Cliff Turner
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An exploration of muzzled trauma.
“It never leaves, you know. That dull ache in the pit of your stomach, that gnawing, that haunting itch of something dying. It will always be there. If you’ve tasted the bitterness on the floor of your soul, you will never be rid of it. If you don’t know what I speak of, then you’ve not yet been there. If you do, then welcome. My words will not be able to help you. But in that is the hidden beauty.”
With this collection of poems, Cliff Turner will cast you into a river of doubt, shame and regret. Then, together, you will swim to the shore of a dubious conclusion.
Healing and Other Futile Endeavours
Jealousy And Other Terms of Endearment
Love, the most coveted form of insanity.
Who among us has not set aside distressing measures of good sense to pursue it? This, in spite of instinctive knowledge that perceived love is often false, imagined or delusional. Even love that is true constantly shifts and changes beyond all prediction. In that, though, dwells love’s beauty. It is an untouchable bliss that teases and haunts us all. Love continuously compels us to thoughtless and reckless action, rewarding only those brave enough to continue this pursuit eternally. Love’s warm and chaotic madness belongs exclusively to these fearless souls.
With this collection of poems, Cliff Turner explores love’s kaleidoscope of hope, despair, euphoria and agony. Culminating in an unsuccessful attempt to explain our addiction to its madness.
Blasphemy And Other Expressions of Faith
Religious faith is a fragile mask, hiding the shadows of destruction beneath.
In this haunting collection of poems, Cliff Turner, a preacher who has fallen from grace, dissects the arrogance of belief in unfeeling powers and the cold necessity of evil in shaping what we call good.
With brutal honesty and unrelenting introspection, Turner explores the cruel paradoxes of faith and the darkness that fuels its fire.
Bio
Cliff Turner writes from Edmonton, Alberta. He enjoys a highly eclectic lifestyle which is reflected in his writing. Delving into the raw emotions found in typical circumstances, Cliff's aim is to give a strong voice to that which is usually whispered.
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