Showing results for "Love Notes" in Poetry

Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning. Vivid and approachable, the work gathered here invites listeners to rediscover commonplace wonders and find new beauty in topics ranging from moss to mortality.

Allow the poetic expressions of Eloquent Love Notes to guide you through a journey of admiration, love, and raw emotions. The author desires for you the experience the beauty of words written from the heart. The author wants you to search within your soul to explore love at its most purest form.

In a more romantic era, I never would have been allowed to marry my wife. She would have married into land and wealth and I would be awaiting my trial for heresy somewhere. But before her wedding and before my outbursts against the power structure, I would have nightly dipped a quill into ink and scribbled out my feelings in long, poetic tomes. And on the gallows, as her nobleman husband pulled the lever, my wife would have held tight the letters against her chest, feeling my last thoughts comfort her.

The origin of my healing journey began with a seemingly innocent request to God asking him to make a path for me toward a more authentic existence. In return, my life completely flipped upside down and everything I claimed as my truth gradually began to disintegrate. Lavender Heart Tea explores my ongoing healing journey through a collection of love notes to my inner child, monologues to my adult self to better help reparent the inner child, and various short stories and poems that creatively explore various revelations and "ah-ha" moments I've experienced throughout my journey.

Through her poignant and thought-provoking poetry, Jodi explores what it means to search for happiness, confront our deepest fears, and embrace the truest parts of ourselves. Her work raises questions that resonate deeply within us all, such as, “Once we find happiness, are we allowed to stop looking?” and “Why is the truest part of me always the one I'm most afraid of?”

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives. Voted...