Sweet Poison

By Shaolin Poe

Poetry about life, love, pain, and hope that offers empathy and a new perspective on the common human experience. These poems touch both heart and mind, and remind you that you're not alone in your doubt, love, pain, wanderings, and personal victories. They remind you that when you feel most alone, you are having an experience shared by millions. A collection of poetry that is thought provoking and emotionally evocative.

Some of these poems are stories. Some poems are my deepest, private feelings. Some poems are my efforts to understand how other people see the world. I leave it to you to decide which is which, though I'd prefer the poetry in this collection resonate with you and tell your story in new words, becoming yours.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shaolin Poe
• Release date: Jul 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798224104574

Shaolin Poe

Shaolin Poe is the pen name for a husband and wife writing duo. Shaolin is a combination of their first names, and Poe is an homage to Edgar Allen Poe. They met in the military while flying on the same spy plane. They love to transport readers to unexpected places and showcase the humor of situations. When they aren't writing, they enjoy music, traveling, board games, and stand-up comedy.

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Contents

Dedication

Preface

1.Paradigm Shift

2.Fragmentation

3.Where is Here?

4.Absence

5.Counted Freckles

6.So Many Reasons

7.Who are the Great?

8.Fallen Angel

9.Speculation

10.Birth of a Prophet

11.Fiction

12.Chromatic

13.Forgotten

14.Introspection

15.I Like it Here

16.Evolution

17.Idiot Queen

18.Inarticulate

19.Dissolution

20.Be Happy

21.You

22.What is Real?

23.If Nothing Else...

24.Mercurial

25.Give Me a Moment

26.Forbearance

27.Be Still

28.Vociferous

29.Zealot

30.An Ode to Life

31.Post a Review

Acknowledgments

About the Author

To My Father

Thank you for always encouraging my love of poetry.

Preface

Some of these poems are stories. Some are my deepest, private feelings. Some are my efforts to understand how other people see the world.

I leave it to you to decide which is which, though I'd prefer that something in this collection resonate with you and tell your story in new words, becoming yours.

Paradigm Shift

Has it changed?

Or is it not

Exactly as it was before?

Has the world

Turned upside down

And inside-out from core?

My world is shattered

Torn apart

The feast of ravening beasts.

My hope snuffed out

My pathway lost

My heart a drought of peace.

But yet I cannot

In my frantic,

Frightened, frenzy find

What has changed.

For nothing

Has been altered but my mind.

What folly

What hypocrisy

We embrace with lies

As if our blind

Complacency

And charitable guise

Paired with feigned

Sincerity

And half averted eyes

Will prove to hold

The least excuse

For our reluctant lives

Or offer any

Consolation

For embittered cries

That we will weep

When we are forced

To recognize our prize.

Has it changed?

Or is it not

Exactly as it was before?

I cannot tell

For I am lost

And all that I adore

Is lost