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The book “An Expression of Love Told in Poems” took me a year and a half to write. I only wrote poems when I was inspired to do so. I am a retired rancher and am 77 years old.

This is a book of love and life. What is love? I have explained it in these poems: love for your mate or sweetheart; love for your parents and siblings; love for humanity; love for nature; and most of all, love for God. Along with these are poems about life situations. They will open your mind and touch your heart. The topics include poems of honesty, kindness and peace of mind to name a few. Love, and peace of mind, come from the deep stillness within yourself. Love is a facet of your Being, inseparable from whom you are. Inside this stillness is The Christ within, and the truth that God is True Love. True Love can be defined as the expression of the oneness of yourself with all of creation; the knowing that when you meet someone, or something, you are meeting yourself. This place within is where wisdom, knowing and truth are also found. There is a very deep abiding peace flowing from it. It has no shape, no form, but is who you are at your deepest level. This place contains infinite love because it is God within. It is eternal and never changes. It is consciousness itself. Your greatest source of Love, Joy and Peace is always within yourself. Peace is not found by rearranging “things” in your life, but by discovering who you are at your deepest level. These poems are cause to invoke emotions. Let them take you to that place deep within yourself where True Love and Peace reside. My greatest wish for you is that you too will experience the Love, Joy and Peace that dwell within you, drawn out by these poems.

“A Cowboy Shares an Anthology That Will Surely Invoke Your Deepest Emotions

A poem is sometimes thoughts that the heart can express but the lips can’t. So, it finds its way on the tip of a pen and on a piece of paper. Poems are like groanings of the heart and the mind. They express what the poet feels and it exposes the emotion at its rawest state. Genuine and bold, filled with love, or anger, or angst, of sorrow, or joy and victory.

Dave Rouhier lets us in on his heart and thoughts in his book “An Expression of Love Told in Poems.” The book is meant to invoke the deepest emotions but at the same time rekindle your appreciation for love, peace, and life. In this anthology, he subtly preaches the importance of love. Your love for your peers, your family, your neighbor, and most importantly your love for love Himself, God.

The poems within this collection will lead you to love life and everything that goes in between. It is meant to teach everyone that challenges are meant to make us strong and eventually lead us to accept them as part of life and what makes it beautiful. His interpretation of life and love is tastefully and artistically done in the sweet form of poems. He is able to reconcile artistry and comprehensibility in his poem. It reveals its meaning at face value and would make you rethink how you see things not just on a superficial level but from a more in-depth perspective.

This is indeed a work that should be on the shelf, coffee table, study desk, or anyplace at every home so everyone can gain a greater appreciation of the life we are given. For every day, we open our eyes is a gift we don’t deserve but a gift of love as a fruit of God’s grace. Appreciate the joy, appreciate the love and loved ones, appreciate peace, appreciate life.”