A Collection of Poems and Prose

By Dora Elia

This collection evolved from days of pain and of remembering happiness. To deal with my life at the time, writing helped me to carry on day by day. Writing my thoughts down on paper I called my friend. The pen and words flowed on the pages along with some tears here and there. A profound account of one woman's awakening from years of pain and suffering. The work opens doors and pushes aside curtains to allow the author to express deep meaning to events that occurred. It is written to intend enjoyment and therapeutic soul searching. Perhaps, when an event comes about, we do not understand the reason, but this work explores potential escapes. The writer mingles reality, pain, together with mystical and spiritual experiences that help to find some kind of meaning to our lives. These convey what some people experience at some point in their life. The book has a variety of poems and prose which are wonderful, uplifting, and beautiful. A must read because the message is that we are the masters of our lives and we can control the final outcome.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645150619

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A Collection of Poems and Prose

Dora Elia

Copyright © 2019 by Dora Elia

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Table of Contents

The Abyss

Afternoons

Another Time

Another World

Are You Fit

Astatine

Authority Figure

The Beach

Being Young

The Big Prize

The Blue Butterfly(Who Wears the Color of the Sky)

The Bond between a Deer Buck and a Dog

Alaska in Heaven

Borrower

Breakfast in the 80’s

Calculation

A Child’s Tale

Color to Dust

Conceived to Destroy

Corrupted Influence

Cry

A Crystal Shard

The Cure Is Time

Day after Day

Death, Comfort, and Life

Depressed

Does Anyone Know

Empty

The Enchanting Forest

The End

Every Dawn I Die

Eyeball

Father! Holy Father

Fighting

The Flowers for Me

A Fragment of Time

A Friend Good-bye

Gerry and Missy, the Pheasant

Gliding

Got to Move On

The Hand

What Changed?

Help Me, Lord

Help My Growth

Him

House of Glass

How?

Lady

Let Me Go

Lily, Lily, Lily of the Valley

Little Girl

The Lonely Wolf

Lost

Lost and Found

Love

I Love Him So

I Love You

I’m Loved

Me

Me and My Shadow

Memory

Miniature

Mirage

Missing

Mother of the World

The New Girl on the Block

The Night Before

Night Thief

Moon Stigma

Mother

Dreams

My Secret Love

Praise to the Sisters

Oh, Why Can’t I

Abused

Plea

Problems

Promises

Puppet

The Quiet

The Sea

Bones

Significance

Slipping

Some Other Life

The Soul

Space Love

I Speak with Tears

The Story of Christmas

Surrender

A Survivor’s Recollection of the Mass Shooting

Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate)

The Thing

Time

Great Thinkers and Believers

Time Has Stopped

Torn in Two

To Trust Again

The Touch of Death

Track

Trapped

Despair

Your Name

I Want

Watery Eyes

We Are (Within)

When I Dream before I Wake

What I Felt and What I Am Feeling

What Purpose?

Who Knows

Winter

Woman

Women of Freedom

Preface

My life has been an interesting ride of lows and highs. The rollercoaster was slow, sometimes fast. My work reflects on those times when despair hit bottom, but you will see that I slowly picked up the pieces and went on.

The writing helped me to clarify and express my thoughts through the help of people and animals. This work taught me that life is not always grim, wonderful and events do occur, and to take every day with a grain of salt. Only through experience can we learn and appreciate life as we should.

Therefore, lessons are learned every day and we should never stop wanting to know. We crave knowledge, and I have come to listen and observe more around me. Surrounded by wildlife, I see that humans and nature are intertwined; one needs the other. This I have come to embrace as I journeyed into my writing throughout the years and now.

Everyone wants to be loved; it’s a fact from the beginning of the time. The search on this earth guides us to what we want and need; some found it while others are still looking.

I would like to think that my description of life spans across the world; although landscapes vary and cultures are different. Make no mistake that, at the root, every human being has similar thoughts. Everyone has the quest to search for the truth on this earth.

I was angry and the burden was heavy, unleashed I did all into words. The weight felt lighter, and so did my spirit and soul.

In the silence of my mind, ideas and meaning poured out onto paper to hold the moment in place lest I forget. I found power and strength; hence, I began to express my thoughts on paper as the scrambled letters found their place, and made words,