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    Fear After
    Fear After
    Fear After
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    Fear After

    By Bea Litherland

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    Fear After is the title poem in a deeply personal, engrossing, and poignant collection presenting a journey through the authors emotional being. The work is divided into four sections- reminiscence and nostalgia, nostalgia and despair, despair to hope and hope to calm. The poems illustrate the authors reflective mind richly coloured by deep, personal emotions, which as everything else in the world, are subject to the laws of change. Nostalgia easily descends into despair, despair with the help of the lightening quality of hope loosens its grip and allows the mind to resurface into serene calm, and the path of calm makes fear, once strong and powerful, able to be faced in a lighter, more humorous manner. The collection culminates, after all, to the state of fear after.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 19, 2010
    ISBN9781440170782
    Fear After
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    Bea Litherland

    Bea Litherland graduated with a degree in Anthropology; lived in London, working as a freelance interpreter. She then lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and explored the Far East, continuing to work on her writing. She now lives with her husband, Chris, and son, Josh, in the United Arab Emirates.

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      Fear After - Bea Litherland

      Copyright © 2009 Bea Litherland

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-7079-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4401-7077-5 (dj)

      ISBN: 978-1-4401-7078-2 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009935495

      iUniverse rev. date: 12/15/2009

      Contents

      PART ONE: Reminiscence and Nostalgia

      Anniversary

      May

      Inheritance

      In Golders Green with Sade

      The photograph of my son, the policeman

      Reminiscence about love

      A New Year resolution confronted withAll Saint’s Day

      If it hadn’t been for the sound of bats frogs, and cicadas, it would be …

      Today

      For you

      Tibetan dream

      Between arrival and departure

      The moment

      PART TWO: From Nostalgia to Despair

      No need for a title

      Time

      The mirror’s reflection

      Incompetence

      Badly read

      There is only one page left

      Only for a while

      Apology

      Much too much about nothing

      Basic instinct

      Lost today

      Going nowhere on the way to somewhere

      Reflection

      I am because

      To my sister

      Streetwise

      Being upstairs

      If I were prettier or younger

      It could be and it can be

      Relax

      Separated

      Jet lag

      Blown away

      PART THREE: From Despair to Hope

      As promised

      Creation

      Satan’s Ball

      Impression

      It was a word at the beginning

      Meaning diversion

      Carpe Diem

      Jealousy

      Letter

      Rerooted

      Where do we come back from?

      The power of fear

      We

      On being armed

      Striving for a poem

      Fear after

      PART FOUR: From Hope to Calm

      In the rhythm of the waltz

      On the beach

      Tranquility

      The Old Devil Sea

      Landing in Tibet

      The colour of China

      Stranger

      Everlasting summer

      A drop of adjustment

      Back to

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