Just Poems

by Larry Logan

Overview

This book, these poems, were written during four confusing and painful years that began with the end of a 30-year marriage then sudden loss of a 17-year career due to a mental breakdown and the result of destructive addictions. It depicts a search for meaning in the interaction of self, life, and divinity. Just Poems is a journal of mental illness, depression, self-harm (cutting), alcoholism, suicide, and abusive relationship, and spiritual crisis. It is not all darkness though. Two sections of the book contain various random poems of a more lighthearted nature. These are not my poems. They belong to you, the reader. How you respond to a poem, what it means for you, is your experience that is different than my experience writing it. Also, they do not exist unto themselves. Each one is like a tree unaware that it is. When a poem is ready for birth, it talks to me, and I write it. It is just a poem, like a tree is just a tree. There are no good or bad treesjust trees, just poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503569300
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	05/20/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	393 KB

About the Author

In 1951, Larry Logan was born and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Larry has worked as a house painter, an elementary special education teacher, a custodian, a drug and alcohol counselor, and a life coach. Today he is retired, living in Vancouver with his wife, Tami. Larry began writing poetry in high school, the usual dribble that teenagers write, and continued to write on and off since. In 2008, after a divorce and loss of employment due to mental/emotional illness, Larry began writing daily as an expression of his personal journey from darkness to light. Larry likes to study the history of Christianity and development of its doctrines. He practices mindfulness and centering meditation.