Heartsongs

A collection of poems inspired by 2020, life, love and other demons. Personal. Insightful.

heartsongs and Lanslide Cafe

#weareone

I’m a person of color

I look just like you

The only difference

My skin is a different hue

I love and I cry

And one day like you

I will die


The Landslide Café

A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Isabel’s world is turned upside down when Joe, her husband of twenty-six years, trades her in for a younger model. A cliché? Maybe. Does not feel like a cliché when it happens to you. “Forty-eight. Daughter, girlfriend, wife. Always somebody’s something, except mother. Joe never wanted children. Until now. Left me for a younger woman, such . Happened all the time, right? Common, right? Didn’t feel so common when it happened to me. New life, new beginning. Why then does it feel like the end? Because Joe hasn’t loved my face in a long time.” The book has colorful, evocative illustrations.

Take a Peek at Chapter 1 of The Landslide Café

Beautiful poems, eliciting a multitude of feelings while going through this past year +. #openyoureyes is one of my favorites. Sorel’s heart is on every page and she has touched mine. I will re-read these many times. I believe her words are mirroring the hearts of many. She sure has given voice to mine and her feelings are universal. I love Sorel’s writing and all her illustrations. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎❤️ Elliemae