Poems of Joy and Melancholy is a selection of poems written over a period of fourteen years from 2005 to 2019 They range from luminous moments of joy -when even the mundane can unexpectedly point to beauty to the eternal when we are offered a gift in spite of everything- to expressions of melancholy brought on by loss sorrow doubt the transience of life from which no one escapes They were written from the heart when verse was the only vehicle tha...