This is a second edition. It includes an additional ten poems (mermaid based poems have been added). This is a collection of 88 free verse poems. The format for this book is comprised in the following 5 parts: mermaid poems, love and love lost, nature and myth, poems about life, poems about death and darkness. Some of these poems reflect how the author felt at the time it was written, while others are merely fictional creations of an imaginative mind exploring the human psyche. Among the author's favorite poets are Emily Dickenson, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare (among others).