There are those unique individuals who can view life -- all of its triumphs, tragedies, people, places and events -- and put those observations in a written form that moves or inspires us.

Andrew J. Eaton has encapsulated life’s ups and downs and, from his soulspeak, created a poetic and beautiful rendering in Poetry in Motion or Speedbumps of Life. This anthology of poetry explores the territories of the human psyche -- love, loss, joy, grief and forgiveness.
Gleaning inspiration from his own personal life lessons, Eaton gets to the core of human emotion -- how pain can be a path toward healing, how losing love can inspire one to love him or herself, how music, works of art, films and everyday happenings can inspire us to take a leap of faith, and how the humanness in others can make us realize how we are all the same -- we want to be loved, listened to, and feel a connection to the world.

Poetry in Motion or Speedbumps of Life is a collection of work to be savored slowly, with reflection and a calm and open spirit. After reading, you may just realize your own dreams are truly possible.

 

The Easel of Life

The stand we all take to protect

A support given to hold and never hide

Our blank slate or paint less canvas

Holding life or an expression of it

Freedom to express and display with pride

Offerings of heart and soul

It holds sheets of music or visions of beauty

A simple construction, fondling dreams

Things imagined of and all life has to offer

Painting with the love of each brush stroke

Spreading color upon and eventually among us all

Audiences gather to embrace

Stealing or borrowing from one artist to inspire another

Robbing the tree of creativity and the fruit it bares

A hope to replenish or plant a seed of your own to repay

The stand of an instrument or the support of family

An easel to hold hearts and showcase souls

Alone we erect the stand as alone it is dismantled

The easel that holds life and takes it as quick

GODS studio welcomes all artists

We are all the result of HIS one master piece

 

About the Author

Andy Eaton is a poet and writer and works residential real estate. Mr. Eaton has written a second collection of poems and is currently working on a novel. He lives in Michigan.