Pain and Promise

{Click here for links to all poems in series} Poem 1: After a Mostness of Hurt Poem 2: Analogies for Love Poem 3: Mother Greets Newborn Poem 4: Beneath a Flirtation Poem 5: Bidentity Poem 6: Bittersweet Poem 7: Bond Poem 8: Doing What One Can Do Poem 9: Electric Heart Poem 10: Fireplace Poem 11: Friendlight Poem 12: Gifts That Stay Poem 13: Hot Date or Soul Mate? Poem 14: Kind of Poem 15: It All Rises Poem 16: Just Asking Poem 17: Love Is Poem 18: A Love Song Poem 19: A Meditation Poem 20: The Middle Way Poem 21: A Millennial Date Poem 22: Mother's Secret Poem 23: A New Fading of Before Poem 24: One Glance Poem 25: Pain and Promise Poem 26: Quiet Poem 27: Release from the Known Poem 28: Restaurant Miff Poem 29: River Pair Poem 30: seeing you Poem 31: Sensing a Future Poem 32: Song of the Sick Minstrel Poem 33: Three Kisses Poem 34: Three Root Words Poem 35: To My Wife Poem 36: Two Birds in a Tree Poem 37: Walk

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