"Love with Vengeance" is an original collection of romantic poetry by award winning singer/songwriter, poet, and author, Luke Austin Daugherty. This work, originally published in 2005, contains twenty poems. Luke's relationship with his wife, Angela, was the inspiration for this book. The small town love story "The Chronicles of Simon the Lover" is also included in this collection. It is twelve chapters long in verse form and tells the moving tale of "Simon" and "Muriel" set in 1950's America. An excerpt from the title poem "Love with Vengeance" - Lovers Love with vengeance Love as to war against Your own frailty Love as to seek revenge Upon former occasions When your love was not love But a whim And your passion An impotent gesture