Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky
And you lift me up out of the two worlds.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops,
So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
-Rumi

A new generation of readers has fallen in love with poetry, and this collection will feed their need for accessible, beautiful poetry that speaks to their emotions. Organized around themes of love and desire, and including segments of classic works by poets like Rumi, Sara Teasdale, and William Stanley Braithwaite, this collection will appeal to fans of contemporary poets R.H. Sin and Amanda Lovelace.