Love's Pathos by Graham Hardie

"Graham Hardie's poetry seems to well up from his own experience... these poems emanate a sense of struggle and eventual hard won redemption. They exude a spirituality (not to be confused with religion) and an underlying message of the power of real Love to redeem. Beyond that Hardie shows insight into the archetypal truths at the root of all literature. Add to this gems of delightful lyricism studded throughout... and you have a strong collection." Des Dillon "Graham Hardie is a poet and a romantic, a deeply poetic spirit romancing with the primeval elements of nature, struggling with the frailties of humanity but ever inspiring the reader towards renewed hope in love as a saving grace." Dr Linda Jackson

Sample poems from Love's Pathos: Hebridean Sea I was once forlorn By the love given to thee For I was not born of darkness But of the light of the Hebridean Sea, Where the sand is white And all that life has given Is forever precious and dear to me.

The Poet The poet is dead; his corpse hangs from the laurel tree and his last verse is etched into her bark: I am the sibling of the moon, The patron of the Devil And I listen to the wind Blowing bullets in the sand. She comes to collect his body and they make A pyre on which to burn his elegiac soul. Here he will be remembered as his words Carry the culpability of truth into the membranes Of the living and the dead.

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