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The Weight Of Light
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some books tell you what to do. This one asks you to feel it first.
The Weight of Light is a collection of poems about the ordinary courage it takes to build a human life - crossing deserts of doubt, learning to move with the current instead of against it, and coming home changed.
Written in five parts - The Search, The Desert, The River, The Garden, and The Return - these poems trade instruction for image. A compass that only points where you decide to walk. A river that was never meant to fight the rock in its path. A seed that cannot see the tree it's becoming. Each poem stands alone, but together they trace the same journey every honest life eventually takes.
This is poetry for the reader who is tired of being told what to do and ready, instead, to feel their way toward what they already know.
Carrying the same honest, human philosophy found throughout Thomas Panetta's work - ownership, patience, quiet consistency - The Weight of Light speaks it here in a gentler register: not as instruction, but as image.
For anyone still deciding whether to begin.
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