The perfect gift for Valentine's Day, weddings, anniversaries, and anytime you want to experience the beauty and heartache of love. Ten poets combine their insight to create something truly unique and lovely. From that first tingling crush to the tears of goodbye, this book is a collaborative exploration of love in all it's forms and stages. The opening poem hits on the garden of possibility in each of us, and we move from there into the blossoming of new love, the fullness of loves bloom, the fruit of loves maturing, and the grief of love lost. Finally, we end with hope for love to become something new. This book will work it's way into your heart and stay there.
Authors
As a kid, CL Walters’s world revolved around two things: stories and make believe. She’s built a real life around those two passions as a teacher of stories and a writer of make believe. From a small town in Oregon, she attended college in a smaller town in Oregon majoring in English and adding experiences to fill her creative reservoir. She married her college sweetheart and moved to Hawaiʻi where she now lives. The rich diversity and cultural complexity of Hawaiʻi has added to the tapestry of her creative journey. In 2020, she started Mixed Plate Press—a publishing imprint—with her husband and has grown it into a thriving business as a published author, writing coach, ghostwriter, editor, and teacher. She says she reads and writes everyday and her mission as a writer is to create stories that resonate with the truth and offer a place of hope.
