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    Our Earthly Eyes
    Our Earthly Eyes
    Our Earthly Eyes
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    Our Earthly Eyes

    By Annie Hwang

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    "... [Annie Hwang's] poetry sings for every aching soul....talks about every loving heart....Speaks of the unflinching reality of life....Cries for the dreams that we all are craving for....." -Munia Khan
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 24, 2011
    ISBN9781426947605
    Our Earthly Eyes
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    Annie Hwang

    Our Earthly Eyes is the first book by Annie Hwang. She has been writing for a few years now, and she continues to create more poetry and excerpts. She was born in Korea but now lives in Texas with her family where she attends a suburban high school, still scribbling down verses in the margins of her homework assignments. She loves art history, blogging, playing the violin, and listening to all kinds of music from Classical to Indie to Pop.

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      Book preview

      Our Earthly Eyes - Annie Hwang

      Contents

      Heaven

      I Could Never Fathom Heaven

      A Little to Keep Inside

      God

      Retirement

      Perfect Mess

      The Suspect

      Pair of Feet

      Life and Death

      Solution

      Vineyard Sonata

      Genius

      Remember

      The Sail and the Moon

      Personal Stalker

      Simplifications

      Promoting Death

      Holy Spirit

      Church [Inspired by Emily Dickinson]

      Reality

      A Suicide Pleading Before a Jury in Heaven While in Hell

      The Blind Date

      The Poet’s Gift

      Fragment

      The Answers (haiku)

      God has No Color

      Then It Should Begin

      Then Don’t Ask

      Somewhere

      The Meaning

      A Stream of Consciousness

      Ode to the Star-catchers

      [R.I.P. Emily Dickinson]

      First I Will Be Autumn

      I Heard the Call

      Earth

      O God, My God

      Element of Change

      Shooting Star

      Drowsy

      Finished

      Priorities

      Do Not Wake Me

      Pain has a Route

      Brooding

      I Want to Be Free

      Earthly Eyes

      Humans

      The Painter and the Paintee

      A Battle in the Sky

      An Island

      The Rain

      Winter Breath

      The Womb of Seasons

      The Hardest Look

      On the Verge

      Summer Day

      Hummingbird

      Autumn. Again.

      Grandfather

      Alice

      I’m Sorry

      School Room

      The Heart

      Cross Pollination (haiku)

      Love Ache

      Ode to Time I

      Desires on a String

      I Met a Steinway

      Please

      Ode to Walls

      The Lone Art

      Word

      The Worst

      A Proposal

      Poetry Differs

      Water and Poetry

      Self-Assault

      Backyard

      To Disappear

      What is Night?

      Poetry Used to Be

      Explaining

      My Overture

      Becoming a woman...

      To Fellow Poets

      A Broken Compass

      The Days When Poetry Drags

      January 20, 2009.

      The Decision

      Pain is Beautiful Like

      Apologizing

      Spring’s Coming

      Dying for the Mystery

      Missing Child

      Perhaps the Poet Writes

      Gray (senryu)

      Curtains

      Mountains

      War Days

      Poet’s Block

      The Beach Sunset

      I Knew Beauty

      Thrice

      Do you Know of Love

      All We Want to Do

      Buzzing Bee

      Tree Barks

      Liberty to Cry

      1:00 A.M.

      When it Kills You Slowly

      Afraid of the Sea

      On War

      That Feeling

      Us

      I Was Made

      You Are

      Spoiled

      A Man to a Woman

      In Love

      When Men Don’t Love

      How Human You Are

      The Rumors of Love

      I Loved Love

      Old Friend

      I Am Afraid to Breathe

      Brilliant Eye

      Winter is a Promise

      When Saying ‘No’ to Love

      Distant Relationship

      Overdue

      Tall Love

      To a Friend

      Only Fame

      The Prediction

      Missing in Action (M.I.A.)

      Frail Women

      Can I Simply Say?

      For So Long

      for Jackie Johnson

      Lie

      Subway

      Absence

      Even the Roses

      We Are Close

      She Caught Stars

      My Ache, My Irony

      Secret

      Your Nomadic Heart

      Suicide

      In a Certain Angle of Light

      Love’s Dialogue

      Last Night

      Let You Go

      I Held the Sun

      Sparkling Cider

      Hypothetically

      Silly Love Talk

      I Loved You

      StayClose

      Friend (senryu)

      A Pail

      Tulips (haiku)

      End of the Tunnel

      Smile for Me

      But I Do

      I Cannot Love You

      Kind You Are

      To My Journal

      This Obsession

      Peer Inside

      Overdue

      Breakfast and Reconciliation

      Carousel

      for Mary Hannah McWilliams

      This is Romance

      Aging Together

      Your Eyes Tell Me Things

      Singing My Song

      I am

      Down the road and up

      the hill

      I wait for you still

      Wires ‘round my fingers

      Potentially lovely

      Perpetually human

      Suspended and open

      Open

      — Regina Spektor

      Heaven

      I Could Never Fathom Heaven

      I could never fathom heaven,

      while myself still treaded earth.

      But I know my epoch of disbelief,

      will, like my living, be reversed.

      Is it faith that worry grows here?

      that my doubts shall amount to no worth?

      While my knowledge is still fed,

      there shall be no mirth?

      God expected of me, his child,

      unseeing whole-hearted belief,

      which I did, which I could,

      besides the waver and it being brief.

      But I have hope! And I know the truth,

      that my incredulity,

      will once it’s being in heaven disappear,

      and break my penalty.

      A Little to Keep Inside

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