A Tender Force: Poems

a tender force is a volume of 100 powerful and moving poems by melissa joseph covering topics of tenderness, suffering, connection, sensuality, doubt, disconnection, sensibility, insight, becoming, darkness, infatuation and ordinary things. "Each poem in this collection is an exquisite and well-crafted facet of life. They reveal moments of clarity and mindfulness, insight into encounters with hard truths, disappointments, happiness, yearnings of the heart, tender and sometimes fleeting moments of love and connection, death and more. There is much wisdom to be found here." Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness "This delightful and thought-provoking collection of brief poetical reflections evokes a sense of mindful experience of living, sharing, feeling, being. There is wise perspective offered of subtle elements of life that may grab our attention, but deserve our deeper awareness. a tender force is likely to draw you into creating that deeper awareness within your own life." Jean Kristeller, Ph.D., mindfulness practitioner, scientist, and teacher

• | Author: Melissa Joseph
• | Publisher: Konstellation Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 28, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 188 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0998748293
• | ISBN-13: 9780998748290