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    Upon the Inward Eye
    Upon the Inward Eye
    Upon the Inward Eye
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    Upon the Inward Eye

    By Alexis Dimyan

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    A heartfelt and personal collection of poems which explores emotions and experiences at the heart of human existence: love, relationships, desire, identity, sex and understanding. These poems seek to make sense and glean solace from the turmoil that so often torments the human soul in the struggle for personal satisfaction and happiness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexis Dimyan
    Release dateMar 21, 2011
    ISBN9781458177322
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      Book preview

      Upon the Inward Eye - Alexis Dimyan

      Contents

      A Pilgrim’s Poem

      A Vista

      Beacons Haiku

      Time

      Snapshot

      What are Days for?

      Words

      Volcanic Words

      Sky Magic

      Bad Dream

      Eye

      Le Travail

      Un Lendemain en Cuite

      Imagine I hadn’t

      Harbourside

      Embrace

      Happiness

      I love the Way you

      Fleeting Visions

      Beauty

      Breath

      Desire

      Feelings

      A Dilemma

      Out of the depths

      Summer Abandon

      Perspective

      A Plea for Amity

      By the Light of the Moon you Danced with me

      All at Sea

      Caught in Time

      Celestial Vibrations

      Dream

      Discordant Blues

      A Cup of Tea

      January Feeling

      Climbing

      Credo

      Grief

      After Reading Basho

      I Never Said

      Love

      Memory by Moonlight

      Lovers United

      My Heart will Remain in Brecon

      Skylarking Under the Stars

      Romance

      Look up

      Thoughts about MPs’ Expenses

      The Force That Drives me on

      Life

      Broken Dreams

      Free from Tyranny

      Truth

      Waterfall

      Walking Fragment

      Aroma on a Summer’s Day

      Years

      A Call to Arms

      Haiku on Love

      Dawn

      Preface

      This collection of poems is dedicated to

      all of you (saints and sinners alike), who have

      savoured and felt

      life’s joys and woes with great equanimity.

      "love holds me captive again

      and I tremble with bittersweet longing

      As a gale on the mountainside bends the oak tree

      I am rocked by my love"

      Sappho, Two Fragments

      A Pilgrim's Poem

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