978-0615139661

Have you ever been in love, had your heart broken, or felt lonely?  These feelings affect everyone at some point in their life and are often dismissed as the bumps and bruises of life.

Author, Keanna Houston takes a "uneek" look at one of the simplest forms of human emotion (love) and explores the ups and downs of love, life, relationships, and hardships and eloquently displays images of life using love as a medium.  Simple Complexity talks about everything from love to heartache to loneliness and back again.  As she takes you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions you can visually see her transformation from childhood crushes to experiencing love for the first time.

Simple Complexity is a compilation of poems written from 1993 - 2006.  These poems encompass the author's life and all of the many challenges young females face.  It is a collection of poem in which she journeys through life in an effort to find out who she is and what love means.  Many of the poems encompass the very essence of what she feels love is and her desire to love in that manner.  Though some of the poems are a young person's fantasy of love and what it should be, you can clearly see the author's development of from a young girl to a young woman.  Simple Complexity is a must have for anyone because there are pieces that can fit anyone at any stage of life from a young girl discovering herself to a young woman in search of true meaning.  Simple Complexity has something for everyone.  Whether you are looking for a good laugh, needing a good cry, looking for someone to relate to, or just looking for a good read Simple Complexity is for you.