"Discoveries in the Dark
Each one of us is born from the dark and returns to the dark.
I would suggest as well that we live our lives in the dark. By this I mean that we, as strangers in this world, spend our time trying to understand what to make of everything. Our life-spans are not very long for us to explore what life is and how to navigate it.
Throughout my life I have tried to get by as best as I could while sometimes negotiating deep, dark periods. In the whole process I have made discoveries that have been small illuminations and have been significant enough to prompt me to express my thoughts and feelings in poetry.
This book is a collection of some of those discoveries."
I recently self-published "Discoveries In The Dark" which is a book of sixty-five poems that I have written over the years. It was a labour of love and a way for me to reveal feelings that have remained unexpressed for a long time. Some of the poems are very personal whereas others are observations of the wonders of nature. Here is an example of the latter.
Alone in nature's quiet woods
I
sit in melancholy thought
and
feel a soft wind blowing.
I
turn and see there stands a fox -
his
amber eyes are fixed on mine.
I’ll
know no better moment.
And with a thrill, I see
through
amber eyes as well.
And
feel a change of gravity
and
share his light-footed trot.
2019
© Doris Potter
Check this out! I was #51 on Amazon's best seller list for Canadian Poetry, thereby beating out Leonard Cohen's book at #53!
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