Colors of Poetry

By Violet Eicher

I know you can overcome the things you're struggling with today, and every day to come. How do you ask? I know because I've been there, I've seen the ugly in the world. I've been hurt by the ugly in the world, and I've taken it and turned it into something truly beautiful, poetry. So, I've compiled all the poems I've written since the first inpatient program I went through as a young child where I participated In a creative writing class. That class and form of therapy changed my life. My hopes and dreams are that whoever is reading this, wherever you're reading this you not only read it you feel it too. I'm hoping that you can take comfort in my words and relate to every simile, metaphor, and idiom within these pages. I hope that whatever precious soul is reading my book can feel in my poetry that you are never alone because I'm only ever gonna be a few steps away. All you've got to do is walk to your bookshelf and I'll be there for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665510813

Violet Eicher

Violet Eicher is a child at heart. She loves to do things that take her back to her childhood including things like coloring, singing (especially Disney), painting while getting very messy, journaling, and writing poetry. Violet had a creative writing class when she was a young child and that opened the door to much more creativity. She found her poetry to be a very great coping mechanism and a fun outlet. Her hope’s that her poetry will help people all around the world not only connect, but also see that they are not alone. When Violet struggles, she goes to her pen and paper and let’s loose with her similes and metaphors not only explaining her thoughts and feelings but transferring them from inside, through the ink in the pen, to the paper. Hoping that one day she will inspire and help those who read them as they do her.

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Published by AuthorHouse  12/10/2020

ISBN: 978-1-6655-1078-3 (sc)

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Contents

What If?

True Love

Trigger Warning

The Wind

The Thought Of A Kiss

Shadow

Scars

Russian Roulette

Rape Joke

Deadline

Plato’s Poet

Perfectly Intangible

Peaceful as Snow

Overnight Stay

Overdose

Once Upon a Book

Nothing

No!

New River

Nature in a Nutshell

Natures Romance

Mother Nature

Mom

Memory Trap

Little Toy Gun

Just Because

If I Were Summer

I’m Cinderella

I’m a Mermaid

I Love You?

Hello

Handle with Care

Going Home

Fragile Feathers

Flowing Confidence

Feeling Thrown

F.W.B.

Etch and sketch

Dreams

Depression

Dear PTSD

Dead Roses

Clean Slate

Boys Will Be Boys

Blind Rage

Belief In Love

Attention Whore

A letter to myself

(Bully)Mia

Unmasked

Love as a Lake

What If?

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What if I told you I wanted to die?

To hang myself, then REALLY fly.

What if I said I couldn’t take this anymore?

I’ll take some pills and fall to the floor.

What if I said it gets worse at night?

My demons wake up; I’m unable to fight.

What if I lied and said I’m alright?

There’s nothing wrong, then bid you goodnight.

What if I left with no goodbye?

Get what I wanted and finally die.

What if I took my life with a knife?

Cut vertically for once, watch the blood spread like lice.

What if I left and nobody cared?

No one would notice I guess that’d be fair.

True Love

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If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t know what true love really meant.

I wouldn’t feel the peace inside; I wouldn’t feel content.

My throbbing heart filled with love needing dusted, cleaned, and polished.

For all the love I’ve developed for you leaves me here, astonished.

If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t feel this tenderness romance.

This truly crazy circumstance has nothing that it lacks.

My once broken heart had been waxed; all the cracks had been filled in.

If this is true and I do have you, I’ve developed a permanent grin.

Everyone near and far has