Love with Vengeance

"Love with Vengeance" is an original collection of romantic poetry by award winning singer/songwriter, poet, and author, Luke Austin Daugherty. This work, originally published in 2005, contains twenty poems. Luke's relationship with his wife, Angela, was the inspiration for this book. The small town love story "The Chronicles of Simon the Lover" is also included in this collection. It is twelve chapters long in verse form and tells the moving tale of "Simon" and "Muriel" set in 1950's America.

An excerpt from the title poem "Love with Vengeance" -

Lovers
Love with vengeance
Love as to war against
Your own frailty
Love as to seek revenge
Upon former occasions
When your love was not love
But a whim
And your passion
An impotent gesture