Poetry that pull the heart strings
'Emotional Foreplay' written from male's perspective
Author Myron Neville offers various forms of poetry about people's realtionships with each other and with God in his book, "Emotional Foreplay."
A book was written to show males, as well as females that it is OK to struggle because everyone else does and Someone will always be there to pick them up. Myron D. Neville wrote a book, titled "Emotional Foreplay: Inspirational Writings and Poems" that was written from a male perspective, but that allows both men and women to relate.
The 32-page book is full of different poems and stories about things varying from relationships with people to relationships with God. The point of the book is something in it exists for everyone, Neville explained.
Neville, 44, started writing poems while in his alma mater, Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis. For him it was something to do. He never had any idea that he would ever publish any of his work. However, everyone around him seemed to think it was a great idea.
The stories and poems in his book are those of situations Neville saw people going through around him as well as situations he himself faced, Neville said. Seeing his friends go this hurt and pain that they would go through gave him the inspiration behind some of his poems.
The other inspiration of Neville's is seen throughout the rest of the book. Several of Neville's writings are about a person's relationship with God. Neville said his relationship is foremost his driving force in life.
"Without God, noting is capable," Neville said.
Indianapolis native Frank Patterson acknowledges the importance of God in Neville's book. He said the book helped him find something he can relate to.
"This book is the truth," Patterson said. "It is really short, but it is so real. It helped remind me that there are people in this world that suffer the same way I do. There are people in this world that have the same triumphs and failures I have. It really is a great, inspirational book."
It was important when trying to get the book published that the length of it was not long because he knew that most men, including himself could not sit and read for a long period of time and wanted something that men could pick up and read while on a lunch break and get some quick inspiration, Neville said.
However, most publishers did not see things the same way Neville did.
"A lot of publishers said they wanted at least 50 pages, and even though I would try to explain to them why the book was as small as it was, they just did not seem to want anything to do with it because it was as short as it was," Neville said.
Finally, after getting turned by a number of different publishers, he finally found RoseDog Books, a publishing company in Pittsburgh, which was very interested in the short book. They accepted and published his book for the public in January. Now, he is just waiting around to see how successful his book is to decide whether or not he will write or copulate other poems into a book.
In the meantime, Neville said he is still writing poems and supporting her wife, Doris, with her new book titled, "My Heart Speaks," which is also a compilation of poems and stories about having Christ in her life and about finding her true love in Neville.
