Beams Of Love

A beam is a slender ray of light radiating from its source. It offers illumination-and peace within. Poetry, too, shines like a beam from the heart of the poet. It becomes love, longing, youthful emotion... In essence, it becomes life itself. To the reader, it serves as a guiding light in the darkness. Just as the pink tulip is the symbol of innocence, Poetry gives voice to the purest, most heartfelt feelings. The poems in this book are beams of emotion-of love, of longing, of youth, and of the bittersweet truths that life holds. Each poem flows from the poet's soul as beams of sincerity, reflected gently to you, the reader. With every poem you read, you will find something of yourself-as if you had written it with your own hand. And as long as inspiration fills his heart and ink flows from his pen, the poet tells us, in the verses below, why he writes-and why he must: AS LONG AS INK FLOWS Let my pen remain my confidant until my final breath, So that the life I've lived won't simply vanish. Let my passion never fade, my ink never dry-May my words live on in this fleeting world. As long as ink flows from my pen, may life be born, May the inspirations of my heart breathe on each page. So long as I have time in this world, I vow to keep writing-To leave behind my share in the echo beneath the sky. Rakip Ertuğrul Eriz (of Skopje)