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    New Love Poems
    New Love Poems
    New Love Poems
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    New Love Poems

    By Terry Benczik

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    What is love? How do we get and keep that almost indescribably happy feeling?

    The collection, New Love Poems, by award-winning poet Terry Benczik moves with tenderness, sensitivity, and humor through love's many moods. The book reflects the wild adventure and charming idyll that romantic feelings provide.


    It describes a woman's journey of love through a jungle of emotions, from attraction and excitement through hurt, despair, longing, and hope. There are also portraits of feelings of love that soar and bring the reader to an elevated territory. The thoughts and feelings here are images and stories we might all recognize and cherish. Some poems spark sentiment, wistfulness, desire, and laughter. Other poems reflect love, not just for a romantic partner, but for humanity and the divine beloved; conveying a realization that the love we carry in our hearts is the most precious gift we can give to ourselves and to others.


    "Reading poetry awakens our own inner artisan energies and transforms us. New Love Poems is a treasure of blessing-filled healing poems for both heart and soul. Terry Benczik is truly Rumis daughter with her profound, authentic heart poetry."
    -Rev. Jayne Howard Feldman, author of Commune with the Angels, Driving Under the Influence of Angels, and Angels by My Side

    "Well, a rare combination of talents is our Terry Benczik! She is fully conscious of the joys of human lifethat 'pleasing, anxious being,' as Thomas Gray so memorably described it; and simultaneously she is movingly mindful of Virgil's 'tears of things'; (lacrimae rerum). Yet she somehow manages to suffuse a tender charm over both these aspects of our mortal experiences, both the weeping and the laughter. I'm sure it is her aesthetic sensitivity which I find so appealing -that gentle power, that verbal elegance, that poignant memorability, which characterizes her poetic achievement."
    -Colin Dexter, creator, Inspector Morse

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateAug 13, 2013
    ISBN9781452575230
    New Love Poems
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    Terry Benczik

    Author Terry Benczik has enjoyed a lifelong love of poetry and writing. At 24, she was hired as a full-time staff news writer for CBS News, writing for “Nightwatch,” and later for “The CBS Morning News.” After CBS, a desire to make a difference brought her into government service, working in offices at the World Trade Center (WTC). She was part of a team that won the New York PRSA’s Big Apple Award for their work with international media following the WTC bombing in 1993. She brought reporters on tours of the explosion site and connected them with those who were protecting and rebuilding the damaged areas. Ms. Benczik’s essay on her experience the morning of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks was selected by the Library of Congress for the “American Memory” exhibit. Teaching material based on her story was developed by the Library of Congress for classroom use. Ms. Benczik’s essay on the George Washington Bridge is in the book “Perpetual Motion,” and her essay on the Holland Tunnel is in “Today’s Public Relations,” by Heath and Coombs. Terry is acknowledged in seven other books including “American Television Drama,” by Dr. William Hawes; and in “The Remorseful Day,” by Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter. In 2007, she won a silver medal in Poetry.com’s International Poetry Contest. An avid beachcomber, classic film buff, and appreciator of the arts, Ms. Benczik lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a few prized seashells and many, many books.

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      New Love Poems - Terry Benczik

      Copyright © 2013 Terry Benczik.

      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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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-7521-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-7522-3 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-7523-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013909671

      Balboa Press rev. date: 8/12/2013

      Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1   Attraction

      •   On Seeing Stewart Granger in a Deli on 57th Street

      •   What I Really Wanted to Say Instead of Hello

      •   Your Beautiful Face

      •   Dreams of Discovery

      Chapter 2   Excitement

      •   Ruminations on Love

      •   Oceanography

      •   A Dangerous Poem

      •   For You, My Love

      •   Complicated

      •   The Letter

      •   A Fleeting Feeling

      •   Lost

      Chapter 3   Frustration

      •   Office Routine

      •   Sea Stories

      •   The River

      •   A Low, Mean Wind

      •   It’s Time To Get Real

      •   Any Word?

      Chapter 4   Hurt & Despair

      •   Anthem for William

      •   Encounter with the Stellar

      •   Wild, Wild Woes

      •   A Twenty-Year-Old Girl Rips-Up Your Valentine

      •   Invocation to Freyja

      •   Blind Desire

      •   Past Tense

      •   Regret

      •   A Tale of The Heart

      •   Heeling

      Chapter 5   Thoughts

      •   With Love to Grace Darling

      •   August Night

      •   Assessment

      •   Planet Speak

      •   Heart in Flight

      •   The Starfish King

      Chapter 6   Self

      •   The Influence of Old Ladies

      •   Learning to Feel

      •   As Butterflies Awaken

      •   An Old School Chum

      •   Healing

      •   Small Lessons

      •   About Getting a Personnel Job

      •   Hap-O-Meter

      Chapter 7   Hope

      •   Everyday Offerings

      •   When I Spotted the Sheriff

      •   Beyond Words

      •   Not Just Love

      •   Feast

      •   Quietum Est Mare Profundum

      •   About You

      •   State of Affairs

      •   Cherry Blossoms

      Chapter 8   Observation

      •   Amateur

      •   Country & Western Lament

      •   Some Days

      •   One Ordinary Afternoon

      •   Vermin and the Vexed/Confessions of a Former Network TV Newswriter or…

      •   Ode To A Tomato

      •   Hollywood Retro

      •   No One Ever Said It Was Easy

      •   Reflection Pond

      •   Kissing

      Chapter 9   Longing

      •   A Poem For My Beloved

      •   Inside A Girl’s Sewing Basket

      •   My Comforter

      •   Request for a Gift

      •   My Unobtainable Object

      •   The Gardener’s Song

      •   God’s Full Attention

      •   What I Miss

      Chapter 10   Joy

      •   Our World

      •   Valentine’s Day

      •   The Poet on Vacation

      •   The Week I Learned To Trust

      •   Love Poem

      •   Smoocher’s Delight

      •   My Fancy Dancing Prancing Heart

      •   A Present From You

      •   A Laurel

      Chapter 11   A Place That Is Ours

      •   My If Only

      •   The Facts About Amelia Earhart

      •   Ivory Crisp Dream

      •   The Old Man

      •   What If?

      •   Does Living in New Jersey Bring You More or Less Love?

      •   My Friend’s World

      •   Aftermaths of Soft Septembers

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