ALMOST

By: Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

Do you see
how I love him true -
It could have been you.

As for you
And your love for she -
It could have been me.

But we were a maybe,

And never a must -
When it should have been us.

Characters (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 Speaker - someone who recalls a past relationship that didn’t work out

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 Sometimes, the things that we want the most in life don't always end up
the way we want it and the person that we badly need don't always end
up in our grasps.
 WOUNDED
By: Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

A bruise is tender
but does not last,
it leaves me as
I always was.

But a wound I take And if you should ask

much more to heart, which one you are,
for a scar will always my answer is -
leave its mark. you are a scar.

Characters (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 Speaker - someone who was hurt by someone dear to him/her

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 We are all fragile and vulnerable. When people leave us behind, we tend
to break and shatter. Some of them leave shallow marks that are easy to
hide and forget but most of them would give us cuts too deep to heal and
damages too critical to recover from.

Symbolism/s

 A bruise is tender
but does not last,  But a wound I take
it leaves me as much more to heart,
I always was. for a scar will always
leave its mark.
 A QUESTION
By; Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my
favorite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling - despite knowing it could unravel
around me.

“Do you love me?” I ask.

In your hesitation I found my answer.

Character (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 Speaker - someone who craves confirmation if the person he/she loves

loves his/her back

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 The answer to our questions sometimes lie, not in the verbal response of
the person being asked, but the actions that he/she tends to show.

Symbolism/s

 It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on
my favorite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling - despite knowing it could
unravel around me.
 A SNOWFLAKE FALLS
By: Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

A snowflake falls,
a story told,
its melting words,
were mine to hold,
I thought of you,
when hands
were held,
two lovers lost
to time
I tells.

Character (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 Speaker - a person who is reminiscing his/her lost love

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 When losing the person that you love seems to be impossible to find, the
least you could do is to just recall the happy memories that you once had.

Symbolism/s

 A snowflake falls, were held,

a story told, two lovers lost
its melting words, to time
were mine to hold, I tells.
I thought of you,
when hands
 WHEN
By: Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

“When did you stop caring?” he asked.

”When did you stop noticing?” she replied.

Characters (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 He - someone who came to a realization that the girl no longer pays any
attention to him nor his needs
 She - someone who got tired and fed up about the fact that her efforts are
not reciprocated

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 The moment we walk away from someone’s life is the time they realize
our worth.

Prepared by:
Jann Dynise B. Cuevas
 WALLFLOWER
By: Lang Leav

About the Author

 Was born in Thailand, but soon left for Australia, where she spent her
childhood.
 She is an international best-selling author and social media sensation.
 She is the winner of a Qantas Spirit of Youth Award and coveted Churchill
Fellowship.
 Her books continue to top bestseller charts in bookstores worldwide and
Lullabies, was the 2014 winner of the Goodreads Choice award for poetry.
 Love & Misadventure, published in 2013 was Amazon’s #1 Best-Seller.
 She currently resides in New Zealand with her partner Michael Faudet,
also a writer, in a “little house by the sea”.

Poem

Shrinking in a corner,
pressed into the wall;
do they know I’m present,
am I here at all?

Is there a written rule book,

that tells you how to be -
all the right things to talk about -
that everyone has but me?

Slowly I m withering -
a flower deprived of sun;
longing to belong to -
somewhere or someone.

Character (Persona/Speaker for Poetry)

 Speaker - someone who feels or is treated like an outcast

Theme/s & Universal Truths

 Not all of us are accepted within a social circle nor easily noticed because
some of us are perceived differently by society.

Symbolism/s

 Slowly I m withering -
a flower deprived of sun;
longing to belong to -
somewhere or someone.