Kirjahaku

This second collection of poetry by John Richard Hewitt continues on from his first collection, Above the Cloud. It is a book of that emphasises healing and renewal as well as the occasional dark memory. Sometimes landing on solid ground after liberation can bring moments of anguish as one begins to integrate back into a worldly experience after the lofty heights of otherworldly travel. But here, in the bricks and mortar of life, is where the true test of recovery takes place. Here is where one must breathe in healing and exhale gratitude; one must fight the good fight with all your might but this time our armour shall be of light, our shield shall be a full heart and our sword shall be an open hand.

This is a sensory library of micropoems supported by two poems, at the beginning and at the end: the bookends for this collection. Each micropoem is a book in itself and one hopes that the reader can pick and choose and lose the self into these microcosms of life.They are vignettes of love and loss; health and dis-ease; pain and joy yet all a part of a full spectrum of existence. The dark has been a most instructive teacher and I now no longer fear its lessons: "I'm no longer afraid of the dark;I wear it like a familiar overcoat, its pockets filled with moon-crystal and the finest jasmine." Book 41These short sensations are only missing one element: the reader. Thus it is my hope that you will fall between the lines and so add your own and very personal emotional response to these small offerings.

39 Love poems is a collection of love poetry that attempts to put into words the feelings and emotions of unconditional love that often can only be left unspoken. There are moments of grief and loss in this poetry collection but also an enduring knowing that love is greater than the word and that true love is untouchable.

This book is a single poem placed into sections that have no time line and thus time-travel backwards and forwards and ebb and flow and evoke the finding of true love and the agony of loss and the return to an undying friendship. It is a book of hope.

This book of poetry of travel and adventure starts in the snowy, cold landscape of Devon, UK and takes the reader on a journey of 4,000 miles to a world of colour and dust; heartache and epiphanies; death and life. Here Nature is raw and real and the land melts into the sky and as one looks out into this new landscape, the inner world looks back; then there is no going home for Home will always then travel with you. Complete with photographs taken in Nepal by the author and original artwork.