People Leave, Feelings Stay: A collection of poems about breakups, healing, and the search for romantic love.

By L. Gerard

"People Leave, Feelings Stay" is a collection of poems about breakups, healing, and the search for romantic love. This is a selection of poems written over years of romantic connections of varying degrees. Most of us experience breakups, yet they still feel incredibly unique and specific. When you experie

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lauren R Bobersky
• Release date: Apr 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798218398071

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People Leave, Feelings Stay

People Leave, Feelings Stay

People Leave, Feelings Stay

A collection of poems about breakups, healing, and the search for romantic love.

L. Gerard

Lauren R. Bobersky

This is a work of creative nonfiction. Some parts have been fictionalized in varying degrees, for various purposes.

Copyright © 2024 by Lauren R. Bobersky

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review. For more information, address: lgerardpoet.com

First paperback edition April 2024

Book design by Lauren R. Bobersky

ISBN 979-8-2183980-6-4 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-2183980-7-1 (ebook)

www.lgerardpoet.com

For my family.

Table of Contents

I.   11

London   13

Anywhere   15

II.   17

Prospect Park   19

July   21

III.   23

Curved Blade   25

Pulse   27

IV.   29

Rue Saint-Honoré   31

Sackett Street   33

V.   35

House Party   37

Pool Party   39

VI.   43

Senescence   45

Traffic   47

VII.   49

Our City   51

Home   53

 VIII.   57 

Fall   59

Open Nerve   61

Author's Note

This is a breakup book.

Breakups are sad and also fascinating. I noticed something strange about my artistic life, that it is easier to create when I am some sort of heartbroken. My theory about this is that when we are sad, we are in desperate need for an outlet. We need the pain to leave our minds and our bodies, we just need it to