A Day and Its Night

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Can a poem be just this?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In his debut poetry collection award-winning actor George Abud invites readers into a world where the smallest moments carry infinite weight. Through poetry and aphorism he explores longing self-discovery and the quiet strength found in not rushing reminding us of our shared search for significance connection and a deeper understanding of ourselves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>From the stillness of a night refusing to end to noticing a new hue in an already luminous sky to missing a lover you have yet to meet each page transforms the seemingly insignificant into something radiant. Here the ordinary becomes extraordinary; each nothing becomes a luminous something.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Guiding readers through an inner landscape where soulful understanding resides </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A Day and Its Night</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> advises the reader that to find clarity in yourself is to find clarity for the world.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Within these verses love and restraint ache and relief terror and truth reaching and freedom coexist-woven into a vivid tapestry that distills the arc of a single day into its most glittering depths and boundless hopes.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A Day and Its Night</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is for readers who long to slow down who seek gentle reflection and vulnerable truths and who recognize humanity's unending capacity for beauty. Whether contemplating the unmasking of life on a lover's sleeping face the sigh of an oud as it sings one perfect note or the ecstasy of a pink sky these poems are a reminder to see the world anew.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For lovers of poetry this book will be your reminder; this poet your voice.</span></p>