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Hearts Under the Moon: Poetry, Heartbeats, and Follies

by Carol Bryan Cook

95 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); poetry; catalogue #07-0566; ISBN 1-4251-2164-0; US$15.00, C$17.25, EUR11.69, £7.75

Snapshot images and encounters on life and love unfolding, its mysteries, uncertainty, passion, and humor. Poetry springing to life, uplifting, warm, and sensitive, perfect to share with a friend.

About the Book

Hearts Under The Moon: Poetry, Heartbeats, and Follies is an offering of emotions that flow like cool water bubbling up from the human heart. Reflecting on people and events that influenced her life, the author lays bare a heart traveling through the hourglass of time. Here we find joy struggles and entanglements, pleasures and people that contribute to our life.

In an effort to find, keep or reconcile love and loss of others, the author characterizes timeless love, uncertainty, and hope. She outlines the mysteries, memories and moods of love and friendship, of family and identities, communicating to us how true and unshackled life can be.

Reading this book of snapshot-like images and encounters as life unfolds, one can feel a lifting of a heart, and perhaps learn of the possibilities and impossibilities of life.

So read, the author asks, and see if your conclusion is the same as hers. "Love is the essence of everything in our journey on this earth a journey everyone should make."

Reviews

"At times, Carol Cook's poetry sent chills down my spine as her vulnerability, passion playfulness wit, and even anger, passed from the pages straight to my heart. We can all relate to her poetry."

Candace L. Gray M.S.,L.P.C.

Hearts Under The Moon prescribes a healing balm for life. From those emotional gut-wrenching events to poignant reflections Carol Cook takes the reader through the joyful and painful glimpses of life. Her poetry shares happiness and heartbreak, and it's perfect to share with a friend."

Peggy Purser Freeman
Author and Editor of Granbury Showcase Magazine

About the Author

Born and raised in the farmlands of sourthern Ohio, Carol's family considered her a daydreamer, the adventurous, and creative sibling of four. It would be that adventurous spirit that took her half way around the world and crisscrossing America for over twenty-five years, travels that would become a door opener for her writing.

Carol "set sail" with her career military husband to far away places she had read about as a child. Her travels, unique and myriad experiences, friendships, and losses encountered while traveling and living in thirty-nine states and seven countries, provided her with never ending material to put pen to paper. She wrote of the heart-ache, joy, and questions of life, and how they touched her heart, and of those she met along the way.

She describes the words she puts on paper as emotional, happy, and nostalgic, perhaps a language in itself telling stories of the waltzes she, and those around her danced and experienced in life. Stories and poetry that are written with a carefree and lovable, tender insight to the stages of love and the entanglements the heart endures.

Trained as an artist, Carol has exhibited and sold her art for forty years. She has designed a number of products, owns two patents and four copyrights on her work. She has co-authored one published novel, a TV movie script, and authored two books of poetry and many published articles. She lives in Texas.