The Tenth Awakening

By Margaret Liu

Ever since I learnt the existence of words, I had always enjoyed the art of them and often obsessed over the beauty of literature. Between the ten years of eight to eighteen, I started to express my own emotions and thoughts through the form of poetry whilst writing more infrequently in my diaries. In my personal opinion, poetry is one of the finest forms for expressing one’s philosophy and creating a unique universe for your imagination to freestyle in. Now since thoughts are not limited by words as words are only the carrier of thoughts, so as soon as my thoughts leave my head, they could be interpreted in your own way. Poetry became a much larger part of my life ever since the pandemic of Covid-19 begun, I wrote more poems in the past year than all of the poems from other years combined. Whilst being fully aware of how the pandemic had disrupted many people’s lives including my own, one beauty of it is that it paid me back with plenty of ideas that I most possibly would not have got if things were to be otherwise. This poetry collection includes most of my works in English from the past ten years, I have made my best attempt to hunt down all the locations I could have possibly situated my words. Though, needless to say, I am undoubtedly aware that there are still some works I didn’t manage to retrieve and that they are swimming around in my pile of notebooks and files to this very day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665588782

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The Tenth

Awakening

Margaret Liu

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/12/2022

ISBN: 978-1-6655-8879-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-8878-2 (e)

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CONTENTS

Foreword

The Tenth Awakening

2011

Snow

The Moonlit Lake

Candy Floss Sky

2012

Falling Tears

Mother’s Day

2013

My Teddy Bear

2014

Alcohol

Time

Sigh

Table Tennis

Happy

Crystals

In the Deep Blue Sea

2015

Adaptations

My Fault

What’s Your Life?

November Afternoon

Scraps about Life

2016

A Bad Christmas – WW1 Poems

Blood and Guns – WW1 Poems

The Maths Test

2017

Damp Day

2018

Gone

Mess

2019

Clown

2020

In the Tent

Thank You

Slanted Crown

Cyprinoid

A Piece of My Heart

A Road Too Far

Eighteen again

Chaos

Childhood

Untold

I remember

Master of many

Little Smile

The last pages

Remember?

Lucky Charm

2021

Old Start

This Day

Doubt

Breakup

Tomorrow

Trapped

Mixed

Crowd

Light

Movies

The Fall

Afterword

Extras: Author Descriptions

FOREWORD

Ever since I learnt the existence of words, I had always enjoyed the art of them and often obsessed over the beauty of literature. Between the ten years of eight to eighteen, I started to express my own emotions and thoughts through the form of poetry whilst writing more infrequently in my diaries. In my personal opinion, poetry is one of the finest forms for expressing one’s philosophy and creating a unique universe for your imagination to freestyle in. Now since thoughts are not limited by words as words are only the carrier of thoughts, so as soon as my thoughts leave my head, they could be interpreted in your own way. Poetry became a much larger part