolution of Robins is her first published piece. Instagram: angel__kate2020

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Copyright © 2020 by Angel-Kate.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2020903487

ISBN:              Hardcover              978-1-9845-9404-4

                        Softcover                978-1-9845-9403-7

                        eBook                     978-1-9845-9402-0

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Rev. date: 03/10/2020

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Contents

Part 1   Just a Bird

Through the Garden Gate

Our World

No Words Needed

My Song

#11

Saved Me

Teenage Eyes

#14

Bittersweet Farewell

Part 2   Wanting Solace

Shooting Stars Don’t Go Very Far

Destination: Heartbreak

#18

Pinkie Swear

#22

How?

#26

Rebuilding

Missing You

#34

Good Morning

Someday Guy

Yellow Mountain

Part 3   To Evolve

Love Letters

#39

#42

Ghost

To the Others

Hangman’s Tongue

#46

Penance

#49

Changed

Nurture over Nature

Tell Me Again

#53

Into the Fire

#56

Lines Crossed

#64

Part 4   Into Something New

I Have Loved

It’s Okay

Where Have I Gone?

The Rift Valley

Reflection

The Rain

#76

Perspective

Big Girls Are Allowed to Cry

Unchained

#85

The Spark

#96

Eye of the Beholder

The Shapeshifter

#102

Shock of the Fall

#105

#366: Phoenix

About the Author

To the boy who set my world on fire,

And the man who pissed on the flame.

Thank you for the inspiration

And for showing me I had the strength

To stand on my own

All along.

Part 1

Just a Bird

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I met a boy in kindergarten.

He lived on the opposite side of the road.

And I hated him.

But my mother had always warned me;

There is a thin line between love and hate.

Through the Garden Gate

When