Fifty Confessions reveals author Paul Kiritsis's personal confessions and deepest thoughts in the form of modern, free verse poetry. For more than a decade, Kiritsis has been studying, writing about, and trying to capture the subtler, less tangible aspects of the human experience. In this collection of more than fifty poems, he displays his passion for mythology and history.

This offering, Kiritsis's third book, is arranged in six sections, which include The Ancient Enemy, Behold My Wrath, Actions and Reactions, In the Aftermath, Myths and Ruminations, and The Savage Past. The poems showcase the author's mastery of the English language. In "Shooting Star," he writes: When a little spark from the night sky / Plummets from the canopy of stars above, / Somewhere, someplace, / A being of light has been born. / So make certain you light a candle, / And make a heartfelt wish / That it never be touched by the darkness / Of what it's like to feel completely alone / In a world void / Of both heartfelt light and heaven.

With the themes of rebirth and discovery of the human spirit, the poems in this anthology concern themselves with the ancient past and represent various stages of evolution that pertain to both individual and cosmic existence.

Paul Kiritsis, author of the award-winning book Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems returns with this collection of work that unites to celebrate the wheel of life that is eternal and ever changing and to denote the passage of love. His poems demonstrate sensitivity and a complexity of meaning. In "The Anatomy of melancholia" he writes: Everything that / The skin of habit / Has come to know- / Has come to love- / Has been poisoned / / By the timely arrow; / And like the earthly serpent, / I must shed that part of me, / And emerge naked / Like a newborn infant, / Ready to be recognized by fate.

Focusing on the directions of east, west, north, and south, the themes revolve around a return to the crack of dawn-the dawn of both life and creation. It is the journey of a lifetime-perhaps many lifetimes.

Deep in the mysterious night where all is but distorted dreaming, far beyond the logical grasp of man, yet buried deep in our hearts, there lives an ancient myth instructing us in the mystical art of alchemy and magic.

"Hermetica" is an epic journey of poetic and verse drama that strives to find links between differing aspects of Egyptian mythology. As folklore was once such an embedded tradition, there was no need to record anything on papyri, even after the advent of hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing systems. As a result, an entire body of oral literature has been lost. What remains is but a small part of a potentially massive collection of unrecorded myth.

Using the ancient tools of alchemy and magic, this volume seeks to sculpt the events leading to the death, dismemberment, and resurrection of Osiris. Also included is the sequel to the popular Middle Kingdom tale, "The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor," and a dramatic interpretation of the Ptolemaic Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The accompanying poetry is a tribute to love, a pure byproduct of the alchemical process.

Delve into the realms of unexplored myth, legend, and love as viewed through the hermetical musings of modern-day alchemist and poet, Paul Kiritsis.

Fifty Confessions reveals author Paul Kiritsis's personal confessions and deepest thoughts in the form of modern, free verse poetry. For more than a decade, Kiritsis has been studying, writing about, and trying to capture the subtler, less tangible aspects of the human experience. In this collection of more than fifty poems, he displays his passion for mythology and history.

This offering, Kiritsis's third book, is arranged in six sections, which include The Ancient Enemy, Behold My Wrath, Actions and Reactions, In the Aftermath, Myths and Ruminations, and The Savage Past. The poems showcase the author's mastery of the English language. In "Shooting Star," he writes: When a little spark from the night sky / Plummets from the canopy of stars above, / Somewhere, someplace, / A being of light has been born. / So make certain you light a candle, / And make a heartfelt wish / That it never be touched by the darkness / Of what it's like to feel completely alone / In a world void / Of both heartfelt light and heaven.

With the themes of rebirth and discovery of the human spirit, the poems in this anthology concern themselves with the ancient past and represent various stages of evolution that pertain to both individual and cosmic existence.

Paul Kiritsis, author of the award-winning book Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems returns with this collection of work that unites to celebrate the wheel of life that is eternal and ever changing and to denote the passage of love. His poems demonstrate sensitivity and a complexity of meaning. In "The Anatomy of melancholia" he writes: Everything that / The skin of habit / Has come to know- / Has come to love- / Has been poisoned / / By the timely arrow; / And like the earthly serpent, / I must shed that part of me, / And emerge naked / Like a newborn infant, / Ready to be recognized by fate.

Focusing on the directions of east, west, north, and south, the themes revolve around a return to the crack of dawn-the dawn of both life and creation. It is the journey of a lifetime-perhaps many lifetimes.

Deep in the mysterious night where all is but distorted dreaming, far beyond the logical grasp of man, yet buried deep in our hearts, there lives an ancient myth instructing us in the mystical art of alchemy and magic.

"Hermetica" is an epic journey of poetic and verse drama that strives to find links between differing aspects of Egyptian mythology. As folklore was once such an embedded tradition, there was no need to record anything on papyri, even after the advent of hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing systems. As a result, an entire body of oral literature has been lost. What remains is but a small part of a potentially massive collection of unrecorded myth.

Using the ancient tools of alchemy and magic, this volume seeks to sculpt the events leading to the death, dismemberment, and resurrection of Osiris. Also included is the sequel to the popular Middle Kingdom tale, "The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor," and a dramatic interpretation of the Ptolemaic Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The accompanying poetry is a tribute to love, a pure byproduct of the alchemical process.

Delve into the realms of unexplored myth, legend, and love as viewed through the hermetical musings of modern-day alchemist and poet, Paul Kiritsis.