WHEN ROSES BLOOMED

As partner poets strolling in this second volume along the endless route to poetic maturity, we are convinced that humans are the species of the hearts and deeply influenced by powerful emotions we may not adequately explain or fully express. The satisfactory reception of our first volume encouraged us to work harder to offer readers the best poetry we can provide and obtained by serious editing and significant revision but we remain students of life and keen observers of human behaviour. It is not necessary to define poetry. If poetic forms cannot define themselves and convey their content clearly, it may be that poetry did not fail but the poets did. Both of us consider ourselves lucky to join our talent to integrate the natural and unique space between man and woman where emotions can be shared and appreciated. Of all human emotions nothing is sweeter than love and nothing is more bitter; nothing is more powerful and nothing is more fragile, but it is far better to love and fail than never to fall in love. When it comes your way, you need to be prepared. Ignited by a mysterious spark, and like a baby, it needs to grow, and in time turns into a lighthouse beacon that lights the way ahead. In this new volume, we have expanded the fields of treatment to include fresh poetry pulses and scenes, humour, poetic narratives, happiness and suffering, war and peace, as well as love stories of friends from several countries who shared with us their ideas of what amorous feelings are all about as individually experienced.