Stef Botha-Schuurman

Frozen Poetry; a collection of poems dealing with everyday emotions and thoughts. Each poem has a specific meaning, a reason for being written. Every reader will experience a different reason as to why the poem was written, a different emotion can be connected to each poem. By adding some words together to form a poem, one tends to open your soul up in a different way with each letter typed. Emotions flow through these words in every single poem, giving the reader a true and emotional experience, not only in the life of the author, but in their very own lives...

There are a lot of people going through scenarios like this and ones that are mentioned in the short stories. Not every story has a happy ending and it is those stories that need to be told, told for the ones that no longer have a voice. I am not trying to change people or their perceptions; I am only trying to tell them through this story that words can do a lot of harm. Your own fears and insecurities and lack of knowledge on certain topics can cause a lot of pain to others. It has become easier to rather condemn each other than trying to understand each other. We would rather see how we can cause harm, pain and suffering towards each other, rather than seeing what good we can do. The world has become a cruel and unsafe place due to the doings of us as humans; we have become the evil ones. We all have it in is to make a change, we just need to try and try harder...