Emotion and compassion are evoked in the poetry and photography of "From My Poetic Heart." This marvelous compilation of 4 volumes of poetry: Heartstrings, Heartbeats, Heartfelt and Heart-2-Heart depict the vast range of emotions associated with the heart, love, and loss. Over the past 10 years, L. Diane Hindman has fine tuned her artistic gift and touches your soul, your mind, your heart and your love for great poetry and photography in a way that has never been done before. "Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul 2" chose and published one of Diane's poems. In addition, Diane's poetry was extremely well received within the poetry community in Colorado and won 8 awards from the Poetry Society of Colorado in their 2001-2002 poetry contest.