Poetry from The Lady of the Pier
()
About this ebook
Joanna boards a flight from JFK to visit the Greek island of Sifnos again after twenty years. All this time, despite the distance and her life's circumstances, she's been holding on to precious memories from an old summer love. Now, she's determined to meet again the man she once left behind, hoping for a chance to prove she never forgot their old promise...
The book contains a Greek short story of second chance romance and ten love poems from the Lady of the Pier trilogy. Readers who are not familiar with the series may equally enjoy them.
Related to Poetry from The Lady of the Pier
Related ebooks
A Journey Through Mynds Eye Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Find Hidden Answers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJailHouse Poet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Night Version and Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll for the Sake of Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTorchlight: A Collection of Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTaintlessness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPerfidia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBaring My Heart: Courageously Brave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlowstick Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWords of Wonders: African Poetry, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems and Lyrics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost in Wonderland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEllipsis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As Boorish As Myself Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Shadows Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadows, Memories, and Dreams: A Collection of Ethereal Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsColourful Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRiddles Rippling: Reasons Squinting Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murmur in My Soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mermaid's Garden: Shadows of The Heart, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of Being Mine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoetry by James Larkin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems from a Prison Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Evince the Blue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of a Star: Poetry for the Soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove Tolls The Bell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings....So, I was thinking.: Select poetry by Cassandra Pownell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTiny Tots Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rope: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Poetry from The Lady of the Pier
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Poetry from The Lady of the Pier - Effrosyni Moschoudi
A FEW WORDS FROM THE AUTHOR
When Sofia falls in love on the Greek island of Corfu, she finds herself worrying about two things: village gossip, and the spirit of a lamenting woman that begins to haunt her dreams. Compelled by the spirit and her love for a boy, Sofia moves far away from home, entering a foreign world where the spirit awaits, haunting a derelict pier from a bygone era. The spirit has remained bound to this place, the West Pier of Brighton, for a great number of years. The locals have a name for her: ‘The Lady of the Pier.’
Enchanted, Sofia writes a series of poems . . . you will find ten of them in this book. I hope they will inspire you in some way, the way they inspired my heroine Sofia to follow her heart, no matter the adversity.
There are a number of themes in the Lady of the Pier trilogy, like the value of friendship, the importance of family, but, most of all, the irresistible power of heart over mind, and the sacred right that every person on this earth has for happiness and love.
Sofia suffers for love, sometimes giving in to reason, only to be overwhelmed by her strong emotions, following her heart once again. The bonus short story An Old Promise
that you will find at the end of this book, serves as yet another reminder that if you ignore your heart’s desires for the sake of reason, you are in danger of losing your way.
I hope you will enjoy the short story as well as the poetry. I’m also including in this volume an exclusive excerpt from The Ebb (book 1 in the trilogy) that you won’t find as a free preview anywhere else.
ADVICE FROM THE MOON
Mother of tides
Your magic word the sea abides
Healer of pain
Look at my heart, the wretched, the slain.
Of gathering clouds you slide on the silk
Of worrying souls the bread and the milk
You are; as you were and always will be
I’m longing for truth, your face to see
I’m looking for answers, my dreams to come true
Will they from the clouds one day come through?
And then as She slid, majestically pale
Behind grey veils, so silky, so frail
She shone on my face and filled me with bliss
Then blew these words like a motherly kiss:
When morning should come
Then whispered The Moon
The Sun will awake and blind me too soon
He puts me to sleep with powerful rays
And blind I stumble throughout His days.
At night, I’m The Queen, The Mother, The Guide
But sometimes behind the clouds I should hide.
And if your keen eye should try to find me
Don’t blame the clouds that gather to hide me.
Hold on to your dreams and hang on still proud
I hear your pleas - you stare at the cloud.
I haven’t gone out; I’m still all around!
I hold all your dreams behind the cloud.
And as I emerge from silver grey lines
As clouds will then yield, as moonlight then shines
One day your dreams at last will be there
They’re already here my child,
As long as at clouds you solemnly stare.
LOVING YOU FOREVER
It took a million days
To seize another chance
And yet the day she found him
She