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    Setting Sail
    Setting Sail
    Setting Sail
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    Setting Sail

    By Nin Reckermann

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    This collection of poetry follows a lonely sailor, guided by the waves, the winds and the stars. In their solitude, they find solace in rhythm and rhyming.
    They are reminded of Greek mythology, wishing for a love like that of Eurydice and Orpheus, wanting to dance with someone to Apollo's music as Artemis watches from the moon. But as they find a love that lasts only a moment, they crash like Icarus out of their daydreams.
    With their wings cut, they discover themself anew as a creature of the sea. In the water, they find a love more like themself. Still tentative and fearing another heartbreak, they dare to dance between hope and hesitation so they might just find a harbor, a home, with their lover.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoD - Books on Demand
    Release dateAug 5, 2024
    ISBN9783759731869
    Setting Sail
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    Nin Reckermann

    Nin has been writing poetry since they were ten years old. After sorting through all roughly 600 poems they have written since, Nin has now compiled this first collection. In publishing it, they are fulfilling a life-long dream. With Setting Sail, Nin hopes to help their readers struggling with loneliness to find hope, happiness and love both in themselves and others.

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      Setting Sail - Nin Reckermann

      Setting sail

      they say ‘tis like the breath you take

      when breaking through the surface

      as throat’s reborn and cells awake

      and lungs relearn their purpose

      but ain’t it more like setting sail

      let go of soil and steady

      adventures ‘yond horizons hail

      and tell the wind you’re ready

      Pull me like the tide

      oh moon take me with you,

      pull me like the tide

      treat me like a wave of water

      never leave my side

      freedom may I find in letting go of all my pow’r

      you decide about my doing, every fleeting hour

      in your arms I’ll never

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