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Hello, My Name Is Ann Monroe. I Am A Professional Novelist, Poet,
and Freelance Writer. I Hope You Enjoy This Small Sample Of My Work.

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Letters To Nowhere 01/20/03 A stack of letters Bound by satin ribbons    Tied with loving care Written to the love I lost So many years ago He will never read them He will never know I chose to turn away And just let him go At times I cannot shake the feeling So I write to him once more One letter turned to two And now there are many more Letters to nowhere Bound by satin ribbons Tied with loving care.

Love Of My Life 01/23/03 The love of my life A love untouched by time You held the only key To a door never opened A love that fate denied I saw your face Through every man I felt your touch Each time I held a hand I always felt you near When someone pulled me close So I turned And let them go You invaded my dreams They kept you alive in my heart Memories of so many years ago So painful and vivid I still sometimes cry So I could never let you go A love that cannot be mine The love of my life I will love you Until the end of time

If I Touched You 11/02/03 If I touched you Held you Felt your breath upon my skin Would the world begin to spin Would my lips quiver When we kissed Would I feel alive again If I took a chance To let myself love again If I let you in Unlocked my delicate heart Would it be worth the risk Of being wrong again Or should I just turn away and run If you knew I was afraid If you saw the fear in my eyes Felt me tremble when we touched Would you take advantage of me Or would you take the time to help me see That love doesn't come with a guarantee It's been years now Since I have even thought this way Avoiding the dark corridor of chance My laughter ceased with love's silence I closed that door long ago But somehow you made me smile once more I don't know if anything will come of this But I think about you more than I will admit Dreams of a world of maybe's And foolish as it is If you find your way to my door We may find something we never found before

Chance 11/14/03 Suffocating within the confines Of my somber reality Wrestling with the fear of chance Opening a forbidden door A desire for pleasure unexplored Stifled whims and fantasies A vision of perfection and control Never miss a cue Yet the yearning still lures me To but once forget A life so refined If only for a moment Set myself free Let my passion show Abandon my insecurities Gracefully let go

Christmas Love 12/06/03 As Christmas approaches I still find myself alone True love was never pondered When I was younger and should have known I just let my possibilities go I got so lost in being perfect I missed my chances so now I vow If I find true love someday For the past I will cease to pay I want to hold him so near Each and every night and day For the rest of our years. Maybe it is too late Or maybe it is just my fate I don't want a "Knight In Shining Armor" Just someone to hold me tight Take my heart so tenderly And let our love forever grow Guess I'm just a hopeless romantic Still hoping love will find me here While I sit by the fire The glow glistening in my eyes Toasting my lover When Christmas comes this year

Mystic Illusion 12/06/03 My mystic illusion Perpetual passion evolving Listening to your messages Thriving on our feast of fantasy Believing, yet not at all Delusions born of loneliness Time devouring my existence Give me more so I can breath Bleed my brain of all sanity Remove me from my loathed reality Find me in my tormented dreams Take me into our ecstasy Intoxicate me with your presence If only in my mystic illusion To Jareth

Home 01/12/04 I still smell the crisp fresh air Of the beautiful summer mornings When I would first open the door If I could only be there once more I still feel the sense of freedom Of my rolling hills and fields As I wandered down my paths of comfort I close my eyes and again I see them I still feel the refreshing warmth Of the afternoon sun on my shoulders As I receive my healthy glow Radiating the happiness I had come to know I still see my many gardens Of glorious and magnificent beauty Every bloom played it's delicate part Planted with great devotion from my heart I still see the phenomenal sunsets From my delightful front porch swing As I listened to the evening sounds sing I watched in awe with thankfulness I still remember the splendid nights The feeling, the sounds, and contentment A feeling I had never known before Knowing I was home My home My domain My solitary dream come true My heart and soul's adoration Now I remember when I left you Slowly, reluctantly driving away My final departure Down my winding driveway I remember how hard I was crying Inside I was curling up and dying I don't know how I found the strength to pack And I couldn't bear to look back I remember I couldn't even see the road And that horrible gut-wrenching feeling I felt would never go away God how I wanted to stay I knew a major chapter in my life Was forever ending As I tried hard to accept Life's cruel reality and devastation And never again Would I be home

Good-Bye 2003 01/12/03 The wind blew much colder In that long and lonely year I took a few more chances Learned I could be bolder And no regrets kept me near I didn't give in to fear Many soldiers died And the angels cried My faith often faltered And I never made it to the alter Love was still an illusion But the fire inside still burned Hope went out the window As my hunger made me thinner But the pain made me stronger I looked a little closer Took life a little slower Gained allot of wisdom But I was glad to see it go Good-bye 2003 Now you're just another memory

Tormented 01/25/04 In tormented nightmares Drenched in a cold sweat I awake screaming in the night Consumed by the terror Of stories yet untold In life's dungeons I dwell Searching for the lost and forgotten Living in the clutches of hell Giving up all hope when they fell Shadows mock me in the darkness The stench of death so near Fighting my apprehension My throat starting to swell I don't want to remember The rest is too horrible to tell This is where the nightmare ends I want to sleep and dream no more

Never To Dream 02/07/04 Never to dream Is surely never to live Ignored by others When visible outside But behind closed doors Lives a fantasy life In a tattered dress Of lace and bows Pink ballet slippers Worn out in the toes An entry A curtsy An elegant spin The room turns from drab To beautiful roses With ivory trim For dreams Keep you alive Even as they die No one would know Better than I