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    40+ Love Ii: Four Seasons
    40+ Love Ii: Four Seasons
    40+ Love Ii: Four Seasons
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    40+ Love Ii: Four Seasons

    By Mi Sook Park Westman

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    Two years have passed after the separation from eighteen years relationship. Four seasons, one year have passed after the divorce. There have been pain and pleasure, sorrow and happiness, and frustrations and inspirations in every corner of four seasons for the lost heart and soul. As you read through each line of the poems, you can literally explore the landscape and the season that the author has experienced.
    This book starts with winter and finishes with autumn. Winter is the season of healing sores under silence and tranquil. Spring is the season of hoping for a new love under excitement and whispers. Summer is the season of hot passion under desire and lust. Fall is the season of a peaceful balance under recollection and reflection.
    The author refuses to give up a hope of everlasting love, trust on humankind, and belief in goodness and greatness in the universe. Continuous visits to fear and pain, but also to passion and hope, reveal a fragile and imperfect humanity within her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJun 24, 2013
    ISBN9781483647135
    40+ Love Ii: Four Seasons
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    Mi Sook Park Westman

    Mi Sook Park Westman in 40’s goes through an interesting journey unplanned in2011. Since then, she shapes her future as she wants, following her authentic desire in life. She published her first poetry book, 40+ Love in 2012 and now her second poetry book, 40+ Love II – Four Seasons is released in 2013. Writing poems is her passion and a therapy to overcome her inner conflicts and fears. She inspires herself and her readers with her poems and she wishes that her poems help those who go through their journey in their life of chaos and crises. She chooses to trust human kinds rather than doubt and she chooses to believe in God. There is God and Greatness within each individual, she believes.

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      Book preview

      40+ Love Ii - Mi Sook Park Westman

      Contents

      Prologue

      Fearless

      Winter

      One Winter Morning

      Total Silence

      Let You Go

      Can’t Let You Go

      Fearless Love

      Your World

      Airport

      Barossa National Park

      Stones

      The Oyster Bar

      Genelg

      Australia, a Land of All Good

      The Wanderer

      In Front of Your Father’s Grave

      After This Life

      A New Chapter of My Life

      Tonight

      Integrity

      How Long?

      Stay with Me for a While

      Our Journey

      Kisses under the Umbrella

      Do You Hate Me?

      Have I Told You that I Love You?

      Good-bye

      Our Lost Dream

      Find a Way to You

      Peace in My Mind

      Loss

      Dialogue

      Unplugged II

      Early in the Morning

      Disease

      Cut It Off

      Wanting

      Get Stronger

      Spring

      Spring

      My Irish Man

      Your Story

      Love Me Again

      If I Die Tomorrow

      Our Love

      A Phone Call Away

      I Come

      A Wild Thing

      Mr. Futurist

      The Pier

      Balance

      Miss You

      You Dry My Tears When I Cry Silently

      Love Is Real

      Bubbles

      I See You Soon

      What Is Love?

      I’m in Love

      Day-fly

      Home Alone

      One Spring Saturday

      Strangers

      The Stone

      Silence

      Back on the Road

      Lust

      Stolen Heart

      Longing

      Castle

      Feelings

      Rest in Your Arms

      Rain and Tears

      Time to Say Good-bye

      April

      Phantom (Written by a Devil Mind)

      Ordinary Day

      Ordinary Day II

      Extraordinary Day

      Rescue

      Human Touch

      A New Life

      Trust

      Fools

      Fear

      Monday Morning on the Last Day of April

      Dream

      A New Start

      New Love

      A Black Rose

      Summer

      Summertime

      My Universe

      Crazy

      Rescue

      Happy Day

      A Farmer’s Girl

      A Farmer’s Boy

      Loneliness

      How Many Days of the Year Are You Not Dead Tired?

      Closer

      Forgive

      Crying Again

      Desperate

      You with Your Italian Lover

      It’s All Yours

      I Want to Believe

      Let You Go

      Yourself

      Without You

      You Break My Heart

      A Bird and a Tree

      Want and Wish

      Love Again

      Lost

      The Last Day of May

      Beautiful Jane

      Longing

      Can I Count on You?

