The Trembling Tear: Songs of the Inner Voice

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This is a collection of 35 poems about personal spiritual struggle, counter-cultural political struggle, whimsy, myth and Spirit. Don’t look for soulful prose-like poetry evoking the “glories” of the mundane and the ordinary. These poems demand engagement from your deep awareness and will pull you into an interior world where connections are made in non-linear fashion and emotions have no name.

The poems are composed in a variety of forms and styles—metered and unrhymed, structured unmetered, mixed meter, visually constructed, and even metered and rhymed. Poems vary from a simple stanza to a seven-part minor epic. The poems move from symbolism, to allegory, to existential anguish and remorse, to ecstasy and bliss. All are incredibly rich in imagery and meaning.

Most of these poems were penned from 1987 to 1996 during a period of my life when poetry fulfilled a deep felt need for self-expression. There are a few short “postscripts” from 2015. Looking back, with slight editing, these poems have stood my own test of time.

It is my hope that you not only enjoy these poems but that they lead you into your own interior, imaginal world. -- Gargatholil