The Art of Words: Poetry Collection
By Leah Ward
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About this ebook
Poet Leah Ward finds inspiration in nature and the world around her. That inspiration is translated into words via this contemporary collection of eclectic poetry. The Art of Words offers a view of the world through one womans eyes, with rhythmic verse that touches every corner of the human condition.
Her poetry explores witty concepts, the natural beauty of the world, and a wide range of emotions, often containing puns, plays on words, and personification. She considers love, heartache, loneliness, happiness, betrayal, and judgment.
Ward speaks of love only found in dreams and of nature and how it affects usand how we affect nature. She brings the full spectrum to the forefront in her debut poetry collection and encourages us to examine the world we live in through a poets perspective.
Dreams and the Heart
Dreams and the Heart,
Go hand in hand.
One leads to the other,
And back again.
The heart feels,
What a dream captivates
True happiness,
Until one awakes.
The heart holds treasures,
That dreams try to explore.
Staying asleep,
Long as possible craving for more.
More time is what the heart,
Begs to the dream.
More time is all
That the heart really needs.
Leah Ward
was born in 1993 and grew up in the small town of Selma, North Carolina. She started writing poetry as a teen and soon plans to expand to writing children’s books. In her free time, she enjoys longboarding and absorbing nature’s beauty and inspiration.
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The Art of Words - Leah Ward
Love Is Frightening
Mass confusion starts to aspire
Chaos breaks out
And your heart begs for its desire.
The desire is you
And everything surrounding.
The desire is love
A love so astounding,
That now your heart
Is pulling ahead
In the race to convince you
To ignore what your brain has said.
Your heart screams
Out loud: be with who you want
Love who you please
Cherish as much as you can
Be humble, gentle, and try to understand
That life’s too short
To waste,
On being
Afraid.
Dreams and the Heart
Dreams and the Heart,
Go hand in hand.
One leads to the other,
And back again.
The heart feels,
What a dream captivates
True happiness,
Until one awakes.
The heart holds treasures,
That dreams try to explore.
Staying asleep,
Long as possible craving for more.
More time is what the heart,
Begs to the dream.
More time is all
That the heart really needs.
One day though,
The heart made a friend.
No, not Dreams,
But someone more like him.
Someone special,
Named Heart too.
Oh the joys and love,
That flowed through.
The two of them together,
Put dreams to shame.
With true love,
Being the one to blame.
Now things are different,
Very different than before.
The heart doesn’t need,
The dreams anymore.
Instead it begs,
To stay awake.
For as long as possible,
As to never separate.
Because now the only thing,
That gets in the way,
Is what the heart,
Needed so bad in the first place.
Two halves
Bonded by the seams,
Two hearts in love
Hand in hand, as if in a dream.
I Don’t Want to Pack
I don’t want to pack
I just want to run,
Right now, this very second
Leave everything undone.
I don’t want to think
I don’t want to plan.
Nothing with us,
Just hand in hand.
Hit the road in a heartbeat
With no destination,
How fast can we run,
With no hesitation.
We can travel as far
As your imagination can
From the snow top mountains
To the desert sand.
Doesn’t matter where we go
Cause no one will know,
We’ll draw our names in a heart
And leave it as our note.
Anyone else in love
Will surely comprehend
What it feels like
To be on this end.
So have no worries, and have no cares.
The world awaits us, don’t be scared.
Adventure can be the color,
Of our love story.
Then maybe others in love
Will learn that sometimes,
You need to draw outside the lines.
The Candle of Life
Complicated is the one word
Which sums up life.
When I’ve always hoped
For simplicity and light.
Love is like a candle
Lit by the heart.
It burns easy for a while
Then the complications start.
Trials are like the wind
Blowing at your flame.
It’s easy to go out
And hard to begin again.
A true lover and companion
Is quite like the hand.
They surround your heart
So your flame will withstand.
They protect you
As best as they can.
Even if it means
Burning their own hand.
Life is like the