A Life’s Tapestry

By Patricia Stanway

My Poetry is at times raw, sensuous, evocative, and guarantees a stirring of all senses. Some poems will melt your heart, or arouse you, others will leave you with a myriad of acute emotion. Others will make you smile, even bring tears to your eyes. Some I hope will provide comfort in knowing you are not alone, even when life is not always kind.
I see us all as clay on a potter's wheel, life’s trials represent the reshaping of who we are, and that reshaping is never ending. My poetry reflects that truth, and expression of my experiences..
I do hope that you will join me as I share with you the journey through a particular time of my life,

Author
Patricia Stanway

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663219688

Patricia Stanway

Patricia Stanway was born in Derbyshire, England. At the age of twenty five she emigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and presently lives in Bromont , Quebec. She is divorced and has a daughter and two grandchildren. She recently decided to retire from teaching and give full attention to her passion for writing.

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Sensuality

Discovering Desire

Hungry for Love

Love

Fire

Reflection

Gentle Thoughts of You

Thinking of You Tonight

As a Flower

Unsure

Be Kind

Family

Grandad Ben Franklin

Music

Water Music

Searching

A Message from Within

Finding My Father

Loss and Pain

Remembrance of Someone You Love

Hidden Ache

My Shaping

My Lost Son

Disconnection

Deception

Discovery

Transformation

Lost

Essence of Prayer

An Encounter

A Journey

Fantasy

Invasion of Lust

Truth

Elusive Truth

Desire

Unbridled Passion

Airborne

Introspection

A Message Sent

The Joining

Wholeness

Reborn

A Walk to Heaven and Beyond

Nature

Godly Homes

Invasion of Thoughts

The Realms

A Single Flower

The Rose

Mist

Nature’s Prism

The Cure

Erosion of Faith

Mystical

Searching for My Father

Touch of Love

Final Resting Place

Works of Nature

Cosmic Pull

Withdrawal of I

Disbelief

The Revelation

Beauty, Sadness, and Wonder

The Return

Invisible

Abandonment

Born Again

Punishment

The Teachings of Life

Primitive

Numbness Returns

Reminiscing

Remembering You

Spiritual

I Am Going

Wanting

Seeking a Thread

Responsibility

The Star

Loss

Fading of Life

We Are

Looking

Wanton

My Cosmic Fortress

Concerns

Gazing across the Water

A Visitor from Hell

Unstoppable

The Choice

The Wiping Away of Capel Celyn

The Gestures

The Decision

Always Remember

I dedicate this book to my beautiful daughter Lisa, and

grandchildren Scarlett and Ziaray. I love you with all that I am.

Acknowledgement

I wish to thank my dear friend V. for his heartfelt support and encouragement over the years.

To Cristina, thank you for being with me on this journey, and for the hours spent together sifting thru paper, and hours of amazing conversation.

To Doug and Sue for your friendship, and sharing a place of refuge and inspiration.

To all my friends over the years, who encouraged me, I thank you all. I am blessed to have you in my life.

To my brother Philip, I love you! Thank you for always encouraging me.

Sensuality

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Discovering Desire

It was truly wonderous, and it could never be forgotten—

an eruption of passion never before had I unleashed.

A knowing that, deep within, I can never go back;

a pulsating need of you that for all times will never cease;

a devastation encountered never before; an intimacy never touched.

A fierce, lustful desire with a thirst that can never be quenched;

a toxic potion flowing, and my body crying out in the night

for the need in us to be always together, fused in light.

I circle above our bed of scattered flowers and smell the potent perfume,

floating higher and higher as your lips touch mine, devouring me.

As your tidal wave erupts through my body in motion, completing nature’s thrust,

you take me where you will, and I totally