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    The Old House's Poet
    The Old House's Poet
    The Old House's Poet
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    The Old House's Poet

    By Antonio Marques

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    Among so many old things inside the oldest large house of Terra Nova, Raquel finds many lost poems long forgotten in time. She also finds other poems in different places with various people.

    The starting point of this story is about the interest of the main character from this book into unclosing a mystery: Who is or who was the old house’s poet?

    Between this plot, one question we frequently ask ourselves. Are the time and the love a perfect couple or enemies? I advance that I have no answer for this question in this book, though the reader can reflect and get to their own conclusions.

    What we know is that in many cases the time can be a hope for those who seek to live a great love, that is, even if today the circumstances aren’t positive, it's waited to be living a great love with intensity on the long run. Now for others, time can be negative, since if love is too late it can be suffocated or even murdered by the social standards and the people who can’t accept the fact of two individuals living their love story, forbidden or not.

    The character Raquel will take the reader to a trip into the poems found in the old house. The said poet was depending exclusively on time to be able to live the great love of his life.

    He found on the poems a way to encode his messages, his desires and to proclaim the love he felt for his beloved. He suffered with the dismissal, the distance and the circumstance. On the other hand, he found joy in hope and the fact of being loved by his other half.

    Love and time. Two words that can mean so much. Passion and poetry also stand for strength and magic. Let the love lived by the poet shows you that many times we must fight to live the passion and not leave it for later, it can be too late.

    Learn with Raquel the significance of preserving the history of old times, but above all, of keeping alive a beautiful love story!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateMay 16, 2019
    ISBN9781393323860
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      The Old House's Poet - Antonio Marques

      Love & Time

      Among so many old things inside the oldest mansion of Terra Nova, Raquel finds many lost poems long forgotten in time. She also finds other poems in different places with various people.

      The starting point of this story is about the interest of this book main character into unclosing a mystery: Who is or who was the old house’s poet?

      Over this plot, one question we frequently ask ourselves. Are the time and the love a perfect couple or enemies? I advance that I have no answer for this question in this book, though the reader can reflect and get to their own conclusions.

      What we know is that in many cases the time can be a hope for those who seek to live a great love, that is, even if today the circumstances aren’t positive, people wait to be living a great love with intensity on the long run. Now for others, time can be negative, since if love is too late it can be suffocated or even murdered by the social standards and the people who can’t accept the fact of two individuals living their love story, forbidden or not.

      The character Raquel will take the reader to a trip into the poems found in the old house. The said poet was depending exclusively on time to be able to live the great love of his life.

      He found on the poems a way to encode his messages, his desires and to proclaim the love he felt for his beloved. He suffered with the dismissal, the distance and the circumstance. On the other hand, he found joy in hope and the fact of being loved by his other half.

      Love and time. Two words that can mean so much. Passion and poetry also stand for strength and magic. Let the love lived by the poet shows you that many times we must fight to live the passion and not leave it for later, it can be too late.

      Learn with Raquel the significance of preserving the history of old times, but above all, of keeping alive a beautiful love story!

      Antonio Marques January of 2014

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      Love is a never-ending source of reflection, deep as eternity, high as the sky, wide as the universe

      Alfred de Vigny

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      Preface

      After walking to the backyard, settling my thoughts on the shadow of a huge tree and going into a trip reading the good book Backyard Memories, first book from my friend Antonio Marques, he now says to me: Hey, look to the side, right there, at your front, close to those new thoughts, see, yeah, there’s an old house there. And in this old house there’s so many stories hidden inside the timbers occupied not only by termites.

      I feel extremely honored with the invite from Antonio Marques to write this preface. The book that is now on your hands, tell with perfection the pace of a plot stuffed with discoveries, that in their behalf, discloses unique moments of a life dedicated to dream. A dream that isn’t dreamed alone, a dream that is still concealed. Maybe inside your heart, on the letters written as a poem, or on the backyard of any house.

      If on the backyard, we remembered people and situations that in a way or another were a part of our life trajectories, now, let’s live one of those moments. It’s like time knocked on your door to say something loud and clear: Hey, raise your morale, cheer up, life goes on, you still have a lot to discover. And that was what the owner of a real estate agency decided to do.

      When Raquel, by her own choice, believed it was necessary to start a museum, attempting to preserve the memories of the residents of the small place that is Terra Nova; there’s then the meeting between the adult and the kid that was playing on the backyard.

      A curious child that as they find poems written a long time ago, also is solving a puzzle shaped as romantic poetry. People reveal themselves little by little, but that kid doesn't stop. Turns out to be crucial to build this story making all the possible connections.

      The passionate poet doesn’t only engage Raquel but also the house, his beloved, his poems, the people who live on that place, and lastly, the backyard. Once again. The same backyard that still dwells in our memories. That same backyard that can be unveiled or not; but it’s there, deep inside our furthest remembrances.

      The dream backyard withholds magical moments. It’s there where I tumbled the first time. Also, where I played ball for the first time. It’s where I received the saddest news. It’s there where I saw people I hold dearly, losing themselves. It’s there where I said goodbye but also met people whom I came to love. It’s there were I got sunburned, where I played

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