Announcing the release of my 10th book of poetry;
When Sea Kisses Shore
Love is the most sublime mystery in human life. Throughout the ages, it has been celebrated by poets and playwrights, analyzed by scientists and philosophers, and sought after by people in all walks of life. It can knock us on our butts, stop us in our tracks, sweep us off our feet, lift us to the stars, and push us over the edge.
When Sea Kisses Shore explores the power of love to touch and transform us, which sometimes occurs in a single tidal wave, a tsunami that slams onto the bank, tearing down our habitat and sweeping most everything we once held precious into the sea. But more often it is the culmination of wave after wave mostly spilling gently on the shore mixed with surges and plunges and inshore waves that drain the beach as a backwash, wearing down our rough edges, smoothing our rocky surfaces, and shaping our shore in ways we cannot predict.
Nothing belongs more to each other
than the sea and the shore.
Excerpt from The Duet
This may be the most powerful transformation love works over us: restoring us to the mystery of life and reminding us of our place in the family of things. If you have ever felt yourself brimming with desire for someone, for some place, or for some thing; or if you have ever dared give your heart to another or to life, this collection of love poems is for you. If you have ever known loss and loneliness, felt defeated by the heartbreak of desire, and longed to be made whole again, this book is for you. If you have ever been at a loss for words to share your love, this book will give voice to what lives in your heart!
“Nick LeForce writes with his blood. His passionate, authentic search for the Real courses through every line and leaves its mark in the heart of the reader. His poetry illumines “the newness of things already known,” and never more so than when he speaks of love - the love of God, the love of another, the love that marries heaven and earth. Read his work and you will see the world with fresh eyes.”
When Sea Kisses Shore
When the shore
like a lost lover
wanting
to be ravaged
bares itself
to the sea
“Nick LeForce weaves words in ways that move me… in the same way as Tolkien, Auden, Spender, Wordsworth, Keats, LeGuin, Richard Bach and Shakespeare and many others where I have found inspiration and hope from sometimes desperate situations….I am profoundly in your debt for your gift of poetry.”
And when
the sea
comes
with its
tender
foam
kisses
offering
an ocean
of embrace
no heart
is left
stranded