This is the essence of Joanne Sherry Mitchell’s latest collection of contemporary poetry, "The Pain We Call Love ... separation, time or betrayal. And that’s okay. It’s painful, but ...

pain, betrayal, shattered dreams, sex and death. Titled Give Me Room to Move My Feet, and published by Amalion Publishing, the collection has 100 poems that fall among seven parts: revolving lives ...

The poem, like many in the collection ... Examples from nature set up the pain of betrayal: And settled in to kill her. After a second example using a spore and a tree, the poet moves on to ...

What language moves the soul and a river of love in us? How do you express the deeper longings and feelings? What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious ...

Betrayal — defined as the "violation of a ... feelings of rejection and abandonment, and the pain of having been disregarded and taken advantage of by someone you love. Here’s the challenge ...

the brave compassion of these poems, both profound and hard won, is a rare and precious thing,” the judges' citation reads in part. “They’re intimate with pain, yes, with betrayal ...

it might just help stanch the pain of betrayal. All I knew about Congressman Ritchie Torres, Democrat from the South Bronx, was that he was a member of the “Progressive Caucus,” a group whose ...

Like a human soul, it holds immensities of pain, betrayal and love. You Must Read This is produced and edited by Ellen Silva.