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    Heart Shaped Sin
    Heart Shaped Sin
    Heart Shaped Sin
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    Heart Shaped Sin

    By Peter Anstiss

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    Heart Shaped Sin is a small gathering of poems and lyrics about those fractured fragments of guilt, desire, joy and loss that expand across the timelines of our lives. The title was conceived during the purchase of a guitar and is a mantra for all those moments we bow to our weakness and find new strength. From the flowing confession of loves’ entanglement that is 'Rope', to the bitter loss of, 'A Mother's Tears', the writer drifts us into the singers confession that first love will always linger in 'Different Streets', before telling us a final truth in, 'My silent Pen'.
    ‘These small things, our Heart Shaped Sins’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Anstiss
    Release dateFeb 11, 2016
    ISBN9781310869020
    Heart Shaped Sin
    Author

    Peter Anstiss

    I am a writer of songs, poems, short stories, fantasy novels, big lies and terrible truths. My aim in all forms of my work, is to evoke emotions and entertain. I guess that is the end game for all writers. So if you read something and it makes you smile, or makes you sad, fills you with joy, or reminds you of lost love then I am doing something right. It’s not all about you though. Writing is therapy and fun all in one.

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      Book preview

      Heart Shaped Sin - Peter Anstiss

      Heart Shaped

      Sin

      A collection of poems

      and songs

      By

      Peter Anstiss

      Text Copyright 2016 Peter Anstiss

      Published by Peter Anstiss at Smashwords

      All Rights Reserved

      This book may not be reproduced or performed in any form, in whole or in part, without written permission from the author. This ebook is licensed for your personal use only and may not be re-sold or given away.

      Cover image Copyright 2016 Peter Anstiss

      For more information about the author visit his web site:

      https://petescribes.wordpress.com

      Contents

      Forward

      Heart Shaped Sin

      Rope

      Let Go

      Discarded Rings and Scattered Things

      The Fields Where My Mother Played

      Forgotten Shades

      Drifting Timelines

      My Empty Space

      Guilty

      Love and Other Old Addictions

      The Grave Digger

      A Patch of Perfect Skin

      Not a Sunbeam

      Butterfly Dream

      Different Love

      A Mother’s Tears

      The Rainbow Chaser

      The North Wind

      Temptation

      Fast Forwards and Rewinds

      Pretty in Pink

      Shouting at the Stars in Cyber Space

      Different Streets

      Ocean Magic

      My Silent Pen

      Forward

      So what is a heart shaped sin?

      The term came to me whilst I was

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