Cosmic Collect Call: Appreciate the Mystery; Poems about Life

An award-winning artist’s poetic journey of resilience, creativity and spiritual self-discovery.

Renuka Susan O’Connell, an award-wining artist, invites you on a profound and poetic voyage through life's most poignant moments. From the heart-wrenching loss of her mother on her wedding day to her spiritual journey with a guru for thirty-two years, Renuka's path is one marked by resilience, creativity, and profound self-acceptance.

In this transformative book, you will find:

• A collection of heartfelt poems and stunning paintings that will touch your soul
• A powerful message of finding grace and beauty in resilience and self-acceptance.
• Personal anecdotes from the author's own journey of self-discovery and growth
• Examples of finding beauty and forgiveness in unexpected places
• How Renuka navigated life's challenges and transmuted them into love and beauty

This book is for you if you love poetry and art and are embarking on your own journey of spiritual self-discovery

REVIEWS

"Delicate, surreal, wrenching, powerful, deep, poignant, tart, tasty, provocative… Cosmic Collect Call; Poems about Life, is a palette of many shades."

— Linda Sandel Pettit, Maxy Award Winning and Best-Selling Author of Leaning into Curves

"Through her mastery of language, brilliant use of metaphor, and ability to capture the nuance of ordinary life, Renuka Susan O'Connell weaves love and loss onto the page and into the heart of the reader."

— Jules Swales, Method Writing Teacher and Author of I want a Stonehenge Life and Declarative, 33 Statements that Changed my Life

"The poems glitter like slivers of silver in moonlight, inviting us in, granting us glimpses into the moments we don’t often reveal to one another, and leaving us, with each entry, only wanting to hear more. A beautiful collection, like brush strokes in a painting that assembled together “hold” the mystery of one human’s search to make meaning."

— Maureen Callahan Smith, Author, Grace Street: A Sister’s Memoir of Grief & Gratitude, Gray Dove Press

"I want to hold onto this feeling. I want to stay in the space that these thirty poems opened up in me. I am under their spell. Renuka Susan O’Connell’s book of poems opens an inner door, and invites us in. This slim volume of poetry will transport you. I loved this book."

— Susanna Liller, Author, Founder of The School for Real-Life Heroines

"Renuka Susan O’Connell’s poems are filled with the freshness, surprise, and oddness of being human. This bursting-with-life collection is wise, quizzical, and reminds us to notice, to be curious, to lament, to open wide our hearts to all we love, and to appreciate the mystery of all we don’t know. Fill your soul!"

— Eleanor Morse, author of White Dog Fell from the Sky and An Unexpected Forest, Independent Publisher’s Gold Medalist Award and Winner of Best Published Fiction by the Maine writers and Publishers Alliance.