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Life as It Is & Other Poems

By: Kara Bernard
Narrated by: Sami Ro
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she speaks of her life, of death and rebirth / and what it might be like to learn from the earth / of gray, tired thoughts and what it all means / why hearts beat so red and grass grows so green / she writes it all down, to her soul’s wild delight / in scribbles and lines ‘cross her arms and her thigh / she gathers them all like a squirrel with her seeds / and carefully plants them betwixt all the weeds / poems of love, and hate, and the self / and fictional tales about witches and hell / they all grew to height and took root in this book / to give you, dear listener, a moment to look / inside of a stranger’s strange, colorful mind / that spends all its days lost in space, dreams, and time...

With flowing rhymes, intoxicating free verse explorations, and vivid imagery, LIFE AS IT IS & OTHER POEMS will take you on a powerful journey through life and loss, depression and self-acceptance, nature and the universe, and everything in between. It will wrap its arms around you and cry with you. It will scream at the world and fight with you. It will teach you to grow wings and fly with you. It will show you life, as it is.

©2021 Kara Bernard (P)2024 Kara Bernard

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