Torn Bits & Pieces

Torn Bits & Pieces by Deborah O'Toole a collection of poetry which includes Black Eyes, Blood of My Father, Bluebells & Fuchsia, Collective Obsessions (poetic rendering based on the fictional saga of the same name by Deidre Dalton), Color Me Woe, Confusion & Mr. Barrett, Dark Blue Moon, Drama, Edward, Fringes, Gentle Creatures, Heart in Dusk, I Will Never Marry, In the Town in the Time, Intoxication, J.D., Mind Control, Moonstruck Madness, My Name is Called Disturbance, Religion, Sad Passing, Screech & Moan, Siembamba, Silver Lining, Striking with a Spirit's Knife, The Rot in the Wood, The Spell, Year of Blood, You're Just a Boy and many more.

Collective Obsessions

Trapped incandescent swirls;

like raptly churning ocean waves.

Through milky, translucent pearls

and collective misty mind caves.

Kith and kin disavow as one;

fourteen decades and two of obsessive love.

No one has forgotten, and no one has won;

and yet forever dwell spellbound thereof.

 

 

*Note: The poem "Collective Obsessions" also appears in the fiction novel Megan's Legacy, which is the eighth book in the Collective Obsessions Saga by Deborah O'Toole writing as Deidre Dalton.