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Love poems and stories

This time utilising lines and phrases used by T. S. Eliot in his remarkable early 20th Century poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Frank Prem  has produced a collection of companionable and introspective love poems and stories written, as always, in the unique style that allows every reader to relate for the third book in his A Love Poetry Trilogy collection.

Prem’s interpretations breathe new life into contemporary exploration of themes of love in poetry, and utilise Eliot’s original phrases to inspire a contemplation of the self in the context of landscape and the wider world. From the phrase . . . let us go, through certain half-deserted streets . . . comes:

a façade (of me and you) on the street

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets

through
descended darkness

loitering
between streetlamps

the night speaks
step
by step

in echoes
rebounded from the walls
of sundry buildings
wearing
genteel façades

we go
through vacant streets
deserted
with the sun

one fades

the other
disappears

until only we
you
and I
are left
alone together

as we have always been

speaking
to the night
in footsteps
and the tread of shoes

the only voice
a subtle distortion
of ourselves

a façade
of footfalls

an echo

The first collection of love poems and stories, Walk Away Silver Heart, draws on Amy Lowell ‘s wonderful work Madonna of the Evening Flowers (11919), while the second, A Kiss for the Worthy, draws on Walt Whitman‘s classic work Leaves of Grass (1855).

Frank Prem has used these outstanding poetic works by stellar poets to bring a new appreciation to what these poems represent, and to bring into being a mature love poetry of reflection and appreciation of what love can mean in its various guises.

This is a new kind of poetry that tells stories, draws pictures and elicits emotional responses from readers. Just as the best poetry should.

Prem’s other published work includes memoir (Small Town Kid, The New Asylum) and true stories (Devil In The Wind. Tragedy and truth. Find more of his work here.