Velvet and Barbed Wire Book Poetry can be healing

Poetry can be healing

In this book a clumsy heart’s desire to talk to this known stranger and to meet this person

and the mysterious ways love can heal

This is a tender collection of poems about the quiet chaos inside a woman’s heart — the love she gives

inviting them to pause

Velvet and Barbed Wire Book Poetry can be healing"Velvet and Barbed Wire" is a metaphor for something or someone who holds two contrasting qualities at once softness and danger, comfort and pain, beauty and harshness. Velvet represents luxury, tenderness, and warmth the gentle side. Barbed wire represents protection, pain, and boundaries the side that cuts if you get too close. Together, the poet captures mixed feelings or complex personalities: poet wants to convey she can be loving yet guarded,