An Invitation
These poems are a gentle journey through the
Secret Garden of a Soul —
a soul reawakening, reconnecting to its essence,
and rediscovering the joy of authenticity.
My wish is that, as you read, you find meanings
that speak uniquely to your life.
May these words guide you to a quiet inner sanctuary —
a place of peace, delight, and unburdened joy
where your soul may dwell, unfettered.
A Message from Christine
This book is born of a lifetime of inquiry, reflection, beauty, sorrow, joy, and love.
It is a return — a reconnection to the soul’s true voice.
A whisper from the heart.
An offering from the depths.
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♦ For me, Poetry is a means of expressing our inner thoughts and feelings, our inspirations, insights and intimate experiences.
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♦ Life is poetry and poetry occurs all around us, in us and through, us all the time.
Poetry can be harsh and demanding, soft and yielding, delicate and dreamlike – and filled with stark realism.
It doesn’t have to rhyme, it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone other than the poet.
And it can blissfully, willfully ignore the rules of grammar and presentation.
Also – poetry can be prose, images, short, long, scribbled on the back of an envelope or inscribed in elaborate hand on expensive paper.
In essence, poetry is essence, yours, mine, ours, and it is personal yet universal, even cosmic, at the same time.
These poems are an invitation to journey through the Secret Garden of a Soul, a soul in the process of re-membering its essence and reconnecting to its authentic, joyful self.
My intention is that in reading the poems, you will find a meaning unique to your life,
and that you, too, may be led to a place of inner peace and joy, a private place where your soul can dwell unfettered by mundane concerns.
The Secret Garden of the Soul is an invitation to step into stillness, to rediscover presence, and to remember that we are never truly alone.
Some poems were written in solitude, others in celebration. Some carry tears, others light.
All are Love poems, in the purest sense:
written from and for the universal Source of Love that unites us.
♦ What You’ll Discover
♥ Poems of emergence — celebrating resilience, courage, and the human spirit
♥ Reflections on the soul’s journey — from separation to sacred union
♥ Illuminations of Love — not as romance, but as Source, as ReSource
♥ Pathways through darkness — where awareness is born through surrender
♥ Gentle invitations — to pause, breathe, remember, and return to yourself
♦ From the Dedication
“This collection is dedicated to the Universality of Love, to higher consciousness, to the rediscovery of connectedness and oneness …
that joyful emergence in progress.”
— Christine Miller