I Dedicate To Love: Poems From The Soul

I Dedicate to Love, a collection of elegantly interwoven sensually provocative poems from the genius of H.L. Nichols.

Seldom do you find a contemporary poet with the wordplay of a language scholar with such competency in the usage of the urban vernacular, particularly one capable of using them in the same piece. There is an art like quality to the abstract freestyle approach; the creation of movement through the meaningful expression of words.

It is difficult not to be baited, not to be drawn in and not to be engaged. It is most difficult to escape the thought that each verse was placed for a purpose with a depth and meaning all its’ own. You find yourself digging for the treasure, wanting to be on the next page.

Included in I Dedicate to Love are love poems to be considered the poet’s finest works: She Comes to Me In Dreams, I Paint Pictures, It Was You, We Made Wow and In This Chair.

An ideal Valentine’s, wedding and or anniversary gift. There are few things that are as intimate as reading poetry to the one you love. To say, “I love you,” or, “I’ve been thinking of you.”

A chilled glass of your favorite wine and smooth music will set the mood to get into I Dedicate to Love.

(From I Relapse)
I relapse
92% of heroin addicts
70% of convicts that keep coming back
Like water I run to river and sea
Believe the Pied Piper, See me

Your lips within me, heart shivers
And my spine pines and tingles
Like a crack fiend wanting crack
Like love wanting you back
So I relapse
©2015

(From It Was You)
Hurried to judge me
They will not find that
Within the treasure
The embodiment
Given weight volume
Was truly not my genius

It was
You
©2015