A Suffering Soul: Dark Love Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497334403)

Darren Heart Born amid the rolling hills of the South of the United Kingdom in 1968, Darren Heart has always found poetry a comfortable medium for expressing, and processing some feelings and emotions. Love poems were a particular passion, although often passionate and private by nature. Indeed love poetry often served as valuable communication tool with his long term partner. Tragedy strikes the family when his long term partner becomes unwell, requiring significant surgery and a lengthy hospital stay. Once again romantic poetry steps in to lend a hand, with loving poetic messages tucked away in Get Well Soon cards. Tragedy, unlike lightning, can indeed strike twice, some nine months later, his partner's struggle for life comes to an end. Tragedy thrice, only four days later, her son sadly passed away suddenly from a massive heart attack, caused by the same genetic disorder that had taken his mother from him too soon. Heart-broken, overwhelmed by grief, and suffering the extra strain of new found single parenthood, Darren soon turned back to the pen, using poems to document and help process his feelings. Over the next ten years Darren's writing, as yet not shared with the world, played an important role in his journey to recovery from such tragic bereavement, and therefore now makes his poems available to the public. His goal is to provide some comfort to those who may be struggling with a similar journey. The forthcoming book My 5 Stages of Grief by Darren Heart is a chronicle of this journey to recovery, containing poems related to the various stages of grief; Denial, Bargaining, Depression, Anger and Acceptance are all covered via the medium of poetry and prose. (Available June 2014)