This poetry series by Sami St. Nicholas consists of three books and is titled Betwixt Heaven and Hell, named after a poem in the series.
The poem evokes life on Earth as a seesaw on a continuum teetering between good and bad, young and old, rich and poor. The implication is that life is a balance between heaven and hell, the symbolic ideation of teetering between good things and bad things.
It’s impossible to be an impartial bystander to the joy, pain, love, and laughter found in Relationships ; or to not be transformed, transfixed, or perhaps even repelled by the spiritual views in Heaven and Hell; and thoroughly entertained by the assortment of musings on other aspects of life in This and That.
Also available is Favorites a collection of favorites chosen from the three books in the series.
[POEM] I had a breakup today
A parting of the ways
A coming to an end
A breakup with a friend
[POEM] To be fair.
It didn’t start out this way.
You were loving and so kind.
So sweet and tender.
You called me all the time.
Spent hours talking. . .
[POEM] He has a secret place.
That he goes to.
I’m not welcome there.
He escapes to spin his dreams.
(And wallow in his pain?)
[POEM] My life don’t rhyme like some folks do.
It doesn’t gel in rhythm.
It walks a beat that’s syncopated.
It doubles down and triple steps.
It squeaks, it whines, it shimmies.
[POEM] In the English language.
The word perfect has a superlative meaning.
To be the best, above all the rest.
At the top; Unsurpassed.
Free from flaw, impeccable and pristine.
[POEM] Heartache is
The realization that your life is not.
the way it was the day before.
And the day before was better.
[POEM] I was five years old or thereabouts.
And I heard the shouts.
Piercing the darkness of my room.
It was you and mommy too.
Why is this my earliest memory of you?
