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When The Periwinkles Wilt: Stories and poems about broken hearts and broken souls
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ISBN13: 9798843025991
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
========= Coloured Pages and gloss cover! =========== When the Periwinkles Wilt is a beautiful and insightful exploration of emotion and love. It deals with complicated feelings and not always knowing exactly what to do or how to feel.
...a constant echo of internal melodrama and domestic misery. The friction between serenity and chaos, love and longing- living under the burden of humanity's collective moral ambiguity. I think most of you will agree when I say Life is a rollercoaster ride. And I really like this analogy. In life, there are ups and downs. It's calm when the rollercoaster goes up but when it goes down again, it scares the hell out of you. Then next time when you go uphill, the thoughts of the inevitable downfall haunt you. Life is pretty much the same.
...a constant echo of internal melodrama and domestic misery. The friction between serenity and chaos, love and longing- living under the burden of humanity's collective moral ambiguity. I think most of you will agree when I say Life is a rollercoaster ride. And I really like this analogy. In life, there are ups and downs. It's calm when the rollercoaster goes up but when it goes down again, it scares the hell out of you. Then next time when you go uphill, the thoughts of the inevitable downfall haunt you. Life is pretty much the same.
Eventually, you start to hate the high and prefer to stay in the low, because it hurts more to fall from higher ground.
This book is about the low, not the high. It contains poems and short stories related to various themes like depression, peer and parental pressure, rejection, self-hate etc., though at first glance they might all seem like heartbreak poems (not that there's a dearth of them here... ). Love, friendship and relationships are the main foci of this book. The writings are divided into six separate categories just to organise them and make them easier for you to navigate. I've always wanted to compile something of this sort since the time I published my first poetry anthology 'These were not for you' under a pseudonym. Why did I use a pen name back then? And why am I publishing these in my name? Well, I don't have a definite answer to that. Maybe because I've since come to accept these thoughts and emotions. I've learned not to be ashamed of the 'low'. There's certain calmness in these melancholic themes and a lesson of stoicism. Bad days will come, there's no avoiding them. But what matters is how you deal with them and even more important, what you learn from the experience.
Not all relationships work out, not all friends stay, not all ventures lead you to success, but that's obvious, isn't it? Happiness is fleeting, and once it's gone, all you'll be left with is that same feeling of destitution. But we must learn to accept it. Running away will not solve the problem. I've had friends who took to addictive means to escape this reality, I've seen people talk of death as if it were a saviour; I've also known some of the most optimistic and light-hearted personalities in my short lifespan on this planet. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend enough days locked up in my room, crying my eyes out or seeking to 'escape'. Though my forms of escapism were much milder: books, poetry, the internet, music...
The aim of this book is not to give you false hope. I won't say crap like, everything will be okay, give it some time or it's okay not to be okay. Everything might not be okay and I know it sucks not to be okay. What I want you to do, my reader is to accept. Accept the bad, 'cause it is inevitable. Just learn to live through it, smile through it. You've come this far, my friend, you can do it. I believe in you and I want you to believe in yourself. And maybe these few poems and stories will give you some solace when the times are bad.
Hope you will enjoy my amateurish works, and I wish you all the very best in life.
- Ogni,
3rd July 2022, Dimapur
This book is about the low, not the high. It contains poems and short stories related to various themes like depression, peer and parental pressure, rejection, self-hate etc., though at first glance they might all seem like heartbreak poems (not that there's a dearth of them here... ). Love, friendship and relationships are the main foci of this book. The writings are divided into six separate categories just to organise them and make them easier for you to navigate. I've always wanted to compile something of this sort since the time I published my first poetry anthology 'These were not for you' under a pseudonym. Why did I use a pen name back then? And why am I publishing these in my name? Well, I don't have a definite answer to that. Maybe because I've since come to accept these thoughts and emotions. I've learned not to be ashamed of the 'low'. There's certain calmness in these melancholic themes and a lesson of stoicism. Bad days will come, there's no avoiding them. But what matters is how you deal with them and even more important, what you learn from the experience.
Not all relationships work out, not all friends stay, not all ventures lead you to success, but that's obvious, isn't it? Happiness is fleeting, and once it's gone, all you'll be left with is that same feeling of destitution. But we must learn to accept it. Running away will not solve the problem. I've had friends who took to addictive means to escape this reality, I've seen people talk of death as if it were a saviour; I've also known some of the most optimistic and light-hearted personalities in my short lifespan on this planet. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend enough days locked up in my room, crying my eyes out or seeking to 'escape'. Though my forms of escapism were much milder: books, poetry, the internet, music...
The aim of this book is not to give you false hope. I won't say crap like, everything will be okay, give it some time or it's okay not to be okay. Everything might not be okay and I know it sucks not to be okay. What I want you to do, my reader is to accept. Accept the bad, 'cause it is inevitable. Just learn to live through it, smile through it. You've come this far, my friend, you can do it. I believe in you and I want you to believe in yourself. And maybe these few poems and stories will give you some solace when the times are bad.
Hope you will enjoy my amateurish works, and I wish you all the very best in life.
- Ogni,
3rd July 2022, Dimapur
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