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Love Is

Roy Benson

Publisher: Brown Dog Books

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Summary

With his graphic design expertise linking vision and verse, ‘Love Is…’ is the first of a 10-book poetry set featuring Roy’s life with his darling wife Nancy, who recently passed away.He hopes everyone in love will associate with the closeness he enjoyed during his longmarriage to Nancy through the prose and vibrant illustrations that are conveyed sobeautifully in each of his fluent and powerful observations that make the world go round.If I had searched a lifetimeI could never find another youIf the stars and fate are all they areThen I know they must be trueIf I had searched a lifetimeAcross lands paved with goldThe only place I’d wish to beIs with you to love and hold
Available since: 03/04/2024.

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