Love. It’s the complex chemistry of a blind heart and a dreamy mind. Love is a shapeshifter. Love walks along the same path as hate. Love makes us whole. Love makes us weak. Love drives us to insanity. Love can be a curse. Love is a miracle. Love is a universal language. This collection of poems takes the reader on a journey through the complexities of that simple four letter word. Curated by FeminineCollective.com, many from this collection have been published on the site since its beginning. Others you will read are new pieces that were written just for this collection. The writers of these poems are award-winning Authors, Journalists, Bloggers and Activists, while others are previously unknown artists. The voices of the forty-four contributors are diverse. The poems are a collective made from a global community. The authors are from Canada, Central America, The United Kingdom, The United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, South Africa and The United States. Written by women and men, between the ages of fifteen and seventy, each poem is unique in every respect. They are raw and unfiltered accounts of each poet's feelings regarding, the love of a child, the loss of a family member, sex, dating, marriage, divorce and finding love for one’s self.
Julie Anderson is the creator and publisher of FeminineCollective.com and Feminine Collective Media.
Feminine Collective, an online magazine that prides itself on offering a platform for essays, stories, and poetry that break traditional boundaries. Considered a literary magazine with bite, Humanity, Raw & Unfiltered stories are what we are about.
Author, Blogger, Poet, Editor, Julie is also a proud mother of three unique children.
Fatally and flawed, beautifully and broken, Every step you take, every thought you think is a miracle in itself. Do you have any idea how miraculous it is that you are even here? So many wish they could be where you are? Doing what you do? Do you know how many people have come before you, how many generations of you it has taken to get to who you are right now? You have worked your whole life to be at just this moment. You are star stuff, baby. Plain and simple. Hurdling through space at a thousand miles an hour on our little planet we call earth. Just that alone makes you a miracle, but you have so much more to do. So many places to go, so many people to see. Your journey has just begun, no matter how long it may seem to you. You are just beginning. Each day, one step closer to completing the task - completing you. You are growing, learning and taking your first steps in to the mystery we call life. Grab hold, embrace it. Look around and really see who you are. Your eyes, finally wide open to the possibilities of you.
You are a miracle.
You are star stuff.
You. Are Love.
The poem from this beautiful book spoke to me so much and thought I would share it here.