Carl Porten

A Poet's Reverie Carl Porten

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of themind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the nominee of Wordsbrew Authors' Award, first timeauthor, Carl Porten's ''A Poet's Reverie " is a beautiful journey to bring Carl's inspiring, poetic artwork to be unfolded like a reverie to the world as his poems deal with the themes of love, compassion, life, grief, veganism and nature conservation. Essentially Carl's volume of poems permeates the spirit itself. That Carl had been a humanitarian and an activist for many decades all through his life and all of his unheard and untold life experiences help diversify his unique writing style when it comes to his poetries an undeniable fact. Carl's poetry thus defies any genre and is all encompassing in the literal sense of the term as it touches all souls and all lives. This book is the testimony that shows how the universe manifests its power through lives as if these poems are a stream of reverie constituting a bigger cosmic tale that's being told. To sum up your experience, Maugham's idea can best describe your journey, "A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality." W. Somerset Maugham. Please enjoy this beautiful poetic work you're going to cherish for the rest of your lives...in every heartbeat... "To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes." AntoineRivarol.