A Tree Never Leaves before the Snow Falls

A companion to the novel Life in the Half-Life, the book is a collection of poems written by the character Lumijnfroost over a span of five hundred-plus years. Arranged in eleven themes labeled in the poet’s adopted Irish, the work covers the major aspects of modern civilisation-both the highs and lows-as observed first-hand by a well-traveled soul. Viewed holistically, this treasury of poems is a single voice of sanity out of the 108 billion souls who have ever walked the Earth. Each poem reflects the mood, language, and form of the time it was written, whether it was May 6, 1498 or November 4, 2016. The themes, however, are universal across the ages: power, inequality, intolerance, pride, love, romance, fear, worry, serenity, joy, community, blessings, birth, death, and the constant dread of aging. Collectively, the chosen poems reflect the human struggle with the temporal life on Earth against a backdrop of a future eternity. Open the book to any page and dive in. Every poem is accessible-even those with Latin titles. And no poem will take longer than two minutes and twenty-three seconds to read!