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The Past Burns Behind Me
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 25 2025
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Past Burns Behind Me, Samuel Ludke blazes a trail through memory, loss, and transformation. This searing collection of poetry is both a confession and a reckoning-a lyrical journal from the edge of ruin to the raw possibility of rebirth. With every line, Ludke strikes a match to the ghosts of yesterday, watching them flare, flicker, and fade in smoke.
These poems are scarred with honesty, soaked in longing, and lit with defiance. Love lost, innocence shattered, and time's relentless march are all laid bare in verses that ache and burn. Yet from the ashes, something defiant rises-hope, in its most fragile and fierce form.
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