Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

By Michele Venne

The best fodder for the muse are life's events and circumstances.

We all have had situations that molded us, forced us to grow, and made us strong even if we would have chosen an easier path.

For the author, writing has become a way of reflecting on life, a chance to process what happened, and an avenue for healing.

Includes:

1) 75 poems written by the author

2) Suggestions for writing poetry even if you've never tried before

3) How to use poetry for healing

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michele Venne
• Release date: Jan 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781945593031

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Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

Michele Venne´

My Joy Enterprises

Contents

Also by Michele Venne´

Acknowledgments

Dear Reader

Table of Contents

Brown

Eclipse

Goddess

Elements

Quiet

Time

Space

Storm

Disappear

Flirtation

My Poem for You

Soothe

Feelings

The First

Waiting

What Is

Inside Conflict

Hopes

What It Takes

Now

Our Days

Consequences

Unfulfilled

Moments

Appearing

Concealed

Desert Return

Forget

Cave

Inner Child

Loss

Dark and Light

Other Cheek

Self-Help

End of Day

Rarely Filled

Took

Secrets

Where to Go From Here

Art Life

Music

Create

Writer to Reader

Book Completed

Words on Sale

Half-Way

Last Night

Shifts

Birthday

Great Love Comes from Great Risk

Formal Life, Casual Death

The Day

Begin

Searching

Who Am I?

Dream I Had

Everything Is Free

Absence from Home

Commercialism

Renew

Two

Loneliness

Release

Purpose

Sweet

Joy

Us

How to Be

Life

Encouragement

I

Shadow

Balance Sheet

And So

Love

Personal Ad

I Believe in Love

Have You Been Looking for Me?

Letting In

Free Love

I’ll Walk From There

The Fair

Questions to Ponder

Creating Your Own Poetry

Inspiration

Ways to Play

Using Poetry for Healing

About the Author

Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

Copyright © 2016 by Michele Venné

All rights reserved

Cover art created by Lily Skye at www.lillyskye.com

Published by My Joy Enterprises

PO Box 73372

Phoenix, AZ 85050

www.michelevenne.com

ISBN 978-1-945593-03-1

This is a work of poetry. And and all incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Suggestions to write poetry are from the author. If using poetry for healing is more than the reader can handle, please seek a mental health professional.

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, such as electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission from the author.

Also by Michele Venne´

Of Gifts and the Goddess

Of Dolphins and Desires

Of Stars and Secrets, Stars Series Book One

Of Prophecies and Promises, Stars Series Book Two

Everything to Gain, An Asset, Inc. Novel

Survivors in the After, Book One in the After Series

Of Daggers and Dreamers, A Novel of Light and Dark

Of Art and Air, Book One in the Tanner Trilogy

Of Hoof Prints and Heartbeats, Book Two in the Tanner Trilogy

Of Objects and Obsessions, Book Three in the Tanner Trilogy

Poetry Collections

Yogis All: A Journey of Transformation, Volume 1, Poems About the Practice

Lingering Hand of Creation

Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

The Companion Journal for Cracked Heart: Poetic Thoughts on a Life

Short Story

Flashes of Light on a Dark and Stormy Night: A Flash Fiction Anthology

The Resistance

Reality?

A Grant of Three

Altered Views

The Marshal and the Nun

The Best Gift

Operation: Sand Dune

Crimson Heels

Nonfiction

Creative Play: A Guide for the Artistic Path

The Companion Workbook for Creative Play: A Guide for the Artistic Path

Yogis All: A Journey of Transformation, Volume 2, Tools of the Practice

Novella Series

Nyla’s Curse, Roanoak Book 1

Of Shapeshifters and Storms, Roanoak Book 2

Of Warriors and Wisdom, Roanoak Book 3

Acknowledgments

Thank you, Pete, for offering me a refuge to heal and your continued friendship.

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A heartfelt thank you goes to my beta readers, Pat and Rita, for your honest assessment of my words.

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Lily, thank you for your artistic representation, in vivid color, of my poetic thoughts on the cover of this collection.

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Melanie, I have much gratitude for your help in originally formatting this book and always being a positive, supportive friend.

Dear Reader,

In my novels, there seems to be particular details that I need to research in order to get the setting or the details as accurate as possible. With this collection of poetry, the only research required was that oft-traveled road inward through the chaotic, treacherous landscape of my ego to the peaceful stillness of my True self. More times than not, I didn’t arrive where I wished to be, and so I would find myself peering through the fog and opaque glass windows with straining senses that I might find what, at times when my Small self was running the show, I desperately needed.

Here you’ll