Publishing More Poetry! (Introducing... 'Between the Lines Anthology')

I'm so grateful and excited to be sharing about this collection of poetry put together by my friends and fellow authors at Skillful Pen Press! Between the Lines is their newest collection of poetry, featuring poems from 21 different authors around the world (including 3 of my own), and is centered around themes of love and faith enduring through trials. And it is beautiful. So many talented writers submitted their poems to this -- I can't wait for you to learn more about the book and hopefully get to read some of their work!

Between the Lines

Our poetry anthology, Between The Lines features sixty poems by twenty-one different authors. Centered around themes of love, struggles, and faith in Jesus, this anthology is an uplifting book, full of poems that can be remembered and loved by people of all ages for years to come.

Featuring poems by Alladene Grace Hadden, Kanasy Yeager, Hannah Calhoon, Hazel Honegger, Skylar Rivers, Blessing Hope, Leighton Opperman, Lissie Laws, Erin Hylands, Rachel M. Adams, Sana Baig, Autumn Grace, Owen Leo Snook, Autumn Acosta, Ava Hope, Jaela Doming. Jessica Sprecher, Anna Kaitlin Fletcher, Emily Sweeney, Margaret Pierce, Evelyn Harwood, and Cadence B. Witt.

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Why must the glass 

be shattered and flowers wilted 

on the trodden path:

delicate trampled to bleed in the gore 

of careless words unbridled?

Why must the water spill out and wet the dust?

What was a beautiful vase of violets is 

utterly demolished and 

seems beyond repair, 

But the tender hands of kindness 

collect the broken pieces and 

slowly place them back together.

Reassembling takes time, 

but in the end, 

it becomes whole.

Still, there are scars that tell a story 

and chipped glass that bring back 

recollections of the shattered state.

Nevertheless, 

new flowers bloom and the 

mangled ones are tended to.

Old wounds and petals abashed 

are rendered to gentle care

and a grave,

forgiven and left to the past.

So fix what has been broken and

replant what has been torn.

Fill again the tattered vase so

the violets can thrive

once more.

- 'Violets' by Ava Hope, Between the Lines: A Poetry Anthology *

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Do you write poetry? Who is your favorite poet (I enjoy Emily Dickinson 🥰)? How has your autumn been, friend? I would love to hear from you in the comments!

Now go change the world,

 -Ava

* Poem originally published in Between the Lines: A Poetry Anthology from Skillful Pen Press | All rights reserved