REFLECTIVE VISIONS OF LOVE - Love is unspeakable joy that floats like a gentle breeze upon a rushing wave on the sea... Life leads us down many paths whether or not of our own choosing; only time will tell. But like laughter blowing in the wind often the soothing melodies of our hearts bring us comfort and consolation. Poetry has a way of bringing us more in touch with deeper aspects of ourselves we would otherwise simply ignore. Every poem in some way is like a spectrum of light flowing from within our heart and soul or mind and spirit; and suggests to us with clarity insight or wonderment that life is meant to be lived happily; with a sense of excitement peace loving-kindness and love. Love is the greatest tool that brings about this state of awareness and joy. However often whatever dreams we have simply fall by the wayside because of the lack self-knowledge aspiration as well as self-esteem or self-empowerment. Poetry offers us a means to view reflections of how our passions reveal to us what happens within our innermost being at any given moment no matter where we are or what our state of mind may be. Poetry has a way of drawing us closer to ourselves and thus to one another. A role of a poet is to help us gravitate in the direction of self inspiration and introspection which leads us to greater heights in consciousness and deeper understandings of life. When we develop and choose to live from such perspective our passions awaken us to greater possibilities as we journey down our individual paths with a sense of globalization sharing caring compassionate thinking and harmony. This present work Love and Paper Rumors is a compendium of poems accentuated with the theme of love as an instrument blowing like a trumpet resonating in the mind and soul of the readers and causing their heart to excite. Paper Rumors alludes to all those things - perceptions misconceptions shadow elements etc. we carry around or just han