Cycles of Love (Annotated Edition): Odes to the Cyclical Nature of Romance. This item is unavailable.Cycles of Love (Annotated Edition): Odes to the Cyclical Nature of Romance

Finalist for the 2025 International Book Awards for Poetry

CYCLES OF LOVE is a collection of autobiographical poems illustrating the cyclical nature of love and romance. Whether within a single relationship or spanning multiple relationships over time, love has its ups and downs similar to a sine wave.

Sub-Cycle 1 introduces that glorious infatuation phase as love blooms in a relationship.

Sub-Cycle 2 celebrates the wonderful peak of romance and love, where everything is beautiful.

Sub-Cycle 3 contemplates the waning of affection and the deterioration of the relationship, whether it be temporary or permanent.

Sub-Cycle 4, which completes the sine wave, mourns the depths of depression, despair, and self-evaluation that comes at the end of a relationship or at a nadir within a long-term one.

But life doesn't stop at the end of one cycle. With any luck, when the cycle is over, we pick ourselves back up and start all over again, whether this be searching for a new love, or repairing fences on an existing one. This is what I call Sub-Cycle 5, although it's really a reboot of the first sub-cycle, as the sine wave continues.

This book comes in four Editions:

1. An Abridged Edition without individual annotations for each poem.

2. An Annotated Edition, where each poem has a companion essay that describes what was going on in the author's life that inspired the creation of that poem. It is a memoir inverse of the author's romantic life.

Each of these editions is available in both paperback and ePub versions, bringing the total members of this series to four.

This book is the Annotated Edition.