Journey Home c.2013, Olan L. Smith Journey Home is a collection of poems that is a personal search for my spiritual home. I go about this search with the tools of poetry using the English language as my map. Love, peace and freedom, Olan L. Smith

My readers are the witnesses to these jumbled thoughts that crash and collide in my head, that my fingers from the letters to words that work their way into sentences that become stories and tales for your brain to pull apart into sentences and words and simple thoughts that will float around in your mind as well.

These words have escaped the city of my heart and are refugees here with their tents on the pages of this book beseeching nationalities of your hearts. Give them the nationalities of your heart.

This book contains poems that talk about the mind and soul, and how they find peace through the waves of struggle and pain.

Let this book submerge you with heartaches, drown you with traces of the past, flood you with self-wonders, wash you with waves of healing, immerse you with romance, and fill you up with colors, but only if you dive into this ocean of poetry and let every word take you into the deep.

These are thoughts born under the moon's glow; when sheep has run out, and sleep's a child playing hide and seek with the mind. Some moonlit verses from a pillow-hugging girl.

poetry is an art carved with mind, heart and soul. It creates another door towards human's infinite thoughts and emotions. HIGHEST RANK #31 (12.29.17)

❝I wanted to kiss you, but you told me you don't like the taste of rainbows.❞

Poetry to be taken with bitter coffee and read with icy toes. All the best things in life fall on a colourful spectrum of grey. Previously titled Not Right. (Cover: Negative of X-Ray of Meret Oppenheim's Skull, 1964)