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Love Stories and Poems

Walk Away Silver Heart is the first part of a trilogy of love stories and poems in free-verse form by Frank Prem  that, together, comprise A Love Poetry Trilogy, It draws from the wonderful poem written by the American poet Amy Lowell in 1919 – Madonna of the Evening Flowers, using each line and phrase to form the emotional heart of a new poem.

From the phrase . . . but you are not there . . . comes the poem:

too much (to bear)

But you are not there

the chill
that touches
around my shoulders
is
a clue

the weight
within the silence
is another

I make a noise
while opening the door
but the quiet
dominates my sounds

I look around
momentarily
to find you

the hallway seems
a chasm
filled up
with emptiness
distilled

I look around
again
to find you

you’re not there

you are
somewhere away

in sydney
this time

somewhere
beyond the great divide

when you said
you would be gone
for a few days
it didn’t seem like
such an age

but you
are in sydney
and
this silence
is

too many minutes

too many hours

too many
days
and
just too much

you are coming
home
on the evening flight

the house
is waiting

and the soft plush bears
are waiting

the silence
is waiting

and for this
soft bear
it is
just
too much

The second love stories and poem collection, A Kiss for the Worthy, draws on Walt Whitman‘s classic work Leaves of Grass (1855), while the third, Rescue and Redemption, derives from T.S Eliot‘s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915).

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.