LOVE IS EVERLASTING JOY As an inspirational and heartfelt journey through the heart of the poet, Love Resurrected is offered as a fresh compendium of poems that focuses on many relationships we experience based on the most important types of love we encounter in life. Love is always at home in the soul; love always leads one down one's chosen path in life. Most of us begin our journey of love with a sense of self love, familial love or with a sense of the desire for the unconditional love of God. At some point, we, outwardly, encounter romantic love, platonic, and other love - love for other life forms, material love, or love for inanimate things. Love itself is a journey into the heart as a dedication of joy, which makes the heart appreciative and causes the heart to sing. Love Resurrected alludes to and expands upon the importance of love as reflected or impacted as a result of marital and or broken relationships, as well as their restorations. Childhood and true friendships are also addressed in a positive light. True friendship is a river that never runs dry and like the vastness of the open sky stretches out into eternity. Poetically, true friendship endlessly blossoms as a beautiful rose as years go by, and illuminates and fills the heart with an inextinguishable flame of radiance, appreciation, and delight. Love is a journey into the heart as a dedication of joy, which strikingly, makes the heart happy. As a collective compilation of love poems, some deal with love as its overall point of view; however, themes such as honesty with oneself and others, self-reflection, self- mastery, and relationships between the impact of the past upon the present, are interlaced throughout, with a twist of the imagination, colorful expectancy, and exhilaration, as we sojourn life's highway. Life changes, faith, belief, and gratitude are presented, additionally, for the readers' self-elucidation. However, at some point in life, one comes to understand that love is always at home in one's soul, as love always directs toward one's primal destination. In summary, the following is offered to the reader to grace for reflection and contemplation: To you, this is a certainty: as life is a lesson to be well learned, listen to the love of your life and you will always be in tune with the better part of yourself. Listen to the love of your life and you will always be in sync with, attuned to the better half of yourself. What one fails to learn from one's spouse (mate, partner - soulmate) surely is what he or she is destined to repeat, somewhere or at some point in time. Therefore, seek balance in your life and harmony in every relationship. And perhaps, you too will truly come to understand the essence of Love Resurrected, and like this humble poet, you also will declare: "I love me to the extent I know the truth and to the extent I know the truth, thus, am I free. To the extent I am free so am I love; for only love can know love, and love knows love only. And like the sun, love radiates love. Moreover, I am love. As love, I am loving, lovable, and know no matter what circumstances or misfortunes may befall, 'love resurrected' is ever a truism as well as a possibility."