Lost Love Poems, is a collection of 49 poems that takes you on a journey, this journey from love to heartbreak is personal yet universal. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Lost Love Poems will take you on a brisk walk through the wilderness of love: the good, the bad, the longing, the desperation, and the heartbreak. And, in the end, while thinking all love ever does is break, burn and end, it all begins again.

my demons cuffed me

to my past;

they love me

downtrodden,

vulnerable & scared,

but light

beams within

with the sway

of tall trees,

from chirping parakeets,

from cacti dancing free;

my light beams

up to Mother Moon,

from the light of souls

who have loved

& continue to love me

so I told myself upon writing this book

I will illuminate my darkness

and that

will set me free

Lily Clarisa’s Liquid Light celebrates the Ancient Greek’s

classifications of love: eros (lust), philia (friendship), ludus

(playful), agape (universal), pragma (enduring), mania

(obsessive), storge (familial), and philautia (self-love) in her third

poetry collection with dazzling illustrations by Linda de Vries.

Winner of the The Awesome Poet Award (Rotterdam, 2020)

and having participated as a Poeta di Patria judge (Aruba,

2018), Lily Clarisa is an Aruban poet, spoken word artist

and singer-songwriter based in The Netherlands with her...