      Devils in My Ears

      Friendship and Love

      The Choice of Life

      Love Will Find its Way

      A Whole New World

      My Journey

      My Dream

      My Love

      Miss You

      Your Kiss

      Between Hell and Heaven

      Search for Yourself

      Be My Friend or My Lover

      Adventure

      Paradise

      Hope

      Happy

      You Are My Whole World

      Stairway to Heaven

      Superficial

      Naked Face

      Paris and Seoul

      Sleep Well Tonight

      Your Voice on the Phone

      Summer Concert

      My Mind Is Flying with You

      Pick Up Flowers

      Summer Rains

      Real Kiss

      Making Love by Myself

      Innovation

      When We Get Older

      Feeling

      The Thing that Connects You and Me

      Dreamer Has a Dream

      Statement of Independence

      In the Morning

      Once Upon a Time

      Fall

      The Fall

      Love of My Life

      Mother and Child

      When You Love

      Beyond

      Stay Up All Through the Night

      Wind, Rain, and Rainbow

      Paradise II

      Sorrow and Happiness

      September Night

      Love

      The Rain

      Dream

      I’m in Love

      When I’m Totally Alone

      Aspiration

      Getting Closer

      Being Myself

      Ache

      Love Again

      Once Upon a Time

      I Want to Be with You

      The Color of Autumn

      If There Is a Paradise

      Irish Heart

      Your Thought Is Your Reality

      Epilogue

      Life Moves Forward

      Dedicated to my love

      Park Westman’s poems contain a lot of potential.

      —Clarion Review

      A divorced mother in her forties shares her grief over the end of her marriage and her longing for a new love in her debut collections of poems.

      —Kirkus Review

      Mi Sook has her own language. Short and direct to the point. No unnecessary words. Shamelessly, she brings you right into the moment of her feelings, her dreams, her fantasies, her thinking, her worries, her desires, her needs, her lust, and her hope. It makes you feel like you are there with her when it happens. Ride her rollercoaster; it is fun, exciting, naked, and wonderful! Just as real love can be like.

      —Anonymous reviewer at Amazon.com

      Although the book is more directed toward women, I found it entertaining. To me it looks like a short phase in the life of a typical woman who encounters setbacks, falls in love. She describes this period in her life vividly and passionately, without claiming to be an accomplished writer. It is refreshing reading, straight from the block of a woman’s heart.

      —Anonymous review at Amazon.com

      Prologue

      It has been almost two years since I started to go through the separation process. In the middle of the separation process, I wrote my first poetry book, 40+ Love, and it was about heartbreak, finding a new love, having dreams, and drawing a vision of future. After the release of my first poetry book, I kept writing poems without knowing what they could become. After the divorce, one year has passed and I have explored four seasons. I found a colorful life in each season and a new love as well.

      This second poetry book is a journey I have had for a year after the separation. It starts from winter, then spring, summer, and finally fall. I dedicate this second poetry book to those who keep their love and those who never give up what they believe in. I don’t mean that we should search for a new partner actively on every occasion, but rather, we should focus on ourselves and find out who we are and what we want in our lives in the first place. Along the journey to ourselves, we might happen to find the one with whom we want to share our lives.

      My mother used to tell me that I shouldn’t trust humankind but should believe in God. I tell my mom that I will trust humankind and believe in God, no matter how hard life is to me. This is all about 40 + Love—love that is so strong and sustainable and love that is so awakened and conscious.

      I open my prologue with the very first poem of this book, Fearless.

      Fearless

      Fearlessly I was in love twice since the first one was broken

      The second one, I gave up since it was one-sided

      The third one, he broke up since I loved more

      Still, I’m fearless to be in love again

      I learn, I grow, and I transform

      To be better, wiser, and greater

      In each meeting with someone

      Some millions of singles out there, searching for the one

      I will keep my journey to find myself

      Along the way, I will find my right one

      Wise men said only a fool falls in love

      Clever men said only a fool believes in love forever

      I would say only the courageous dare to give all for love

      I would say only the rare understand what life is all about

      The only one I fear is myself

      The only one I need to fight against is my boundary

      The only thing that I focus on is who I am and what I am meant to be

      The fear disappears as I’m ready to be myself again.

      Winter

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      One Winter Morning

      Wake up in emptiness, weary and sore

      In this cold and dry winter morning

      Smelling smoke after heartburn

      Tasting blood after cries

      Slowly realizing the loss—

      Joy, happiness, and hope are gone in a blink.

      His last words echo in the air

      There is nothing you can’t do

      Sleep and dream a lot

      It’s going to be better and greater.

      Total Silence

      In total silence and darkness,

      Turmoil of hoping love storms the air

      One love, one heart, and one soul

      Searching for the other ones

      Endless journey, but then it is the one within

      Found the one within, burning slowly and steady

      Burning sound and raining silence marry.

      In this indifferently beautiful early morning,

      Eyes are opened

      Hearts are beating

      Mind is clear and peaceful

      Soul is in heaven.

      Let You Go

      I love you from the bottom of my heart

      I let you go since I want you to feel free

      I’d love to spend the rest

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