"While our society tends to idealize the lust-love relationship, it's the true love of a long-term committed relationship that is the ultimate dream for most of us,"writes June Cotner who has assembled this wonderful collection of poems on the different shades of love in a meaningful relationship. Those familiar with her 20 other books know that she has a fine eye for moving poems and quotations.
This anthology is divided into the following sections:
The Search
The Attraction
Longing
Courtship
Merging
Commitment
Early Years
Daily Life
Struggles
Mature Life
Later Years
In Sickness
Partings
Reflections
Cotner has given us a chance to re-experience the varied emotions that come in the stages of love relationship. The poets cover all the bases and open our hearts to the ties that connect us with other lovers. Reading these poems also gives us an opportunity to harvest the many magical moments we have spent together as couples. What a gift! See the excerpt for a sampler of the poems.
