How Deep The Pain Goes Quiet After

From Germany to California with stops in Paris Turkey and Greecethese poems are a collection of the yearnings within us all -- questions askedanswers given and much that never will.<p>Still: that love and loss are the greatest gifts the deepest sorrows one canever know. And who can say what God is -- if finding Him we are bothshattered and fulfilled?<p>May it never be that there is no final after... that there may always besomething wonderful rising from the deep within.<p>When one loves too intensely thevulnerability is ever there for disaster.We are so fragile so weak; yet strongerthan imagined when tested. One hopesthat day will never come-yet come itwill. And always we are unprepared.But life was not meant to be livedon eggshells. Strength is most oftengained from failure.<p>These poems run the range of simpleobservation to the shattered real ofpersonal confession... tracing theevolution not only of history andall it implies but to the progressand confrontations we must everacknowledge within ourselves andregarding others. As an old adageimplies: win or lose the game must beplayed and hopefully we may dancewell. Though life is far from a game.Yet the prizes are many and the lossesvaried. As much as one can we mustever seek to value the ride.