Collections – The Works of P.D. Guertin
Welcome to my collections page—a home for my published and in-progress books. Each collection explores love, memory, and perception from different angles, offering you unique ways to experience poetry and prose. Use the table of contents below to explore each book.
Table of Contents
- Themes of Love – A poetic odyssey through passion, loss, and transformation
- Instinctual Love – Reflections, poems, and letters of the heart
- The Breath Before Sound – Poems on presence and perception
Themes of Love
- A Poetic Journey Through Passion, Loss, and Transformation
Themes of Love is more than a collection of poems—it is a layered emotional odyssey. Across six immersive sections, it carries you through the spark of first connection, the depths of intimacy, the struggles and breaking points, the grief of absence, and finally, the quiet yet powerful transformation that follows.
Each poem is designed to make you feel love’s pulse—its shifting seasons, its unpredictable tides—whether you are standing in the rush of new connection, the ache of heartbreak, or the silence of reflection. This is not just a book of poetry, but a mirror for every stage of the heart’s journey.
Instinctual Love
- Reflections, Poems, and Letters of the Heart
Instinctual Love is a testament to passion that bypasses reason and demands to be felt. In three sections—Where the Stars First Saw Us, Falling In, Falling Hard, and Flesh Remembered the Flame—it captures the spark of recognition, the surrender to desire, and the memories left behind by intimacy lived deeply.
Through reflections, letters, and raw lyrical poems, this book explores love as instinct—inevitable, magnetic, transformative. It is a record of how touch, memory, and devotion endure even after the moment has passed.
The Breath Before Sound
- Poems on Presence and Perception
The Breath Before Sound turns its gaze toward stillness, presence, and the way perception shapes our lives. Across five parts, it explores beauty in motion and stillness, the warmth of memory and connection, the glimmer of the divine, and the edges of knowing where words falter.
This collection is meditative yet vivid, weaving nature, intimacy, and reflection into lyrical snapshots of being. It invites you to pause, to breathe, and to notice what exists in the quiet between one heartbeat and the next.
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