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- Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
Growing through rough times is painful, it's difficult, and most often it's not a linear journey. Healing is like growing pains; even though the route hurts at times, it's worth it in the end. This poetry collection is split into three parts; Sprout, Grow, and Bloom. Like the life of a plant we heal trauma through these stages. In the beginning it's challenging, things look darker before we pierce through the dirt. Then follows a rough road of progress and setbacks, victories and failure. A long game of acceptance and endurance. In the end, when the growing pains finally are over, we can bloom and thrive like we were always meant to do. Growing Pains is about healing from the darkness in life and beginning to see the light, growing through the pain, and to notice the small things that make everything worth it. Makes the growing pains worth it.
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To the person holding this book;
I hope this is what you’ve been looking for
Poems in this collection
Introduction
Sprout, Part I:
Crumbs of love
The old you
When we’re apart
Missing person
My heart
You’re different now
All I wanted
Why is it always me?
Too much to ask
A sinking feeling
Stolen
Pearls of Fear
the void in my chest
Retrospective
Cravings
The everlasting cry
Realisation
Fade
Closing the Circle
Autumn Blues
Grow,Part II:
I deserve better
Empty words
Disappointment
Erased
Regrets
The taste of his own medicine
Too small to grow
The Nice Girl
The Forgiver
An Unsent Email
Against your lines
The music shop
As night turns to dawn
Fortune Cookie
Wonders of Summer
Trashcan roses
A new year’s poem
Lost time
Female Rage
Under the façade
Bloom, Part III:
Your story
Strong by myself
Opinion
The Queen of Spades
The last letter
How to be Woman 101
How to be Man 101
To the people I’ve cried leaving
The movie continues
The first real love
It is temporary
I feel too much
Someone
True or False
The fascination of him
What if it’s true?
Maple Syrup Voice
The life I live
Magic in the Mundane
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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Introduction
Since my high school graduation in 2022 and the release of a bouquet of poems, life has changed quite drastically. I’ve gone through a breakup, I’ve lost a few friends, and I’ve struggled quite a lot with loneliness. That’s why I’m so grateful to have had this project and to be able to let all my feelings and thoughts out by writing. It’s like therapy for me.
In some ways this is the follow up of a bouquet of poems, but in others it’s a whole different book. Growing Pains is more focused on life after high school, and the beginning of adulthood. It’s about healing from the darkness in life and beginning to see the light, growing through the pain, and to notice the small things that make everything worth it. The poems are still written mostly about my life, about the struggles I’ve faced and needed to let go of. It’s been difficult readjusting to this new stage in life, sometimes I feel like I’m barely holding on, and others I feel like I’m on top of the world. Either way the poems make it easier to grasp my emotions and come to terms with them.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my teenage years, somehow they seemed easier, like a driving lesson before the real exam. But mostly I don’t. They are a finished chapter of my life, just as a bouquet of poems is a finished book. Now I’m writing Growing Pains and living the new chapters of my life. I’m experiencing new things, meeting new people and getting to know who I really am when I’m not in school and surrounded by people I know.
I hope that you, the reader, who has picked up this book, will find some resemblance to your own life in these poems. That you will feel seen or less alone, knowing that I’ve too been through difficult times. I wish that you who are searching for inspiration will find it here, between the lines of my poetry. And lastly, I hope that you who are looking for another point of view will finally understand the other perspective. If you’ve picked this book up and thought that it might not be for you, think again. I’m sure there’s a poem here for you, or for someone else in your life. Please, enjoy!
Sara Arneberg
@abouquetofpoems
Sprout
Crumbs of love
The crumbs of love you were feeding me
I was too obsessed and couldn’t see
I kept on begging you for more,
with hands together, knees on floor
Constantly seeking your validation
the absence, felt like rough starvation
I was like your bird of pleasure,
in my eyes you were gold like treasure
I chased anything you’d throw
like old bread tossed to one black crow
Though I should have known that love
isn’t just crumbs fed to a dove
Love is affection, desire, devotion
